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Bring a signed license or a design brief. Takara delivers finished, shelf-ready merchandise through vetted partner factories in Vietnam.
Brands and programs Takara has made for
Takara began as a small e-commerce team in Ho Chi Minh City in 2013. Today it is the creative-manufacturing partner behind merchandise people love: designed in-house, produced through a vetted partner-factory network, delivered on schedule, sometimes a month early.
Read our storyThe people who own stories, and the people who put them on shelves: licensors like The Pokémon Company and Tagger, US retail programs like ThreeSixty Group, film studios like Galaxy Cinema, and corporate teams like Keppel Land.
02 · WHAT WE BUILD & SOURCING VERTICALS
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Good afternoon, Jamie
Sunday, 27 September 2026
Today
Approvals and sign-offs due today
Blind-box sample, round 2
Sample approval Moonrise figure series
Today, 4:00 PM
Sign off plush QC report
QC report Harbour Café mascot
Today
Needs attention
Blocking production until resolved
Confirm Pantone swatches
Colour approval Hana Tea gift set
Yesterday, 1 day late
Active orders
Every order in production, across all your projects
Vinyl figure series, 5 SKUs
Mass production Moonrise Studio
Pantone swatch confirmation
Yesterday, overdue Hana Tea gift set
Plush mascot, 2 sizes
Tue, 30 Sep Harbour Café
Corporate gift box, 1,200 sets
Mon, 6 Oct Lumi Toys
In 2013 we were a small e-commerce team in Saigon. Everything since, we learned one order at a time.
Takara.vn. About 500 orders a day, every one of them organic.
Pokémon, under our own Mirako brand, in 230+ stores across Vietnam.
OEM for Tagger on Doraemon, Shin-chan and One Piece.
Won ThreeSixty Group's Vietnam sourcing in Shanghai.
Plush dolls delivered to Walmart, Target and other US retailers.
Rohto, Galaxy Cinema, Keppel Land, WTC. 23,400 plush for Rohto, delivered 25 days early.
Takara holds no certifications itself. Its job is to find and vet partner factories that do, against the same four criteria, before any work is assigned.
How the line controls materials, workmanship and inspection before goods leave.
Working conditions, wages and safety, checked against recognised social audits.
Waste, chemicals and energy practice at the facility.
Capacity, subcontracting and IP handling, so your artwork stays on the assigned line.
Standards held by partner factories and labs in the network
Start with a sketch, a signed license or a deadline. Takara comes back with a plan, a sample schedule and pricing.
Something else? Ask Takara directly.
Plush and soft goods start at 500 pieces per design for Vietnam, and 1,000 per design for export. Ready-made OEM catalogue patterns start at 500 pieces and can be mixed across designs. Molded figures and blind boxes start at 3,000 pieces to cover tooling. Corporate gift sets start at 100 to 300 sets.
A typical sample takes about 10 days and mass production about 30 days, depending on the product and quantity. For Rohto’s blind-box launch, R1 samples of the first 3 designs came in 7 days and 23,400 units were delivered 25 days ahead of contract.
No. Takara is a creative-manufacturing partner: it designs, samples and manages production through a network of vetted partner factories in Vietnam and China, each audited on quality, labor, environment and production integrity before work is assigned.
An NDA is signed before any artwork, 3D file or style guide changes hands, and production runs only at the assigned partner factory. Takara has produced licensed merchandise for The Pokémon Company and for Tagger, the master licensee of Doraemon, Shin-chan and One Piece in Vietnam.
Partner factories produce to international toy-safety standards such as EN71 and ASTM F963, and hold audits such as BSCI, SMETA or FAMA. Lab testing for your destination market is arranged through accredited labs.
Payment terms are set in each contract and tailored to the order, typically a deposit to start production and the balance before handover. Delivery follows Incoterms 2020 as agreed: EXW, FOB, CIF or DDP.
Mira is AI and may be wrong. Quotes come from the Takara team.
