Colorful boxes line the store shelves. Cute characters smile with sweet eyes, begging to be ripped off the shelves and ...

Blind boxes are the latest Asian trend to sweep through ... Barnes and Noble started stocking “cuter” Japanese characters, including cartoon egg Gudetama and Studio Ghibli anime.

Yang, a Beijing resident born in the 1990s, often meets her friends at various shopping malls after work or on weekends. Besides dining out, she and her companions are avid visitors of stores that ...