The Notorious Copycat Brand That's Taking Over Asia (Miniso History)

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  • @andsan9117
    @andsan9117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    I am from Indonesia, i swear i thought Miniso is household item store counter part of Uniqlo till i saw this video😳

  • @kuyawill25
    @kuyawill25 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    And then, I saw another Miniso copycat in my Province... and it's called Usupso. They have the same logo as Miniso, their product offerings were quite the same as Miniso but under their brand. However, it's not so well known to many, I think. So, basically, I only see that as a Bootleg Version of Miniso with also Bootleg Items that is trying hard to be as Miniso.

    • @Fauzanarief-n7i
      @Fauzanarief-n7i 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it's funny that a copycat brand are being copy by another copycat brand lol

  • @akanekanesaka4892
    @akanekanesaka4892 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I like this channel, I discovered it on Spotify and listen to it while doing my chores. I was skeptical at first to watch the TH-cam content because I thought it would be badly edited but I was wrong! The videos are well made. I'll be binge watching more videos from this channel now. Please make more!

    • @BrandOrigins
      @BrandOrigins  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I appreciate this! I'm glad you like my content! Thank you!

  • @quickmix-streammusic7019
    @quickmix-streammusic7019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    how do you not have more subscribers? your content is so clean and professional. Wish you all the success!

    • @BrandOrigins
      @BrandOrigins  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha thank you so much! TH-cam just demands that I create even better content I guess lol. Cheers!

    • @jecksonfloralde
      @jecksonfloralde 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      the ads speaks...

  • @NeoSoftwarePWNXORZ
    @NeoSoftwarePWNXORZ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The Japanese Katakana gave it away for me. メイソウ is pronounced "Meisou," not "Minisou."

  • @MaharlikaAWA
    @MaharlikaAWA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Pretty much everything you buy at Daiso is made in China so why would they have tension against them?

    • @god-son-love
      @god-son-love 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's like buying fake Prada or Rolex.

  • @lalalala4730
    @lalalala4730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Different. Daiso is a real Japanese company. I buy from them alot and I see alot of things are made in Japan. While Miniso is a Chinese company pretending Japanese. The co-creator/ designer Miyaki Junya is just an actor. The Japanese translation in Miniso logo also I think is translated wrongly lol

    • @noseaj
      @noseaj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      True. The Japanese characters read as Meiso

    • @cheesepie2989
      @cheesepie2989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Daiso products are mostly made in China.

    • @rose_blue1
      @rose_blue1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How is miniso pretending to be a Japanese company, the founder is chinese! And brand designer is Japanese omg

  • @uniqloboi9800
    @uniqloboi9800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thanks man, showing us a new side of the world less of a US centered viewpoint!

  • @imesae3436
    @imesae3436 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    No wonder my Japanese students aren’t familiar with We Bare Bears. I thought it was a big deal since Miniso always have WBB themed stuff

  • @Sky28
    @Sky28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Amazing quality content, you deserve more than 100k subscribers! Keep it up!

  • @Dynastone
    @Dynastone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Miniso told me they were owned by UniQlo but focus on merchandise instead of clothes. Can't believe they'd lie to me like that.

  • @iseoes
    @iseoes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Whenever I’d go to a certain mall, I’d pass by Miniso. Ngl, some stuff from there are pretty cute. Someone gave me a pillow from that brand

  • @eys3d358
    @eys3d358 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As a chinese it offends me how foreigners or people from other countries perceive made in china stuff or chinese brands as “” low quality “” yes some are low quality but most are the highest quality you can get

    • @palindrome4737
      @palindrome4737 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In Chinese you can use TH-cam ?
      Btw hey !

    • @rose_blue1
      @rose_blue1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ikr

    • @eys3d358
      @eys3d358 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@palindrome4737 chinese people can use youtube and google whenever they want as long as they have a VPN

  • @scentedpapers6569
    @scentedpapers6569 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hey!! I just discovered your channel today, and I love love love your format of videos, maybe because its similar to Company Man, but with brands I have encountered and relate to. On Miniso tho, haha..i fell for their marketing but i mainly ever go there to buy their stuffed toys but this was interesting news to hear...you should def do the Mumuso episode!

    • @imd123
      @imd123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, a Mumuso episode pls ❤️

  • @龙龙-o5u
    @龙龙-o5u 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Unfortunately, Minoso's products are quite expensive in Bangladesh🇧🇩, and the company portrays itself as a luxury brand.

  • @WhatsThisOwO
    @WhatsThisOwO 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow, I didn't know Miniso is a copy of Uniqlo, since they sell different stuff

    • @michaelgamas2399
      @michaelgamas2399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      it's a combination copy of Uniqlo (physical store aesthetics) and Muji (items being sold), both Japanese brands.

  • @ВетерИндиго-э9к
    @ВетерИндиго-э9к 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Miniso is represented in Ukraine, and Uniqlo -- not, so while first time seeing uniqlo being abroad i said: 'Wow, is that a chinese copy of Miniso?'

  • @cenen7021
    @cenen7021 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Here in TÜRKİYE there is only MINISO and my ex were loving garbage sold there. There was a HUUUUUGE discount on their marvell licenced phone cases and i bought shitloads of cases and screen protectors hahaha

  • @joyraahserrano4352
    @joyraahserrano4352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Got my college friends Christmas gifts from Miniso last year. Guess i’ll try Uniso and Yubiso this time. Thanks, Brand Origins!

  • @markanthonydavis7905
    @markanthonydavis7905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Great Content! How about history of Puregold?

    • @BrandOrigins
      @BrandOrigins  3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you so much, Mark! Actually added Puregold to my list of brands to be covered. Their story is pretty good. Let's see if I can cover them soon 😊

  • @kelvingatioan6067
    @kelvingatioan6067 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lots of cool business facts from your episodes. My perception of Miniso totally changed 🤣

  • @olive3723
    @olive3723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    some of the stuff at miniso are so cute tho

  • @buzzy_bee4938
    @buzzy_bee4938 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yes a affordable shop NO EVERYTHING IS MINISO IS SO EXPENSIVE 😭😭😭

  • @Macbasil
    @Macbasil 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Uniqlo, Daiso, or Muji are basically a mini mall inside a huge mall where like anything they have it all.

  • @wonderman7788
    @wonderman7788 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Copycat culture is being cycled in Asia. that's why advanced countries are so furious about their intellectual property issues😌

  • @Thisworldisagoner
    @Thisworldisagoner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Here in India, we have other similar chain stores called Mumuso and Usupso. There might be a few more but I can't remember their names

    • @핫산-z9o
      @핫산-z9o 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mumuso is a chinese brand. Not korean company. And product too. They are all chinese.

    • @Thisworldisagoner
      @Thisworldisagoner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@핫산-z9o who is talking anything about Korean brands? We all know they are all chinese brands

  • @azrulhakim6356
    @azrulhakim6356 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The irony is that now it is forced to abandon it's Japanese styling due to strong Chinese nationalism

  • @TitoTimTravels
    @TitoTimTravels 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The best power bank I own is from Miniso. I don't care where they come from, as long as they are good. 😎

    • @hellchemical
      @hellchemical 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nah I also had their power bank , it just last for 2 years

  • @czarpayatot
    @czarpayatot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    no one will talk about the katakana that reads "meisou" and not "miniso"?

    • @marcomartinez1843
      @marcomartinez1843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought I was the only one who noticed the Japanese typo; that was one of the red signs, pun intended, that they're not Japanese as a whole.

  • @Versatech17
    @Versatech17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hoyoma and Mitsushi too (these are power tool brands). I don't think they are from Japan cause they are too low quality from the standards

  • @jaycecross4110
    @jaycecross4110 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you cover Chinese brands pretending to be Japanese like Fujidenzo?

  • @vaez5167
    @vaez5167 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You earn a new subcriber sir, I'm starting to binge all of your video make more haha...

  • @Versatech17
    @Versatech17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Miniso in my opinion is the new Cdr-King😆

  • @cathya7045
    @cathya7045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Not southeast Asia Dominican over here who found that about this brand visiting family honestly I just loved their stuffed animals and the chibi marvel stuff wish we had one closer to me though

  • @yogadarmawan3051
    @yogadarmawan3051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Why not work in Japan? Because the prunonciation is wrong, the tranlation in katakana word is "meiso" not actually "miniso". Typical Chinese copycat

    • @rose_blue1
      @rose_blue1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ?

  • @itsrexee
    @itsrexee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I've been purchasing miniso products since 2018 and their products are improving well. :)

  • @ginoramos5828
    @ginoramos5828 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No wonder why the headphones always break

    • @LarisB
      @LarisB 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah. I got a pair of Miniso earphones on Christmas day and I KID YOU NOT it started bugging and eventually giving up LESS THAN A MONTH later.

  • @oriorio2267
    @oriorio2267 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    jokes on you, i am going to a miniso store because uniqlo is not in my country😜

  • @NSAwatchesME
    @NSAwatchesME 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I thought miniso was owned by uniqlo

  • @aoikira5951
    @aoikira5951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm a simple person
    I see miniso, i click

  • @abraham-tl7gv
    @abraham-tl7gv 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    and i think its related to Viente because they look the same store only Viente is selling their products on 20 pesoses...

  • @vsen7
    @vsen7 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I searched miniso bad.
    Why is this not trending?
    I see all these ppl doing videos on miniso haul lately.
    Whatever their product is, it's always mentioned made in China. Yet ppl feel they're buying authentic kawaii product.

  • @AniVan1R
    @AniVan1R 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I LOVE Miniso. I have almost everything and it's incredibly addictive. Everyone in Latinamerica loves Miniso. It's cheap and has incredibly useful and good quality items.

  • @PatrickMiguel
    @PatrickMiguel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very Nice video Brother!:)

  • @gilberttello08
    @gilberttello08 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Boss hinde ka na nag upload ng mga bagong videos mo. Ganda pa naman ng mga contents mo.

  • @MaharlikaAWA
    @MaharlikaAWA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why would you buy a container for medications/vitamins? That is for old people dude. I mean what would make you think "Oh cool interesting I should get this!" I mean wouldn't you rather buy a cup or something?

  • @butch8849
    @butch8849 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:39 I think cherry mobile does the same with private labelling?

  • @jouseignkiefer4271
    @jouseignkiefer4271 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    MUMUSO, YUN NAKAILANG PASOK NA KO WALA PA RIN TALAGA AKO MABILI HANGGANG NGAYON✌️😅

  • @1stPrinciples455
    @1stPrinciples455 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If money is your measure of success, being called copycat does not bother you

  • @wolyarang
    @wolyarang 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i bought some items from miniso but didna have a very good quality. the item broke in less than 6mos.

  • @Cheeseyu3000
    @Cheeseyu3000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    now, about usupso...

  • @tuapuikia
    @tuapuikia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I prefer Daiso store. Miniso is clone of Uniqlo + Daiso 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @fearmkultra445
    @fearmkultra445 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I work at Hollywood Miniso

  • @connine
    @connine ปีที่แล้ว

    I think they were just copying the logo not the products though

  • @yoGi0028
    @yoGi0028 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    we have a uniqlo and a miniso in the same mall here in SM Pampanga lol..

  • @SiRasputin
    @SiRasputin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think the overall perception of Chinese brands might be changing. Think of huawei and especially DJI. It is the only teusted brand when it comes to consumer drones. But many other Chinese tech products will become synonymous with quality - particularly their EVs like BYD, Neo, Xpeng and others. I remember my dad telling me that in the 50s and 60s, Japanese brands were considered inferior in the West. China is at the same stage now. I think it's also incorrect to say that miniso simply consolidates products from factories and sells them. They would have significant input into the design and types of products they want. It's actually a great model and they sell things that ppl want. Using Japanese branding is not a quality mask, I think it's more about appealing to pop culture. In any case, I'm a big fan of their shops. On the broader point of Chinese branding, I actually think we're now on the cusp of a new era where Chinese tech products will be viewed as cutting edge, as they already have achieved in drones.

  • @Enzo-wl9wv
    @Enzo-wl9wv 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    we even tought mumuso was miniso even the name i tought we saw miniso Hhaha

  • @daravikki
    @daravikki 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Literally there many other brands that copy MINISO, eg "MUNUSO"

  • @sulationyang3437
    @sulationyang3437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    UNIQLO sells clothes, MINISO sells commodities, how to say it is copycat?

    • @queenie2668
      @queenie2668 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Miniso copied the commodities business of Muji/Daiso and copied the logo of Uniqlo.

  • @jasperocampo8771
    @jasperocampo8771 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Xiaomi And Apple

  • @xdvbgk45
    @xdvbgk45 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Miniso has lots of stores in Chile. Good quality products and fun experience overall. At least here, everyone knows it's a Chinese company, they mention it everywhere.

  • @mathuang95
    @mathuang95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love Mini-So!

  • @daffodil9752
    @daffodil9752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    it's from china???????????????????? tru tho, why do I always assume miniso is from Japan

    • @queenie2668
      @queenie2668 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      because its logo is in Japanese which is misleading

  • @ItsMeRaffy
    @ItsMeRaffy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So that's why all their products are made in China. It's kinda weird for a self-proclaim "Japanese" brand have products made by China. But to be fair, their products are great and very aesthetic.

    • @kutter_ttl6786
      @kutter_ttl6786 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even Daiso has a lot of their products made in China. When your market is the discount segment it's pretty much a given you'll need to make it in China.

  • @_elifilen
    @_elifilen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    We have it in Morocco lol

  • @xioniyxz
    @xioniyxz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    TIL Chinese company pala to akala ko din Japanese, to be fair tho matibay earphones ng miniso for 300php mag 2 years na sakin

  • @whippedcreaam
    @whippedcreaam 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like miniso even it’s a copycat eh- cuz everything is pretty and cute eh lol-

  • @sara.cbc92
    @sara.cbc92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Co-owner is Japanese. So what's wrong?

    • @ferryansetyadi7192
      @ferryansetyadi7192 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just hired actor

    • @rose_blue1
      @rose_blue1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ferryansetyadi7192 how? The brand designer is japanese

  • @kelvinchan3981
    @kelvinchan3981 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    All rubbish company 👎👎👎👎

    • @rose_blue1
      @rose_blue1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wrong

  • @vphoenix5278
    @vphoenix5278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Blahhh. Blahhh blahhh....bad english

  • @supersucks
    @supersucks 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s funny reading 10:15 DOMESKY because if you read the Korean letters it reads as SI-KA-I-MA-TI or skymat (스카이마트) and not Domesky

  • @gingerpants-1
    @gingerpants-1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:10 the unknown Japanese designer. yes..