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Imaginatorium Shop, version 2
Welcome to the new Imaginatorium site at imaginatorium.com
. There is no "total reorganisation", so you should be able to find things easily, and eventually any bookmarks to the old shop will be redirected to the right page. The new checkout is working, which means that in simple cases you will be able to complete a purchase in the normal way.
Covid-19: Shop status
There are still many problems in the postal system, varying hugely from one country to another. More details on the front page, and at the checkout there will be more specific information about the destination country (sorry: not implemented for all countries yet!).
Jigsaw puzzle manufacturers
Ensky – Artbox brand
On this page: Box contents - Ensky website - Identifying Ensky puzzles - Special orders
Ensky produces puzzles under the Artbox brand. The Ensky name is relatively new, only appearing in 2005, but the Artbox brand has a longer history, originally being produced by the Amada Printing Manufacturing Company. For historical notes and some more details, see the manufacturers page.
- If you have a piece missing from an Ensky puzzle, we may be able to help.
Box contents

In days gone by you opened a jigsaw puzzle box, and inside were just the pieces! But Japanese puzzles come with various extra bits and pieces. The assumption is that you will only do the puzzle once, then glue it together for wall mounting, to impress your friends.

1 Pieces
2 Missing piece postcard (Details on request)
3 Sachet of jigsaw puzzle glue (principal ingredient polyvinyl alcohol - PVA)
4 "Mystery object" (glue spreader)
Doing the puzzle
Ignore the strict instructions to do the edge pieces first: put the bits together in any order you like. If you want to display the puzzle, you can use the glue to stick it together. Spread a sheet of clean but unwanted paper under the completed puzzle, with the puzzle the right way up. (Some people say it's best to do this on a sheet of glass, which the puzzle won't stick to.) Then pour the glue over the front of the puzzle: spread it out carefully with the mystery object, so all the joints get neatly filled with glue. It should dry with a nice glossy finish. It is a good idea to practice on a small puzzle before you try this on a really large one.
Disclaimer: I have very limited experience of gluing puzzles - I usually break them up to do again some day. But I have had some success with trompe l'oeil murals!
Please note: Actual box contents may vary slightly - if you find any major discrepancies, please let us know.
Website
The Ensky (Artbox) website is here: https://www.ensky.co.jp. There are now two index pages. The first, "Puzzle topics", has a list of all the characters appearing, unfortunately not in any obvious order (they are arranged in Japanese phonetic a-i-u-e-o order). The second, "Puzzle types", lists the different sizes of puzzles, and variations such as the "crystal" translucent puzzles. The following links lead to the first page of products for each character, with page navigation at the top and bottom if there is more than one page. Click the thumbnail for details.
The small numbers in parenthesis show the approximate number of puzzles in each category. (These may be missing or out of date; the Artbox catalog is updated frequently, and categories often come and go.)
Puzzle topics
Uma Musume Pretty Derby (12) - Spy × Family (11) - My Hero Academia (14) - Kamen Rider (5) - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (37) - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (5) - Mashle: Magic and Muscles (2) - Doraemon (4) - Ultraman (3) - Me & Roboco (1) - Panda! Go, Panda! (1) - Rohan at the Louvre (1) - The Dangers in My Heart (1) - Sailor Moon (8) ("Crystal" means the anime series; not all translucent puzzles) - Harry Potter (1) - Avataro Sentai Donbrothers (2) - Kiki's Delivery Service (60) (Miyazaki animation) - Spirited away (33) (Miyazaki animation) - Laputa, castle in the sky (14) (Miyazaki animation) - Princess Mononoke (12) (Miyazaki animation) - Ponyo on the cliff by the sea (5) (Miyazaki animation) - When Marnie Was There (2) (Studio Ghibli animation) - The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses (1) - Chihiro (2) - Howl's moving castle (12) (Miyazaki animation) - Tales from Earthsea (1) - All Saints Street (2) - The wind rises (2) (Miyazaki animation) - Bread roll crocodile (1) - UniteUp! (1) - Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku (1) - My Neighbor Totoro (109) (Miyazaki animation) - The Borrower Arrietty (2) (Miyazaki animation) - Porco Rosso (16) (Miyazaki animation) - Whisper of the Heart (14) (Miyazaki animation ) - Nausicaä (6) - Schleich dinosaurs (2) - Earwig and the Witch (2) - Studio Ghibli (315) (Shows all of the Miyazaki animations) - Spy Classroom (1) - Lycoris recoil (4) - Heaven burns red (8) - Play It Cool, Guys (1) - Kuroko's Basketball (1) - The Vampire Dies in No Time (1) - Trigun Stampede (1) - Pui Pui Molcar (5) (Children's anime) - The Quintessential Quintuplets (11) - The Cat Returns (1) - Kaiketsu Zorori (1) - Golden Kamuy (3) - The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (1) - Splatoon (8) - Jujutsu Kaisen (Sorcery fight) (6) - Sumikko-gurashi (49) ("Living in the corner") - One Piece (71) (TV animation) - Hatsune Miku (6) (Vocaloid character) - Minecraft (14) - Cardcaptor Sakura (4) - BT21 (6) - Mofusand (9) - Dandadan (3) - Wind Breaker (2) - Dr. Stone (1) - Pokémon (54) - Kirby's Dream Land (20) - Pretty Cure (2) - Bocchi the Rock! (1) - Fantastic Beasts (2) - Momotaro Dentetsu (1) - Dragon Quest (4) - Rilakkuma (4) (relaxing bear ) - Stranger things (Spike) (1) - Blue Lock (6) - Attack on Titan (3) - Curious George (1) - Super Mario (4) - Detective Conan (5) - Monster Hunter series (3) - Girls und Panzer (1) - My Neighbors the Yamadas (1) - Eleven cats (1) - Tokyo Revengers (8) - Ghiblies (2) - Sword Art Online (2) - The Red Turtle (2) - Gintama series (1) - Naruto Shippuden (2) ("Hurricane Chronicles") - Dragon Ball (23) - Kamen Rider series (1) - That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (1) - Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (3) - Puella Magi Madoka Magica (1) - Fushigi Dagashiya Zenitendō (2) (the mystery sweetshop) - Tokyo fantasy (4) - PAW Patrol (4) - The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2) (Studio Ghibli) - SSSS.Dynazenon (1) - SSSS.Gridman (1) - Yowamushi Pedal (2) - Nintama Rantarō (1) - Mob Psycho 100 (1) - Sanrio characters (2) - Haikyū!! (3) - Shaun the Sheep (1) - Crayon Shin-chan (2) - Bleach (manga) (1) - Grave of the Fireflies (2) (Studio Ghibli animation) - From up on Poppy Hill (2) (Miyazaki animation) - Only Yesterday (1)
Puzzle types
Tiny puzzles (41) - Compact puzzles (31) - Art board puzzles (27) - Art ball puzzles (2) - Decoration puzzles (11) - Crystal (95) - Under 100 pieces (14) - 100-199 pieces (127) - 200-299 pieces (86) - 300-499 pieces (259) - 500-999 pieces (91) - 1000 pcs and over (172) - Mini-puzzles (67) - Large pieces (44) - Miscellaneous puzzles (1) - Frames (39)
(Updated May 2023)
Identifying Ensky puzzles
The Ensky product codes all start with the piece count, then a hyphen, then a code number: e.g., 1000-29 is a 1000-piece puzzle. Imaginatorium Shop item codes all begin with 'N' (for "Ensky", as none of the letters in 'Artbox' was available!) followed by a condensed version, with the first two digits indicating the number of pieces. So the above is N1029, then N03xxx means 300 pieces, N20yyy means 2000 pieces, N95zzz means 950 pieces, and so on.