Here is a collection of 99 cute characters summoned from the depths of the Japanese Figure Trademark Database. These friendly critters appear in a variety of settings ranging from company logos and promotional materials to product packaging and advertising.
This collection represents only a small portion of the figurative trademarks found in the Japanese Figure Trademark Database. To explore the contents, go to the search page and plug in the Vienna Classification category numbers for the type of figure you would like to see.
The database does not provide explanatory information about the characters, nor does it indicate the names of the companies that employ them.
[Thanks to Japanese Trademarks for pointing the way!]
Pablo Lara H
Great!
[]Darla
Okay, that's too fun. Thank you for sharing!
[]@_JJunior
Very cool!!
[]Rich
I would love to know where the "angry daikon" comes from ...
[]Simon
Sadly I only recognised one and that was the friggin' Nova bunny.
[]Valerie
For what it's worth, one of these is a Nick Jr character (octopus in the 6th row, 3rd column):
http://www.nickjr.com/oswald/
[]Sirkowski
What's Oswald doing there???
[]otakugirl
Hilarious! I've been collecting those from food packaging I get from Japan but have never seen the ones above. I am curious what does 'uma tamago' stand for?
[]tony
tamago means egg, but i dont know off the top of my head what uma is
[]UMA
Uma means horse, but it might also be the shortened form of umai (delicious).
[]Cutkillavince
Some are very cool :)
[]Shin
Tamago:egg I dont know what Uma means
[]emogoo
Uma means horse.
[]tony
ma-yo buta= mayonnaise pig. wierd, haha ( the yellow mustard looking bottle with the pig nose)
[]JJapan
Haha, I used to work for NOVA, the company that owned #39 (the hideous pink bunny with a beak). Thank god the company went under and was bought out.
[]Boo Boo
Yeah, me too ... got out just in time! F**k Nova Usagi!
[]sanjirosan
really cool to see so many mascots from my time in Japan, but I did find one error so far. #18 the octopus with the bowler hat is not a mascot at all, actually it is property of Nick Jr. an American kids animation channel. his name is Oswald, and he honestly has no roots to Japan, then, or now. http://www.nickjr.com/oswald/ as "Japanese" as it might look, it is all American. a great show, and I love PinkTenticale =^__^=
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