Maker directory

Banpresto

Japan

A Japanese prize-figure brand founded in 1977 as Hoei Sangyo by Yasushi Matsuda, reorganized as Coreland Technology in 1982, acquired by Bandai and renamed Banpresto in 1989, and fully dissolved as a corporate entity in February 2019. The Banpresto name continues as a brand inside Bandai Spirits, covering prize figures, Ichiban Kuji lottery products, and arcade and convenience-store prize merchandise across most major anime and game licenses. The volume-tier figure brand of the Japanese anime industry.

Brand family

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Labels

Sub-brands

Bandai Spirits4 Flag Diamond Ship

Figure families

Product lines

AGE OF HEROES Banpresto Evolve1 Banpresto Prize Figure19 Break time collection Chronicle Figure Academy CLEARISE Creator x Creator DXF2 EFFECTREME Emotional lens EXQ Figure Fig Life!