Akatsuki Figures: A Collector’s Guide to All 10 Members
The Akatsuki are the reason half of us started collecting Naruto figures in the first place. Ten rogue ninja, red clouds on black robes, each one a walking argument for buying a bigger shelf. Here’s the full lineup in collectible form, which ones are genuinely hard to get, and how to end up with all ten without gambling your way there.
The full lineup, one by one
Pain
The face of the organization and usually the first figure people reach for. The Rinnegan is the detail that makes or breaks a Pain figure — the concentric rings need to be sculpted and painted cleanly, not printed flat. Displayed front and centre, he anchors the whole shelf.
Itachi Uchiha
The most requested Akatsuki member, full stop. Itachi sells out faster than anyone else in the lineup, in every series we have ever run. If you are building the set piece by piece, get him early rather than last.
Konan
The Angel of the Akatsuki, and the only woman in the organization. Her paper flower and blue hair make her the visual outlier on a shelf of dark robes, which is exactly why she is worth having — she breaks up the row.
Kisame Hoshigaki
The Monster of the Hidden Mist, and the figure that lives or dies by Samehada. A good Kisame gives the sword real texture; a bad one gives you a blue stick. Pairs naturally with Itachi, since they were partners.
Deidara
Art is an explosion, and Deidara is the most animated sculpt in the group — the palm mouths and the scope over one eye give a figure plenty to work with. Popular with people who otherwise do not collect villains.
Sasori
The puppet master of the Red Sand. Depending on the series you collect, Sasori shows up either in his Hiruko shell or in his true form; the true form is the more striking display piece.
Hidan
The immortal Jashinist with the triple-bladed scythe. Half of Hidan’s appeal is that scythe, which means it is also the part most likely to be simplified in a cheap figure. Worth checking before you buy.
Kakuzu
The bounty hunter with five hearts and a face full of stitches. On his own he is a solid figure; next to Hidan he is half of the Zombie Combo, and the pair is the best two-figure grouping in the entire organization.
Obito Uchiha
The one behind everything, depending on which arc you are counting from. The orange spiral mask is instantly readable across a room, which makes him one of the strongest silhouettes on a shelf.
Zetsu
The split black-and-white body makes Zetsu the most unusual sculpt in the lineup and the one collectors most often skip. He is also the one that makes a completed set look complete — leave him out and the gap shows.
Which ones are actually hard to get?
Three tiers, roughly:
- Sells out first: Itachi, Pain, Obito. Character popularity, not manufactured scarcity.
- Middle of the pack: Deidara, Kisame, Konan, Sasori. Usually available for the length of a run.
- Chase pulls: secret figures like the Nagato Super Secret, which appear at a much lower rate than the standard lineup. These are the ones people trade for.
A secret or chase figure is not a marketing word for “expensive”. It means the figure is packed at a lower ratio than the rest of the series, so pulling one from a sealed box is genuinely uncommon.
Blind box or full set?
Both approaches are legitimate and they suit different people.
Blind boxes are for the ritual. The peel, the weight of the sealed bag, the moment before you know. If the unboxing is the part you enjoy, buying one at a time is the right call — just accept that duplicates are part of the deal when you are drawing from a ten-figure pool.
Full sets are for the shelf. If your goal is all ten in a row by the end of the month, a guaranteed set gets you there in one order, with no duplicates and no second purchases to fill gaps. It usually works out cheaper per figure than reaching completion through blind boxes.
A reasonable middle path: buy the full set for completeness, then buy the occasional blind box afterwards purely for the unboxing.
Displaying the organization
A few things that make a ten-figure lineup look intentional rather than crowded:
- Group by partnership. The Akatsuki worked in pairs — Itachi with Kisame, Hidan with Kakuzu, Deidara with Sasori. Displaying them that way tells the story instead of just filling a row.
- Give Pain the centre. Leadership reads visually. Put him slightly forward of the line and the arrangement gains a focal point.
- Light from the front, not above. Overhead light drops the faces into shadow, and faces are what you paid for.
- Keep them out of direct sun. Reds fade first, and the Akatsuki are mostly red clouds.
For the full shelf-arrangement version of this, see our guide on how to display anime figures.
Where to start
If you want the whole organization guaranteed, the POP MART Akatsuki collection has both the individual figures and the complete ten-figure set. If you would rather chase them one at a time, the blind box from the same series is the way in.
And if it is the Naruto side of the roster you are after rather than the villains, the Hidden Leaf Legends Vol. 3 drop covers the Leaf.
