Tenorikuma is a character of Japanese based Company Sanrio. It is new to all Sanrio fans which is not yet so much popular. In Japanese Tenorikuma refers to a bear that can be easily fit in your palm. Tenorikuma are a group of raccoons.

This team runs a coffee shop called as Tenorikuma. It is all about five interesting characters, main character among them is Latte who is working as Manager in the shop. He is quiet different from all other characters by a heart on his left sided ear. This character is newly introduced into Sanrio so it was not made popular.

Other characters are Chai with yellow scarf on his ear, Frappe with a green colored scarf on its ear. Maple, it is the only female character and it got a pink scarf on its ear; Latte is in love with Maple. Mister Stream is another interesting character i.e. steam from the hot coffee. Muddler is a spoon character and Macchiato is with blue scarf.

Tenorikuma name is used commercially for many cafes and children toys shops. All the characters present in Tenorikuma are commercially used to attract the children and fans.

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Monokuro Boo helps to appreciate the simple things in life.

Character History

Produced by the Japanese company- San-X- Monokuro Boo are animated characters. Their initial appearance in the market was in 2005, when the company licensed the character along with other gifting items. Furthermore, Monokuro was certified under RM Enterprises Ltd, who is officially given the responsibility for promoting as well as developing the marketing of the character across Asia, along with other intercontinental markets.

Concept behind the Character

Initially when the character was composed, it was not named Monokuro Boo, instead it was fixed as Monotone, where “Mono” stated the color black and white, and “ton” simply indicated pig. However, the design creator somehow struck the idea of white and black pig character.

Following the long discussion, San-X finally agreed and the present name o the character was settles. It was also because of the fact, that public will love colorful characters.

Appearance

The fresh and neutral characters- Monokuro Boo- are made up of two pigs, with ones colored in black, whilst the other in white. The square shaped designed bodies are welcomed by plenty of consumers.

On a closer note, the pigs have dots for pointing eyes, a nose, and the appearance given a complete touch with mischievous curry tail fixed to the back. The Monokuro boo character is especially seen accompanied with at least one bee floating around. The simply designed character can influence anyone to become relaxed.

Features

The Monokuro character is more than just cute, as across Europe pigs are considered to be lucky charms for the owners. Moreover, the characters are also combined with small meaningful notes on their body, such as “Simple is Best”, “Love?”, “Happy”, “Boo” or “Enjoy?”. Thus, many people are attracted to them, to take in possession of this character hoping luck will turn to their side.

Nevertheless, the messages also resemble simper meanings, that will make a normal person stop and think for a moment, which surely helps practically.

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Treecko is one of the grass type Pokemon. It is one of the starter Pokemon in the games Ruby and sapphire. Its evolution takes place at level-16 and level-36 resulting in Grovel and Sceptile. Treecko is a small, two-footed and reptilian like Pokemon.

It has two dark green tails and also a red colored underside. Treecko got only six fingers and six toes. His eyes are big and yellowish in color with reptilian pupas. Treecko has got four legs but it never uses the front two and always walks on two hind legs and there is always a grass twig in its mouth. Treecko is very cute and also friendly character. This is one of the three starter type Pokemon.

Every Treecko has got the power to Overgrow, This helps to make grass type moves at 150% only when its HP is fewer than 30%. Every Treecko is gifted with small spikes which help it to climb walls very easily. Treecko made his first appearance in the episode “Get the Show on Road”, where Professor Birch introduces it as one of the starter Pokemon. Our hero ASH got a Treecko in the episode “Tree’s a Crowd”. Ash made Treecko to evolve twice to become a Sceptile.

Treecko mainly uses its tail to build its nest on big thick trees, and also uses its tail to slam its enemies. It uses its thick tail and let’s you know the whether conditions of the next day. Treecko is considered as the protector, since it doesn’t allow any outsider to enter its territory. Furthermore, Treecko doesn’t fall back even if the enemy is way too stronger, as the Treecko character is very strong mentally and never panics under any circumstances. The feet of Treecko are hatched with tiny spikes which give it some extra grip so it can even climb or even walk on walls easily.

At the moment of writing this, there is one cute and rare Treecko plush toy available here (the same as in the picture above). They have been never sold in shops. This one has been a prize in arcade games in Japan.
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Character Background

The character Goomba was forenamed after an iconic enemy present in the Mario series. It has appeared as the Game Boy emulator. Initially, with the implementation of the project, the only motive was to spread fun to the audience with the character’s captivation as the GB games were already played, but now Goomba was a twisted character. However, with the releasing of Nintendo and Game Boy Micro, Goomba captured success with popularity due to the character’s features.

Captain Goomba

Among the wide-ranged Goomba characters Captain Goomba is on of the most favorite and recognized. The character is an oversized version, appeared in Mario Party- exactly at the conclusion of Goomba’s Booty Boardwalk. As the name already indicates, he is the captain of an on-going ship, accompanied with few characters along the journey. Moreover, every assigned character is provided with a star by Captain Goomba.

When it is concerning Star Battle, the star is awarded to only those characters that are able to collect 50 points. This precisely states that the key to win over the battle is the awarded star. In case, any character fails to achieve 50 points or remains with less than 50 points then Captain Goomba commands to start off the track all over again.

Furthermore, Captain Goomba also has a group of Pirate Goombas, which are highlighted because of their green pirate bandannas. Moreover, they also show up in the conclusion of Goomba’s Booty Sidewalk to attain stars. The most interesting part goes, when the Pirate Gombas create obstacles for new characters to meet Captain Goomba. Firstly they declare they are not permitted to gain entrance. However, upon such rude declaration, the Pirate Goombas promptly covers the character leaving no space to escape, and then the character is loaded inside a cannon, and transferred back to the starting point.

Goomba plush toys are rare because they have never been sold in shops. Some of them have been used as prizes in Japanese arcade game halls for a limited time. At the moment I’m writing this there is one vintage Super Mario Goomba soft toy available at Yukari’s Kawaii Shop. Read the rest of this entry »

Meet Nyan Nyan Nyanko - the food loving childlike kitten.

The Japanese Manufacturing Company San-X, which concentrates mainly in the of the production and management of goods attributing anthropomorphic characters.

Majority of the distinctive characters created are targeted to Japanese traditions, with many of them even aiming a particular audience, like school goers or daily workers. However, each character is distinctive with varied features and appearance.

Character Background

Nyan Nyan Nyanko, is one of the adorable character made under this Japanese company, which is just addressed as “Nyanko” many times.

According to the Japan based dictionary, the word “Nyan” is a Japanese onomatopoeic term that indicates the noise made by cats (i.e. meow), along with the word “Ko” states the Japanese word for “infant” or “young”. When these words are collided together for addressing the character as Nyan Nyan Nyanko, it simply resembles childlike kitty.

Appearance

Nyankos appear as white small sized kitten, which takes pleasure in imitating other items- the items are basically edible food items. Besides this, one might find these adorable kitten-like characters, placed on numerous toys, school stationers or other household electric appliances.

Buyers simply purchase Nyan Nyan Nyanko to have the kitten-like characters at their possession, which to some extent is delightful.

The Japanese Manufacturing Company San-X, which concentrates mainly in the of the production and management of goods attributing anthropomorphic characters. Majority of the distinctive characters created are targeted to Japanese traditions, with many of them even aiming a particular audience, like school goers or daily workers. However, each character is distinctive with varied features and appearance.

Popularity

Though the Nyan Nyan Nyanko items are produced with a spectrum of designs, making the buyer selecction wide-ranged, however as the market scenario says it’s difficult to locate these uncommon characters.

Most commonly, they can be located in miniature sizes attached to small key chains associated with some Japanese chocolate box. Many of the buyers use these attachments as their figurines.

Furthermore, one can also observe the availability of Nyankos distributed as prizes with machines sold at Japanese shopping malls. The Nyan Nyan Nyanko symbol is also embossed on numerous stationery supplies, like pencils, erasers, and other kid books.

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Meowth is a Pokemon which looks like a cat. Meowth is a part of team rocket. Meowth later evolves into Persian. Meowth got four legs but prefers walking on the hind legs. Meowth is the second most famous character in the Pokemon show first place is occupied by the Pikachu.

Meowth eyes glitter when he sees something shining. He is a normal Pokemon. Meowth is 1′04″ only and weighs over six kilograms. Meowth has got the power of static which makes people immobile. Meowth is yellow in color. Its gender is of half male and half female.

Meowth is a first generation Pokemon which uses its sharp and whiney claws for small attacks. Meowth constantly searches for shinny coins. When a Meowth finds anything shinny like a coin they feel very happy that their eyes and the metal plate on its forehead starts to shine. When a Meowth finds a coin it carefully adds it to its personal collection.

The Pokemon director Masakazu Kubo told in an interview that Meowth is his favorite character. These characters use their sharp claws to protect themselves from tiny attacks. All the characters of Pokemon are well recognized in the society and they are made popular by their fans.

Many shop, centers are named after the characters of Pokemon to attract the children and fans. In this way Pokemon characters are commercially utilized. Meowth are mostly attracted towards shiny round things or coins. Most of the time is spent wandering around the city in search of shiny, round coins. Though it looks like a cat it is not. It has a fur which is cream colored and black colored strips on it.

The cute appearance of Meowth made it much popular than other characters of Pokemon. When you’re going to buy Meowth plush toy check out this shop. Read the rest of this entry »

Shawnimals Ninja Town set contains a whole bunch of Ninjatown characters. These plushies are each about two and half inches tall which makes it easy to attach them wherever you want it.

The characters in this micro plush series are Anti-Ninja, Baby Ninja, Business Ninja, Feroshi the Dino Slug, Mr. Demon, Ninja Consultant, Ninja Dropping, Ol’Master Ninja, Wee Devil, Wee Ninja, White Ninja and Zombie Ninja.

These are sold in a blind box which means you don’t know what you’re gonna get. Each box contains one of these Ninjatown characters. Some of them are more rare than others. Mr. Demon (pic below) is the most elusive of these little ninjas.

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Mamegoma… a small and cute seal.

Character Background

Composed by the well-known Japanese toy and stationery manufacturing company, San-X, Mamegoma characters fall in the category of unusual toys - a lot different than usual designs. The characters are miniature seals that can be seen in numerous color patches.

The addressing name “Mamegoma” straightly refers to “bean seal, where the prefix “Mame” according to the Japanese dictionary means “bean” that refers to the tiny version of things, and relatively the suffix “goma” in Japanese indicates “spotted seal”. Even though the Mamegoma characters are not spoted seals, the prefix (Mame) is combined with suffix (goma) to resemble the character more appropriately with its appearance.

Appearance

Mamegomas are miniature creatures as a character with cute, adorable appearance-lovable to many eyes. The suit colors are wide-ranged, including cool colors, such as peaceful white, navy blue, and shocking pink.

Other than just individual colors, one can also locate them in fabulous color combinations like light brown color contrasted with stripes of darker brown color, the most favorite black & white combination, or even dark brown dots scattered over the light brown body. The color combinations are much appealing than the single colored suits.

Mamegoma characters are often portrayed to weigh approximately 200g (measuring merely 12cm). The miniature appearance is given the primary importance, for its fine placement in a goldfish bowl together with a few counted ice cubes for preserving the water cool and pleasant.

Furthermore, they are often publicized in the media channel or business advertisements, to be settled perfectly in bath tubs, together with calming on a wheel cage amid other motions.

Mamegoma Popularity

Basically, the characters - Mamegoma - are promoted from UFO catcher machines as cuddly toys; moreover they are also positioned as logos on various calendars and marketing products. Despite the Mamegoma logos presenting fancy items, there are numerous stationeries with other products having Mamegoma character.

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Rilakkuma is a bear who loves delicious pancakes and doughnuts. He wears a light brown colored bear suit and is often found sitting and relaxing or sleeping.

Background

Rilakkuma is a Japan based character created by San-X, having its name as the blend of two Japanese words- “relax” and “bear”. To date, all information depicting Rilakkuma’s background is that on a fine day he visited an office employee’s house known as Kaoru.

Rilakkuma, who is resided at an office lady’s apartment, appears in a light brown colored suit. He is usually seen in the sitting mode, eagerly hanging on for suits, who match his clothing pattern precisely.

As the name “Rilakkuma” sounds, the appearance is also truly relaxing and amazing. Most of the times, Rilakkuma is pinpointed with another character known as Korilakkuma. In comparison to Rilakkuma, the accompanying character is of a smaller size, dressed in white suit with a playful individuality.

Appearance

Most interestingly, Korilakkuma often stays busy playing distinctive pranks on Rilakkuma, when he is unconsciously sleeping. The mischievous activities include actions like sketching over him, fixing up headphones or even sewing up unusually colored patches on the clean suit of Rilakkuma that makes him irritated.

Features

Mochi, pancakes and delicious doughnuts are included as the most loved foods by Rilakkuma.

From 2003, Rilakkuma is on the upsurge of popularity after the debut. Nevertheless, on the third anniversary of Rilakkuma various new characters were orientated because of the huge success celebration. An observer will notice that in the following fifth anniversary Rilakkuma, along with his other pals were given a new outlook with royal standard clothing.

Moreover, in the honor of the fabulous character many things were marketed under the name of Rilakkuma, like numerous toys, stickers, outfits, electronic appliances as well as puffy toys.

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This lazy panda loves eating Japanese food muchi. It also has this a little bit weird tendency for relaxing in a tea cup. Tarepanda is a sluggish panda, which lies on the ground all the time, no matter from what direction you experiment looking.

History of Tarepanda

Tarepanda one of the famous characters, was created by Hikaru Suemasa, which was an unexpected creation after so many sketches disliked. It was in 1995, when San-X unveiled Tarepanda stickers, which was later in 1998 developed by inaugurating erasers as well as letter pads with the printing of Tarepanda. This was a tremendous success, as the look of it gave people the chance of relaxing forgetting their busy scheduled lives for a while. It was in a short period of time that this very character became famous in Japan.

Appearance

Tarepanda characters are designed to be a very soft-to-touch toys. Tarepanda is characterized as a sluggish panda, which all the time lies on the field, no matter from what direction you experiment looking. Tarepanda was chosen as the name, because this word means laziness, however in the Japanese language the prefix “Tare”, indicates “lying on to slouch/tummy”. The Tarepanda travels around only by rolling as he is extremely lazy- to the company’s calculations it travels approximately 2.75 meter per hour.

Features

The adorable Tarepanda loves eating mochi - particularly Suama - which is an old traditional Japanese food; together with this the character also has the tendency for relaxing in teacup. The expert design at times makes it tough to distinguish the gender of the character. Is it a boy? Maybe… Is it a girl? Perhaps? Can’t really say!

More often Tarepanda is highlighted via media and is has also made appearance in on-screen TV dramas. Nevertheless, the fascinating character is elegantly composed of top quality materials, that eventually adds to its appealing appearance and fame even the economical downturn.

Where to Get It?

If you are looking to buy Tarepanda plushies you absolutely must check out this place. I also have placed links on the pictures above so you can click them and enter the store directly.