Gashapon capsules Japanese schoolgirls at gashapon Gashapon (ガシャポン), also called gachapon (ガチャポン), is a kind of vending machine -dispensed capsule toy manufactured and sold by Bandai. It originated in the 1960s and is popular in Japan. [1] The word Gashapon, a Bandai trademark, is onomatopoeic from two sounds, gasha (or gacha) for the hand-cranking action of a toy-vending ...