Zoro and Sanji Together on Bandai’s Ichiban Kuji Towel

One Piece Ichiban Kuji Ryoyoku Kessen F Prize Towel Collection

This towel is an F Prize from Ichiban Kuji One Piece Ryoyoku Kessen, a licensed prize lottery series produced by Bandai Spirits. Made from 100% polyester and packaged in its original transparent bag with a white tray, it belongs to a towel collection of eight designs — this one featuring Roronoa Zoro, with color elements drawn from both Zoro and Sanji.

What Ichiban Kuji Is and How the System Works

Ichiban Kuji sits in its own category among Japanese collectibles — distinct from gashapon capsule toys and shokugan food toys. Bandai Spirits, a subsidiary of the Bandai Namco group focused on collector-oriented merchandise, runs the line as a ticket-lottery system through major convenience store chains including Lawson and FamilyMart, as well as toy shops and bookstores across Japan.

Each draw costs around 800 to 900 yen, and buyers receive the prize corresponding to the ticket they pull — no blind boxes, no duplicates from a single draw. Prizes are tiered from A (typically a figure) down through several lower ranks, with a special “last one” prize reserved for the final ticket of a run. Soft goods such as towels commonly appear in the middle-to-lower prize bands. Once a Ichiban Kuji run concludes, fresh stock disappears from stores, making items available only through resellers or buyers with access to Japan’s domestic retail market.

Roronoa Zoro, the King Fight, and the Two Wings

One Piece, Eiichiro Oda’s manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1997, holds a Guinness World Record for the highest-circulation comic series by a single author, with more than 500 million copies sold as of 2023. The anime adaptation has aired continuously since 1999 and reaches audiences in more than 60 countries.

The Ryoyoku Kessen theme — “Two Wings Battle” — connects directly to the Wano Country arc, one of the longest and most ambitious storylines in the series. The “two wings” refers to Zoro on the right and Sanji on the left, the two warriors who anchor Luffy’s crew in combat, a framing used both in-universe and by the fanbase. Within this arc, Zoro’s defining fight is against King, one of the Flying Six of the Beasts Pirates and a member of the Lunarian lineage. The battle is considered Zoro’s pivotal moment in the arc: it is the confrontation in which he unlocks the full power of Enma, a sword that once belonged to the legendary Kozuki Oden.

A Design That Holds Both Characters at Once

The towel’s visual design is deliberate rather than decorative. Vertical green stripes correspond to Zoro’s signature color, while blue geometric and polka-dot elements reflect Sanji’s palette — a single item carrying both characters’ identities, which makes the two-wings concept tangible. As one of eight variants in the collection, it also fits the completionist structure that Ichiban Kuji is built around.

Zoro consistently ranks among the most recognized characters in One Piece across global fan communities, and Wano Country arc merchandise tied to major battles carries strong interest among fans who followed the storyline through both the manga and the anime, which ran its Wano chapters from 2019 through 2023. The towel functions as everyday textile and as a record of one of the arc’s most discussed character moments — a combination that appeals across different kinds of One Piece fans.