The STRANGEST Lucky Bag I Found in Japan

Joey: No one wants these bag pins! Emirichu: I would have to strongly disagree!

Pin badges are inexpensive, alternative way for fans to show love for things they like, especially for fans who are in different countries who can't afford anything beyond certain amount of money when converted into their currency (like figures, apparels, cd album, manga, etc). And there are alot of people who makes itabag out of it and hey, even Aki does! (referencing to the video of her making Kingdom Hearts itabag: "this video is simple and clean") I also saw alot of Japanese fans who bought HUNDREDS of pin badges to make an oshi shrine out of it. If you're not personally interested in pin badges, there's certainly people who collects it hence why Japan and artists in convention artist alley still keep making it.

"Nobody buys pin badges" nervously looks at my ita-bag covered in badges

Don't discount the washi tape. There's some super creative people who use it for so many different things. Planner people use it as decoration on their planner pages. I use it a lot for covering the edges of my diamond paintings. It's a thing. I've also seen a lot of Disney gatcha where the capsule turns into the dress of the princess or something. It's fun to see a gatcha gatcha! Love to see more things like this!

The 'original' Miffy was by Dick Bruna and is called Nijntje (good luck pronouncing that :) ) Her story is actually quite interesting as he tried to create his characters as simple as possible without loosing their essentials. I think he succeeded ;)

That pie reading a book is hilarious. Please do more of these!

Alright. Franky's Rhino bike was not expected - but a welcome one

Washi Tape is use to decorate and make things cute, the badges are trade amount the different fan base and collectors.

It's a good thing Joey didn't break the last one while opening it. That one was cool

How the washi tape of Doremi was a miss 😭 is a treasure

Miffy is indeed Dutch (from the Netherlands where I am from). Her original Dutch name is "Nijntje" which is probably derived from the Dutch word for bunny namely "koNIJN". If I remember correctly she was created by Dick Bruna many years ago. Dick Bruna (who lived from 1927 to 2017) came from the Dutch province Utrecht which lies in the center of the country. Utrecht has the capital city Utrecht in it (yeah, we Dutch were really creative when we named that XD), anyways in that city you can visit the Nijntje museum.

Glad something normal abt japan recently man they have been having bad luck since 2024 i hope they are okay…

The Jigokuraku keychain wasn't Sagiri, it was Touma. Still, great series and cute keychain! And an interesting concept for a lucky bag to have another element of randomness inside it. I will say that around New Year's I did at one point think of lucky bags and what videos people would be putting out about them this year, so yeah, your point about people really associating Japan and lucky bags is very true

For someone who collect pin badges of my fav char the part where u said "no one want it, stop making them" hurts bruh😭 Besides figure, keychains, phone charms, nuigurumis...pin badges are also a good merch variations btw. Because there's no fun in just collecting of your fave char with just figure on the shelf, it's a lovely addition to the background wall!!!

Okay the fact that you just got masking tape is actually hilarious. What a great thing to put in a gacha.

It's always so exciting opening these lucky bags and seeing what's inside. The concept of a gacha within a gacha is really fun and unique. Even if some of the items weren't as impressive, the anticipation and surprise definitely adds to the fun of it.

you are just too cool joey to understand how much us big nerds love pins and badges !!!

I was actually in Japan a few days ago and saw that exact fukubukuro in akiba, was tempted to buy it but decided it wasnt worth it, thanks for letting me know that my decision was a good one LOL

I love Joey just hounding pin badges and I'm here like "I-I like them"😂

From what I can tell most companies sell small goodies like pins and straps as the anime is airing and uses this as a measurement to see how much they can actually earn if they were to sell bigger products like figures and stands.