S is for Sort-of-Unknown - Rubber Knight

I had a lazy weekend (still recovering from that pesky flu!) and there's nothing got ready for tomorrow and not much for today, and I'm actually in London all day today, so I'm leaving you with a couple of puzzles you may be able to help with, if you've got a bit of time on your hands; this is the first!

A nice model of a knight, similar to Soma, or Papo minis,  and coming-in at a straight 50mm, he's a very soft PVC type polymer and he is marked . . .

. . . "Safan Knight with Halberd China". Now it's definitely Safan, not Saban (who licence Power Rangers stuff to Galoob and other Anime/Manga characters to the Zaini/LZ capsule-egg people), but I have nothing in the files, I have really tried to make it Safari but even with a jeweller's loupe it's not '...ri' it's an 'n', so; your mission - if you chose to accept it - is can you find out anything else about Safan?

Another later!