However, Shanghai police has just dealt a massive blow to bootleg anime companies, as they conducted a massive raid against a large-scale pirated figure factory.
China may be known for producing bootleg products, from shoes to medicine to anime figures.
There, they seized 4.5 billion yen/300 million yuan worth of pirated anime figures.
Among those seized are unlicensed copies of various Japanese figures, such as One Piece, Pokemon, Marvel, and Hatsune Miku.