{"id":194,"date":"2016-12-11T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T11:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2017-03-27T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:47:58","slug":"world-character-summit-2016-in-hanyu-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/11\/world-character-summit-2016-in-hanyu-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"World Character Summit 2016 in Hanyu (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a final selection of pictures of obscure mascots from the recent World Character Summit in Hanyu, Saitama.<\/p>\n

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Muzumuzu-kun<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Muzumuzu-kun, king of Imizu City. Bring back monastic rule and put this guy in charge!<\/p>\n

Hinojagakun and Sainobuntakun<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0On the right is the potato-headed perpetual 22-year-old mascot of Hinohara Village on the edge of Tokyo. On the left is Sainobuntakun, the rhinoceros mascot of a Saitama newspaper. Imagine their children!<\/div>\n
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Sasadangon<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Sasadangon of Niigata (based on the local treat, sasadango) strikes a sexy pose. Phwoar!<\/p>\n

Wataru<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Honshu-Shikoku Bridge mascot is called Wataru. Wataru is a normal Japanese guy’s name, a peculiar choice for a being that looks like a mattress.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ma-Kun and Ayumin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Higashimatsuyama\u2019s twin mascots, Ma-kun and (hiding behind her brother) Ayumin.<\/div>\n
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Oripy<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Sayama city’s cherubic Oripy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tomo<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tomo is the mascot for Tomoe Milk in Koga City, Ibaragi. I got a free sample of the milk and it was very yummy.<\/p>\n

Happy Hanyu Hanyu<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Happy Hanyu Hanyu” is the mascot of Hanyu General Hospital. Who knows what diabolical genetics experiments are going on there, if Happy is any indication?<\/p>\n

Black Bancho<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Black Bancho is a super-cool squid from Itoigawa city.<\/p>\n

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Oke-Chan<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oke-Chan is a safflower in a kimono, and hails from Okegawa city in Saitama.(There is no shortage of mascots in Saitama.)<\/p>\n

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Mochi Usagi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Niigata’s Mochi Usagi is bunny with a rice cake for a head. Is it bad that I am suddenly hungry?<\/p>\n

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Skinny<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This eerie and enigmatic figure is named Skinny, and that’s about all I know about him. The yuru-chara equivalent of Slenderman.<\/p>\n

Papa Tako<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Papa Tako, the octopus mascot of Akashi city in Hyogo. He would make a good partner in crime for Black Bancho.<\/p>\n

Ninjaemon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Koka City in Shiga is famous for all things ninja. Hence the mascot, Ninjaemon. It’s hard to imagine this character stealthily creeping into your house at midnight, though.<\/p>\n\n

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Here is a final selection of pictures of obscure mascots from the recent World Character Summit in Hanyu, Saitama. Muzumuzu-kun Muzumuzu-kun, king of Imizu City. Bring back monastic rule and put this guy in charge! Hinojagakun and Sainobuntakun \u00a0On the right is the potato-headed perpetual 22-year-old mascot of Hinohara Village on the edge of Tokyo. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[11,4,5],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-mascots","tag-hanyu","tag-japan","tag-mascots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}