In the Japanese language a “gacha” is a capsule-toy from a vending machine. These capsule vending machines originated in the U.S., but today I think they are a lot more popular in Japan than in the U.S. The gacha made by Bandai is called “gashapon”, and people loosely call a capsule-toy in general “gashapon”, “gachapon”, “gacha”, “gacha gacha”, etc. A gacha is well-known in many countries because its capsules contain familiar character figures from anime and movies.
