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Hello Kitty was once drawn in the same costume (holding a toy machine gun with a cork in the end).
Tokunoshima Island's mascot, Mabooru-kun, is a grumpy bull being slowly eaten by a huge snake. What better way to attract tourists?
Who says accountancy has to be boring? Shinobi-chan, the mascot of CS Accounting, is a blade-wielding pink ninja.
Kyoto's Uji City, a place renowned for its green tea, has a mascot named Matcho. He's a macho matcha genie with a tea grinder for a head.
Keisei Panda, the mascot for Keisei Electric Railway, is in need of a good night’s sleep.
The mascots for Saitama Prefecture’s sewer system are a tardigrade microorganism called Kumamushi-kun and a mix of a tardigrade and a cat, called Kumanyanko-chan.
An anthropomorphic exploding firework, Hanapon is the mascot for Yamagata University’s fireworks display.
Teinu-kun is a dog whose head is a hand. He’s the mascot of Teine Ward in Sapporo City.
Today is “Coming of Age Day” in Japan, when the nation’s 20-year-olds celebrate their adulthood. One 20-year-old mascot is Toripy, the pear/bird mascot of Tottori Prefecture.