Who is Yoshikitty, the revelation of the latest Sanrio Characters Ranking

Few weeks ago, Sanrio Characters Ranking, the annual survey to choose Sanrio characters most loved by fans, has revealed its winner for 2018. The latest edition (the 33rd) has reserved several surprises, especially in the first positions, where Hello Kitty gives up the lowest step of the podium to her “alter ego” Yoshikitty. But who is the new “rival” of the most famous kitty in the world?

Here are the mascots of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Now that we archived the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, we are already beginning to think about the upcoming Tokyo Summer Olympics. Oh yes, because even if there are more than 2 years left before they light up the Olympic flame, we already have two winners! In fact, the two kawaii mascots that will accompany the athletes in Tokyo 2020 have just been announced: let’s get to know them!

12 kawaii puppies to start the new year

According to the Chinese Horoscope, 2018 is the Year of the Dog! Officially, the new Chinese year will start on February 16th, but we want to celebrate it a bit earlier by making you know some four-legged kawaii characters you may never heard about. We have chosen 12 of them, one for each month of the year: what’s your favourite? Happy 2018 to all of you!

5 San-x characters too weird to be true

We did it with Sanrio characters, but we couldn’t avoid taking a look also to San-x catalogue. The company that gave us Rilakkuma, in fact, has nothing to envy the historical competitors when it comes to strangeness. As a matter of facts, San-x has possibly created during the years some of the best (or worst, depending of the point of view) oddities in the world of Japanese characters. Here is our top 5, or better top 6: there’s a final bonus!

5 Sanrio characters borderline crazy

While in Japan the annual Sanrio Character Ranking, the survey to decide the ranking of the favourite characters, is ending, we are looking at the brand’s archive for a peculiar category of characters we love: the differently kawaii. They are those characters not cute (at least for us), but very much ridiculous, surreal and with no sense at all. Here are our choices, in chronological order!

5 Sanrio characters deserving more

Not everything turns out as it should and sometimes some characters that look so cute don’t meet actually much success. So, we combed through Sanrio’s archive looking for those relatively unknown characters that, according to our discretion, would have deserved more fame.

Who is Kumamon, the mascot of Kumamoto prefecture hit by the earthquake

As you already know, during the last weeks South Japan was hit by a series of strong earthquakes which have caused many damages and forced thousands of people to leave their homes. The afflicted area is the Kumamoto Prefecture, on Kyushu Island, place of some important historical buildings, like Aso Shrine, one of the most ancient of Japan, and Kumamoto Castle. Even if we are a little late, we wish to remind you what we can do to help the survivors and we want to do it our way… by introducing you to Kumamon, the Kumamoto Prefecture mascot!