Nekomoto Pato Wins Garma Zabi Prize in 20 Draws After Her Box Sells Out Ahead of Her

INDEPENDENT — Nekomoto Pato pulled the Garma Zabi cloth she had been chasing, the Prize D of the Ichiban Kuji Mobile Suit Gundam UNIVERSAL CENTURY SAGA INTERLUDE lottery, on her sixth ticket of a 20-draw budget during a stream on Thursday. A Prize A figure followed a few tickets later. Ichiban Kuji is a prize lottery in which buyers pick tickets and each ticket is tied to a numbered prize tier, and this one was sold online and, she said, in a limited number of stores.

The stream opened with trouble on her end: her on-screen figure began to lag on her older PC, and she switched to a newer one before settling into the queue. Pato said the Garma portrait cloth was the only prize she wanted, and she joined the online line at about the 15-minute mark with two Prize D tickets left in the box. She spent roughly an hour and ten minutes waiting, checking the stock count as the line shortened. Partway through she left to fetch her wallet.

“That’s a complete victory, isn’t it?” — Nekomoto Pato, after the draw

With one person left ahead of her, the box sold out and she was dropped from the queue. She picked another box, a full lot of 70 tickets, and her turn came about ten minutes later. Pato said the site allowed up to 30 draws at once, but she kept to her plan of 20, choosing her tickets at random across the board. Her sixth ticket revealed Prize D, and Prize A turned up soon after. She also picked up a Bernie rubber strap among the smaller prizes and said she wanted to pull Prize B but did not.

She said the prizes were due to ship within about ten business days and that she would post photos when they arrive. Chat marked the pulls with messages such as “Prize A, here it comes!” and “Well, I’ll be.” Pato spent the closing stretch reading thanks for the 201 Super Chats and stickers that came in, and she said she would be back at 9 p.m. the next day.