ガチャ

noun

capsule toy; vending machine toy

Physical toy sold in a plastic capsule from a vending machine. Originally a trademark, now widely used generically.

See also: カプセルトイ

• 駅えき前まえにガチャの機き械かいがたくさん並ならんでいる。

  There are many capsule toy machines lined up in front of the station.

• 子こどもがガチャを回まわして、小ちいさなフィギュアを出だした。

  The child turned the capsule toy machine and got a small figure.

noun

gacha; loot box; random in-game item system

In video games, a system where players spend currency to receive random virtual items, similar to capsule toy machines.

• このゲームのガチャでレアキャラを引ひくのは難むずかしい。

  It's hard to pull a rare character from this game's gacha.

• ガチャに課か金きんしすぎてしまった。

  I spent too much money on gacha.

noun, used as a suffix

lottery; something decided by chance

Colloquial suffix attached to nouns to indicate that the outcome is random or beyond one's control, as in 親ガチャ (parent lottery).

See also: 親ガチャ

• 親おやガチャに外はずれたと感かんじる若わか者ものもいる。

  Some young people feel they lost the parent lottery.

• 人じん生せいはガチャみたいなものだ。

  Life is like a gacha.