Konatsu Ring Box

Pop Mart is a Chinese-based designer toy company known for creating and distributing high-quality, collectible blind box figures and designer toys. While Pop Mart is technically a company, it operates with a unique artistic approach, collaborating with talented artists and designers to produce distinctive toy lines that focus on cute, whimsical, and imaginative characters. Pop Mart’s primary artistic style blends modern pop art, fantasy, and street culture into figures that appeal to a broad range of collectors. The company’s art toys are typically designed with bold colors, cute characters, and a touch of playfulness that has made them incredibly popular in both the Asian market and globally. Konatsu Koizumi is a Japanese artist and toy designer best known for her adorable yet fierce kaiju (monster) art toys, particularly her signature character, Negora—a cat-inspired kaiju. Her work blends traditional Japanese aesthetics with modern sofubi (soft vinyl) toy culture, creating highly collectible and charming figures. Her most famous creation, Negora, is a cat-like monster with a playful yet destructive personality, inspired by classic Japanese kaiju movies like Godzilla and Ultraman. Beyond Negora, she has designed other animal-based creatures like Shibara (a Shiba Inu kaiju), Pigora (a pig monster), and Daioh Negora (a larger, more powerful version of Negora). Her work has gained a strong following among sofubi collectors, kaiju fans, and designer toy enthusiasts, making Konatsu one of the most recognizable contemporary sofubi artists in Japan. Pop Mart is a Chinese toy company that sells collectible designer toys. The company is known for its "blind box" packaging, which doesn't reveal the toys inside. Pop Mart is a leader in the designer toy market and has been credited with creating the market for designer toys in China.