Today’s selection spans four corners of Japan’s character merchandise world — from a Pokemon metal charm to a shareholder-exclusive prepaid card featuring classic super robots. Each piece reflects a different era and format of Japanese pop-culture collecting.
Bulbasaur Pokemon Metal Charm
A small metal charm featuring Bulbasaur, one of the original starter Pokemon from the franchise that began in Japan in 1996 as Pocket Monsters. Metal charms like this were often produced as gashapon or promotional giveaways during Pokemon’s early years.
Price: $20.51 AUD | View on eBay
Cure Friendly Rubber Mascot Charm
A rubber mascot charm of Cure Friendly from Wonderful Precure, distributed as a capsule toy. Precure (Pretty Cure) is a long-running magical girl anime franchise by Toei Animation, with a new team of heroines introduced each year since 2004.
Price: $18.22 AUD | View on eBay
Great Mazinger & Getter Robo G QUO Card
A 300 yen QUO Card featuring Great Mazinger and Getter Robo G, issued as a shareholder benefit. QUO Cards are prepaid gift cards widely used in Japan at convenience stores, and themed versions are frequently sent to shareholders of Japanese companies as perks. Both robots are landmark titles in Go Nagai’s 1970s super robot anime catalog.
Price: $20.51 AUD | View on eBay
Wolf Man Pepsi Bottle Cap
A Wolf Man bottle cap figure from the “Monsters Meet Pepsi Part 2” Vol.4 promotion. Pepsi Japan ran a long series of collectible bottle cap campaigns from the late 1990s into the 2000s, with themed figures attached to drink bottles as giveaways.
Price: $10.77 GBP | View on eBay
About This Collection
These four items showcase the variety of small-format character merchandise that has long thrived in Japan: gashapon charms, capsule toys, shareholder gifts, and beverage promotions. Each format reaches collectors through a different channel, but all share the same focus on detailed, character-driven design.
