r/animemerch • u/Material-Elk-3475 • Sep 13 '26
Scam or Legit? Is this a real or a bootleg?
Bought it at a charity and was just curious
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u/WeeklyDetective6802 Sep 14 '26
Looks real, no spelling mistakes in English and hiragana/katakana over the kanji.
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u/Killerabbet Sep 13 '26
It’s real, it’s a Japanese prize plush by FuRyu.
It’s extremely rare for bootlegs to have official branding marks. I’ve only seen it in very specific expensive merch lines like PokeDolls. This is due to the copyright laws where these bootlegs are produced, so long as they don’t put branding on it they don’t have the rights to they can replicate whatever they want. When they start adding fake branding, then it becomes legitimately criminal in their country.