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Katamari Damacy Figures: The King of All Cosmos and the Prince
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Katamari Damacy is one of the strangest and most loved games of its generation. You play a tiny prince who rolls a sticky ball around the world, picking up everything in his path until the ball is big enough to become a star. It sounds simple. It is also funny, colourful and hard to put down.
Its two main characters have now made the jump from the screen to the shelf. This article explains who they are, why the game still has such a loyal following and which Katamari collectibles you can order.
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The story in one paragraph
The King of All Cosmos is the ruler of the universe. After a night of heavy drinking he accidentally wipes out the stars in the sky, the Moon included. Rather than fix it himself, he sends his son, the Prince, down to Earth to do it for him. The Prince is only 5 cm tall. His tool is the katamari, a ball that sticks to anything smaller than itself. Each katamari he rolls up is launched into space to become a new star.
How the game plays
Every level starts small. At first the katamari can only pick up tiny things like drawing pins, sweets and dice. As it grows it collects shoes, cats and furniture, then people, cars and buildings. By the end of the game the Prince is rolling up whole towns.
That sense of scale is the heart of the game. The things that blocked your way a minute ago become things you roll over. The controls take a little getting used to, since you steer the ball with both sticks like a tank, but the loop of growing bigger is instantly satisfying.
The King of All Cosmos
The King is the reason many people remember the game. He is enormous, with a huge crown, a long neck and a flowing cape. His comments on the Prince's work are vain, rude and very funny. A katamari that is not big enough earns a lecture. A good one earns grudging praise.
He is a terrible father in the most cheerful way possible. That mix of grandeur and silliness is exactly what makes him such a good subject for a large statue.
The Prince
The Prince is the quiet half of the double act. He has a wide, flat head shaped a little like a hammer, a green outfit and no lines at all. He just rolls. His small size is the point: everything in the world towers over him at the start of a level, which is what makes rolling up a skyscraper feel like such an achievement.
Where Katamari Damacy came from
Namco released Katamari Damacy on the PlayStation 2 in Japan in 2004, with a North American release later the same year. It was created by Keita Takahashi. The title roughly translates as "clump spirit".
It became a cult hit thanks to its art style, its humour and a soundtrack that mixes jazz, J-pop and lounge music. Sequels followed, starting with We Love Katamari.
Bandai Namco has since brought the series to modern systems. Katamari Damacy REROLL arrived in 2018, followed by We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie in 2023. A new game, Once Upon a Katamari, came out in 2025 and arrived on Nintendo Switch 2 in October 2026.
Katamari collectibles
Prime 1 Studio A-SYMBOL statues
A-SYMBOL is a new figure series from Prime 1 Studio and its first two releases are the King and the Prince. Prime 1 lists both as soft vinyl, PVC and ABS, with a fabric cape on the King and magnets in the Prince's katamari.
The King of All Cosmos stands about 51 cm tall. Prime 1 lists him as non-scale, so he isn't sculpted to a fixed ratio of his size in the game. He wears a tailored fabric cape and comes with two swappable heads (normal and smiling) plus a support stand. Prime 1 has also sculpted detail on his back that you rarely see on screen. He includes a special head part with a Cool Mask for the Prince, which fits the Prince statue sold separately.
The Prince is 1/1 scale, according to Prime 1: the Prince himself is 5 cm tall, the same as his height in the game. The complete display with his katamari measures about 15 cm. He comes with two swappable heads (normal and whistling) and a stand. The katamari has magnets built into its bumps, so you can attach the three included objects (an eraser, a roll of film and a soy sauce packet) or small metal items of your own.
The two statues work well on their own or side by side, as in Prime 1's photo above. They aren't made to the same scale, though: the King is non-scale and the Prince is life-size. Both are available to preorder now. Each product page shows the price, the payment options and the estimated arrival.
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