For some bizarre and unknown reason, I'd never heard of the 'fukubukuro', mystery bags that are a popular tradition with Japanese retailers around the New Year, until this year! Out of curiosity my partner and I decided to go halves and get one from one of the most popular online stores of Japanese novelty goods, J-List.
We picked the 'Anime Toy 2' fukubukuro which, including shipping, set us back about £60 between us. Sure enough, it arrived and we quickly delved in to see what treasures might await us! In total, we got:
- A Studio Ghibli 80 piece jigsaw puzzle and frame based on Laputa: Castle in the Sky
- A Monster Hunter cat mascot charm strap
- Two Petit Nendoroids from Toaru Kagaku no Railgun
- A rubber charm strap from Toaru Kagaku no Railgun
- A Hello Kitty china figure
- An Evangelion D-Grip pen
- Two MobileFortune Gundam models
- A Leiji Matsumoto Arms Selection model
- A Pokemon Black and White Gashapon
- AStar Wars spaceship model
- A Tutor Hitman Reborn! Calendario 2012 pencil board, folder and sticker set
- A strange stress ball
- A One Piece jigsaw puzzle that actually has 150 pieces...
- A Yoshimoto trading figure
- A Hades Project Zeorymer trading figure
- An Ultraman trading figure
- A Kamen Rider Spirits trading figure
- A very large and terrifying Meiji money box
Being a fukubukuro and being J-List, we also get a traditional lucky bag and anime eye shades. There wasn't as much stuff that we liked as we hoped there might be, but it was fun getting it and opening it. To make up for any disappointment, anything that we don't want can easily be sold on! It is a mystery bag after all, so the morale we learnt from this is: expect the unexpected!
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