Today’s spotlight: the Omitsu B-Club garage kit from the early 1990s.

B-Club was Bandai’s line of garage/resin kits, designed for hardcore hobbyists who enjoyed building and painting figures from scratch. Unlike mass-produced toys, these came as unpainted resin parts with instructions — making them both a challenge and a rare collectible today.

• B-Club was a hobby / modeling “house magazine” and subdivision of Bandai focused on garage kits, resin cast parts, and enthusiast modeling content.

• It launched in November 1985 and ran until 1998, printing a total 148 issues.

• In its early years, B-Club emphasized scratch builds, conversions, dioramas, reader submissions, and new resin kits (often as upgrades or add-ons to existing Bandai/plastic kits).

• Over time, it broadened into general anime, manga features, and promotional content, as modeling became more niche.

• B-Club also operated a physical B-Club Shop in Shibuya (opened circa 1989), which served as a retail and event space for garage kits and Bandai hobby merch until it closed in the late ’90s.

• After ceasing publication, many of its staff and spirit continued into Dengeki Hobby and Bandai’s newer hobby divisions.

This particular kit features Omitsu, the sweet and slightly ditzy tea-shop owner. She’s not a character who typically gets merchandise — which makes this kit especially unique among Samurai Pizza Cats collectibles.

A lot of other Tatsunoko-sanctioned garage kits have been made by artists over the years, but they’re hard to find. Only a handful of kits (B-club or otherwise) were made for the series, but Omitsu’s stands out because of how little official merchandise she’s ever received.