San-ei – Phoenix Wright Plush

Character Name: Phoenix Wright / Naruhodō Ryūichi
Series Name: Ace Attorney / Gyakuten Saiban
Game: unspecified
Company: San-ei Boeki
Set: San-ei Ace Attorney Plush Set – Naruhodō Ryūichi (S)
Year: 2017 (November)

In late 2017, San-ei gave us a set of four Ace Attorney plushes featuring Phoenix Wright, Maya Fey, Miles Edgeworth, and Apollo Justice. They fall into San-ei’s “small” plush size range, which tend to be around 10 inches or so high. They weren’t the first Ace Attorney plushes to hit the market, but they may be the largest, with most of the other plushes being keychain/mascot-sized plushes. As of February 2022, these plushes are fairly rare, seemingly only getting a limited run in Japan and no international release that I’m aware of. San-ei does sometimes do re-runs or international releases via Little Buddy, sometimes years after the initial plush run, but only time will tell if this set will have that fate or will remain pricey and obscure.

This was my second Phoenix plush, the first being the tiny keychain plush that was the preorder bonus for Trials and Tribulations in the US. I love me some Nick, so this much more cuddly version became a fast favorite of mine.