San-X to Release New Character Merchandise Like Big Dolls

San-X will release new products in its San-X Character Series line of merchandise that includes Tarepanda, Afro Ken, Nyan Nyan Nyanko, and Kogepan some time in April 2025. Prices will start from 550 JPY ($3.75). [Thanks, Game Watch!]

You’ll be able to get five different kinds of San X merchandise, all of which feature Kogepan, Tarepanda, Afro Ken, and Nyan Nyan Nyanko. Items include notebooks, miracle stickers, acrylic keychains, clear pouches, and huggable dolls. These huggable dolls cost 4,180 JPY ($28.45) each, and are five times larger than the dolls that San-X released in October 2024.

Here are some pictures of these products:

As a note, miracle stickers look different depending on what angle you’re viewing it from. For the Kogepan sticker, for example, you can make it look like Kogepan is getting pulled off the tray along with another bread friend if you move your body or head.

San-X is a stationery company that selling character goods in 1995 with the release of Tarepanda. Since then, it’s come up with a multitude of mascots for its stationery items. You can also get dolls and toys of these mascots from gachapon machines, play video games featuring them, or see them on other items like weight scales. Aside from the above four mascots, San-X also created the immensely popular Rilakkuma and Sumikko Gurashi mascots.

The new line of San-X character goods will appear in stores in Japan from late April 2025.