Hirono has always lived in the emotional in-between — between feeling and not feeling, between belonging and wandering. With the Mistwalker series, artist Lang pushes that liminal quality further than any previous series. These are not cozy little characters to hang on a backpack. These are mythological archetypes dressed in the softest plush you have ever touched, and they carry a weight that stays with you long after you open the blind box.
Into the Mist
The Mistwalker series extends Hirono's mythology into a darker, more archetypal register than anything that has come before. Where the Road Journal series put Hirono on a travel adventure and the Freedom Island series set him against the sea, Mistwalker places him in the kind of world that exists between sleeping and waking — a fog-shrouded mythology of believers and wanderers, angels and dragons, watchers in the night and shadows that move on their own.
Artist Lang — Pop Mart co-founder and Hirono's creator, born in Luoyang, Henan province, who moved to Beijing in 2010 and became Pop Mart's Art Director by 2011 — has spoken about drawing on a deep well of literature, folklore, and personal emotion for the character. Mistwalker feels like that personal mythology at full depth: six figures that represent emotional and spiritual archetypes more than characters in a story.
The plush construction gives these philosophical concepts an unexpected gentleness — soft, pendant-sized pieces you can clip to a bag or hang on a shelf. That tension between the darkness of the concept and the warmth of the material is exactly the Hirono paradox. You feel something holding them that you cannot quite name.
Meet the Mistwalkers
House of the Dragon Season 3 Premieres June 21
Rhaenyra. Daemon. The Dance of the Dragons. House of the Dragon Season 3 arrives on HBO and HBO Max on June 21, 2026 — eight episodes through August 9 — and the Hirono Mistwalker series arrives at the exact same cultural moment. The Soul Corroder's full dragon costume in gold and deep red, and the Unfallen Wing's dark wings and horns, are the most perfectly timed collector pieces of the season. If you're watching the Dance of Dragons unfold on screen every Sunday night, these are the companions for your shelf.
Two Dragons in the Mist
The Soul Corroder
Gold horns. Red face. Teal-grey dragon body with a golden chest. Bat wings spreading from behind the hood. The more ancient of the two dragons — a creature that predates the mist it walks through. In the Hirono universe, it is your guide when the path disappears. In the dragon universe, it is the dragon that chose not to be ridden.
The Unfallen Wing
Pink horns against deep brown-black plush. Smaller wings, more earthbound presence. Where the Soul Corroder is mythological and travelling, the Unfallen Wing is territorial and still. It doesn't roam — it guards. Whatever it is watching over, it has been watching for a very long time.
Why Mistwalker Is the Most Collectible Hirono Series of 2026
The Mistwalker series does something no previous Hirono plush pendant series has done: it builds a genuine mythology rather than a theme. Road Journal had a travel premise. Freedom Island had an oceanic setting. Mistwalker has archetypes — The Wingless Follower, The Backlit Messenger, The Gap-Glimmer Wanderer — names that carry philosophical weight and suggest a world that extends beyond the six pendants in the box.
That narrative depth is what drives collector behavior in the Pop Mart ecosystem. The series that perform on the secondary market are not the ones with the cutest designs — they are the ones with characters that mean something, designs you cannot stop thinking about, and a world you want to inhabit. The Gap-Glimmer Wanderer's "NOT HERE" label alone is one of the most conceptually bold details Pop Mart has ever put on a blind box piece.
The blind box format means you pull one of the six characters at random. Given the Dragon duo and the Gap-Glimmer Wanderer are likely to be the most in-demand pieces, pre-ordering or buying a full assorted box is the collector's move. Watch the pre-order listings and set an alert — Hirono series in this design tier tend not to sit.
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