Banpresto The Apothecary Diaries figures

What is on the The Apothecary Diaries shelf

The The Apothecary Diaries cabinets sit here: Banpresto figures for one licence, one shelf, nothing held back. The lines represented are Sofvimates, Break Time Collection and Espresto. The line badge matters more than the box art — it tells you the size bracket, the finish and roughly what a piece will cost before you look at the number.

Prices on this shelf run $30 to $45. The cheapest thing standing here is Maomao - Moon Fairy; the dearest is Maomao, and the gap between them is almost entirely height and paint passes rather than licence fees. Listed heights start around 5.1 in and reach 9.1 in.

By count this is the 28th shelf in the hall; the deepest is One Piece with 176 collectable figures on it, and the balance between them is simply how many waves Banpresto has run for each licence.

Banpresto figures on this shelf, line by line

Banpresto splits its output into lines, and this shelf draws on 3 of them. The count beside each one is how many The Apothecary Diaries figures we currently track in it.

• Sofvimates — 2 figures on this shelf
• Break Time Collection — 1 figure on this shelf
• Espresto — 1 figure on this shelf

Dragon Ball is the licence Banpresto has run longest, and the Dragon Ball shelf holds 115 figures against 12 here. If the brand is new to you, a Dragon Ball piece is the cheapest way to learn what a Banpresto sculpt feels like in the hand before you commit to a The Apothecary Diaries one.

How long these stay available

None of these are open editions. Banpresto makes a run, ships it to arcade operators and retailers, and moves on to the next wave. What sits on this shelf is what is still circulating, which is why the same sculpt can be ordinary one month and awkward to find the next.

• No fresh wave announced for the series in over a year
• Only third-party sellers left holding the listing
• A price that drifts upward week to week instead of down

What owners report

Scores on the The Apothecary Diaries figures here average about 4.6 out of five across the listings they came from. Reviews quoted on a figure's own page are reproduced word for word, so read a couple before you commit. What comes up again and again:

• Face printing — photographed proudly when it lands, and the first thing flagged when it does not
• The moulded base, which clips rather than screws
• The outer box, which travels better than people expect