Ansony: In Too Deep

By Matt Alt and Robert Duban

As a collector, you’ve got to be pretty far gone to care about a company as minor as Ansony. Or is that “in too deep?” Whatever the case, only a handful of the many, many toys this surprisingly prolific company made would appeal to the average ToyboxDX reader. Still, catalog them we must.Ansony sold characters toys for a wide variety of television shows, comic books, and films. Ultraman. Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro. Gatchaman. Kamen Rider. Doraemon. Tetsujin 28. And perhaps least known to American fans, Makoto-Chan, the sophomoric, scatological humor-fest by manga master Umezu Kazuo. Their products run the gamut from bottom-of-the-barrel cheap toys to fairly intricate lithographed tin “walkers” and giant-sized dolls. The vast majority of Ansony’s toys would barely trip the radar of a toy robot collector, but a handful deserve special mention.

The list below represents but a small fraction of the many toys this company produced. Ansony die-hards should also be on the lookout for Doraemon plush toys, Sun Vulcan masks, and “pistol” toys branded with a variety of characters, including Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and Doraemon (!).For more information about Ansony, see also Tom Franck’s article on “talkers” in issue #9 of “Super 7 Magazine.”