I found that Yaeyama region of Okinawa has a cutest cat mascot character who named Pikaryaa.
He (Pikaryaa is a legendary wild big cat boy!) is not only a mascot character but sightseeing and advertising manager of Yaeyama region. He has some spots on his tummy, these are very looks alike Yaeyama islands.
We could find him everywhere in Ishigaki island or Yaeyama region islands.
I got his ball-point pen as a souvenir for myself.
Pikaryaa official site
Pikaryaa – Twitter
Little Twin Stars characters born in the year of 1975, so this year is their 40th anniversary.
The lovely official and memorial art book was published in this January.
It contains a lot of Kiki and Lala’s cute art, interview with their original designer, small reissued filed mag, old-time products, or many more contents.
I especially love the interview of their mom-designer, like how they were born from the first sketches.
Kiki and Lala are one of my best friends all the time. I love them more when I finished reading the art book.
Little Twin Stars ART BOOK – Amazon.co.jp
Kyoko Okazaki is a manga artist who made huge impact in 1980s-90s.
Her manga books are not suit for small children, but for late teens or grown-ups.
She drew poetic and realistic and painful stories with cute and sexy characters, it’s not as like ordinary happy-ending lovely girls’ manga books.
She was forced to stopped her career since 1996, a sudden traffic accident.
Still now, so many people loves her work. We can see her almost of all works in this exhibition.
I got washi tapes of Okazaki’s sexy girls from “I wanna be your dog”.
Literature Museum of Setagaya-Ward (世田谷文学館)
Kyoko Okazaki – Wikipedia
This lovely Snoopy is the collaborative stuff between X-girl and SNOOPY.
Snoopy wears X-girl hoodie and jeans. He looks like a cool street skater. I’ve been loving with the Peanuts Snoopy.
This Snoopy is very cute, and he is just a perfect, soft cuddly size.
I was very lucky to find stuffed toys of Rilakkuma Kiiroitori (yellow bird) at Lawson.
It was collaboration between Kiiroitori and Lawson.
There are 3 kinds of Kiiroitori such as Cleaning, Shopping and Onigiri (rice ball).
And, the adorable Kiiroitori are all palm-sized.
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