I am selling this super rare collectible Anime Japanese Kawaii art metal enamel pin. This pin is highly collectible and has been sold out everywhere. It only has a very short exclusive run through a company called Loungefly that sells in hot topic stores. They are all gone because this was a special education pin.

It is from the Japanese anime company called studio ghibli and it's of the character called My Neighbor Totoro.

This cute design is Totoro holding onto a yellow dandelion and the dandelion is glittery. I took a close up photo to show that. It is much more adorable in person than in the photos.

This is a gunmetal black metal and it is an enamel pin. I got this from a sale recently where I acquired a lot of highly collectible enamel pins with a lot of different collectible designs such as Sanrio, Kawaii, San-x, Loungefly, Star Wars, Lucas films, Hello Kitty and Disney and I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to the gigantic world of Sanrio and Japanese import Kawaii characters and also there is also a whole world of these enamel pins and pin collectors. And so this is like two really collectible worlds colliding!

I am just really getting into the idea of collecting these enamel pins myself. So i have bought some lots with several different designs and so I'm selling off duplicate designs or designed that I'm not interested in keeping for my own collection personally. So hopefully another pin collector out there will appreciate it.

This pin measures 40 mm x 35 mm.

I have some info below from a Wikipedia article about this character and how it was created. As far as I can see I can't find this for sale anywhere at all. I see that it was for sale previously but is now sold out so this it potentially the only way to get this pin anywhere.

I really love enamel jewelry of all kinds especially brooches. I think I mainly love enamel jewelry because of the fascinating way that is it made.

I love to learn all the interesting ways that artists make their works of art. So when it comes to enamel jewelry and works of art , basically the main design is made with a base metal with raised edges to create the designs and then (almost like the lines in a coloring book) the different colors are filled in within the raised metal edges. But what is so so cool is that the color that is made by enamel jewelry is made by filling in those recessed sections within the metal with different colored crushed glass and then that beautifully colored crushed glass is heated up in a kiln or jewelry soldering silversmith torch and heated up so much that the glass melts and then becomes a liquid and then that liquid fills the space within the raised metal edges!

How cool is that ?!?

I would love to learn how to make it myself. Anyway, I will add a little section of a Wikipedia article explaining it a little further (and probably a lot better than I could also). Enjoy ;)

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.

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This is from Wikipedia about this character:

My Neighbor Totoro (Japanese: となりのトトロ, Hepburn: Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten. The film—which stars the voice actors Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, and Hitoshi Takagi—tells the story of a professor's two young daughters (Satsuki and Mei) and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan.In 1989, Streamline Pictures produced an English-language dub for exclusive use on transpacific flights by Japan Airlines. Troma Films, under their 50th St. Films banner, distributed the dub of the film co-produced by Jerry Beck. This dub was released to United States theaters in 1993, on VHS and LaserDisc in the United States by Fox Video in 1994, and on DVD in 2002. The rights to this dub expired in 2004, so the film was re-released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on March 7, 2006[1] with a new dub cast. This version was also released in Australia by Madman on March 15, 2006[2] and in the UK by Optimum Releasing on March 27, 2006. This DVD release is the first version of the film in the United States to include both Japanese and English language tracks.

Exploring themes such as animism, Shinto symbology, environmentalism and the joys of rural living, My Neighbor Totoro received worldwide critical acclaim and has amassed a global cult following in the years after its release. The film has grossed over $41 million at the worldwide box office as of September 2019, in addition to generating an estimated $277 million from home video sales and $1.142 billion from licensed merchandise sales, adding up to approximately $1.46 billion in total lifetime revenue.

My Neighbor Totoro received numerous awards, including the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize, the Mainichi Film Award and Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film in 1988. It also received the Special Award at the Blue Ribbon Awards in the same year. The film is considered as one of the top animation films, ranking 41st in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010 and being the highest-ranking animated film on the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of all-time greatest films.[3][4] The film and its titular character have become cultural icons and made multiple cameo appearances in a number of Studio Ghibli films and video games. Totoro also serves as the mascot for the studio and is recognized as one of the most popular characters in Japanese animation.

The name Totoro comes from a misprononciation of the word troll (トロール, torōru) by Mei. She has seen one in a book and decides that it must be the same creature.[5]

The cat-bus comes from a Japanese belief attributing to an old cat the power of shape-shifting: he then becomes a “bakeneko”. The cat-bus is a “bakeneko” who has seen a bus and decided to become one.[5]

The following is from Wikipedia about Enamel jewelry and the art form of enamel art in general.

Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C (1,380 and 1,560 °F). The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating. The word comes from the Latin vitreum, meaning "glass".

Enamel can be used on metal, glass, ceramics, stone, or any material that will withstand the fusing temperature. In technical terms fired enamelware is an integrated layered composite of glass and another material (or more glass). The term "enamel" is most often restricted to work on metal, which is the subject of this article. Essentially the same technique used with other bases is known by different terms: on glass as enamelled glass ,or "painted glass", and on pottery it is called over glaze decoration, "overglaze enamels" or "enamelling". The craft is called "enamelling", the artists "enamellers" and the objects produced can be called "enamels".

Enamelling is an old and widely adopted technology, for most of its history mainly used in jewelry and decorative art. Since the 18th century, enamels have also been applied to many metal consumer objects

The key ingredient of vitreous enamel is finely ground glass called frit. Frit for enamelling steel is typically an alkali borosilicate glass with a thermal expansion and glass temperature suitable for coating steel. Raw materials are smelted together between 2,100 and 2,650 °F (1,150 and 1,450 °C) into a liquid glass that is directed out of the furnace and thermal shocked with either water or steel rollers into frit.