thumb| capsules thumb|Japanese schoolgirls at gashapon , also called , is a kind of vending machine-dispensed capsule toy manufactured and sold by Bandai. It originated in the 1960s and is popular in Japan.
thumb| capsules thumb|Japanese schoolgirls at gashapon , also called , is a kind of vending machine-dispensed capsule toy manufactured and sold by Bandai. It originated in the 1960s and is popular in Japan.
The word , a Bandai trademark, is onomatopoeic from two sounds, gasha (or gacha) for the hand-cranking action of a toy-vending machine, and pon for the toy capsule landing in the collection tray. is used for both the machines themselves and the toys obtained from them.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).