Chess Piece Collection

Started in 2002, Chess Piece Collection is a Megahouse series of Western chess pieces modeled after characters from popular media instead of the regular chess design. Notable Japanese TV series, which applied to the concept, are Dragon Ball, Masked Rider, the various flavors of Gundam and One Piece. But we can also find video games like Kingdom Hearts, manga authors like Clamp through the series called The Wonders of Clamp (CLAMPノキセキ, Clamp no Kiseki) or Western CG films like the Disney-Pixar.

The pieces are about 9 cm high and a set of pieces may or may not associate several models to one type of pieces, e.g. the two bishops on the same side can be represented by two different characters but it's not always the case. However, each unique piece always comes in two versions, a black stand base version and a white version.

Chess Piece Collection DX TV Anime One Piece
チェスピースコレクションＤＸ　ＴＶアニメワンピース This set represents the queen with 2 different characters (Nami and Robin) while the other types of pieces only get 1 design.
 * Release date: late October 2004
 * Price: ￥399 per piece, ￥4,788 per box of 12 pieces
 * Set content: 7 pieces + 1 secret (Robin revealing her Devil Fruit power)

Chess Piece Collection R One Piece Vol.1
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of this merchandising series, Banpresto decided to relaunch it with the popular anime series One Piece, changing the DX (Deluxe) suffix for R (Rebirth, Reborn, Return, etc.). チェスピースコレクションR ONE PIECE Vol.1
 * Release date: late April 2012
 * Price: ￥683 per piece (VAT included), ￥6,147 per box of 9 pieces (VAT included)
 * Set content: 6 pieces (Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Tony Tony Chopper)

チェスピースコレクションR ONE PIECE Vol.2
 * Release date: September 2012
 * Price: ￥851 per piece (VAT included), ￥7,659 per box of 9 pieces (VAT included)
 * Set content: 6 pieces (Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro, Nico Robin, Franky, Brook, Shirahoshi)

チェスピースコレクションR ONE PIECE Vol.3
 * Release date: February 2013
 * Price: ￥851 per piece (VAT included), ￥7,659 per box of 9 pieces (VAT included)
 * Set content: 6 pieces (Doflamingo, Mihawk, Hancock, Crocodile, Kuma, Law)

チェスピースコレクションR ONE PIECE Vol.4
 * Release date: yet unknown
 * Price: yet unknown
 * Set content: 6 pieces (Lucci, Kaku, Jabra, Kalifa, Blueno, Kumadori)