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Tomichan is the mascot for Tomisato City, Japan’s largest producer of watermelons. The city holds an annual “Watermelon Road Race”, where participants eat melon slices while they run.
Japan’s Ajigasawa Town promotes local cuisine with two mascots, Zukedon and Hirame—a sentient bowl of rice and a halibut that lives on its head.
Japan Sewer Association mascot, Suisui-kun, before and after a trip to the sewer.
Anebon, the mascot of Japan’s Ichihara City, is modelled on a bell in the local temple. He’s a bell that strikes himself with a hammer.
Sake-bear, a weeping bear/fish hybrid, is a mascot in Sapporo City. https://t.co/7FMryok2AC
OKIKU-chan, mascot of the freepaper, "Sapporo Hair Catalog", is always looking for a hair salon in Sapporo City, because her hair grows fast due to a curse.
Akantarenosuke, a character from Osaka’s Abeno ward, is a boy with a ramen bowl on his head.
Shirakabeno is a romantic Italian playboy/warehouse, and an unofficial mascot of Japan’s Kurashiki City.
These terrifying artists' impressions of Panpanda would give the Babadook and Slenderman nightmares.