If you already havn’t taken a look at my collection, I have these Project Thunderbolt Pikachu’s that I bought for cheap, as shown below. My daughter saw them and wanted to play with them (I didn’t let her cuz I bought her a regular yellow Pikachu), so I decided to go buy another one for her to play with… Well the prices of these are ridiculous now and even for non-collectible items, I have always noticed that plushies from Japan have insane prices and do not understand why. Does anyone know the reason why they are so popular or expensive in Japan?
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Amazon Japan (Pokemon):PlushiesJapanAMZN
That company did a collaboration with Pokemon for a very limited amount of time, so those plush types are very rare and have gone up in price as a result.
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Fragment Design collabs are always very hyped (see the ones with Nike for example).
The ones you have aren’t legit, though. Not knocking you, just letting you know.
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Japan is also really into weird game shows, crazy vending machines, square watermelons, “Rent a cuddles”, elaborate toilets, raman noodle baths, cheese flavored Kit-kats, ice cream that doesn’t melt, baby crying contests, sleeping at work, crooked teeth as a fashion statement, blue traffic lights, rabbit islands, hikikomori hermits, and kawaii culture and the love of all things cute.
I think that kawaii culture might be related to the plush obsession. It’s their culture but it isn’t something that fascinates most Americans.
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