Forget Pokemon, gotta collect all these Kaomoji-kun!

29th January 2008 Katherine Hannaford Toys

We’ve just been alerted to a new Japanese trend! Culture vultures and Western World otaku, take note!

The above little toy-things are called Kaomoji-kun, whose faces are made from Shift-JIS/ascii/emoticon style characters. There are various expressions available, and I’m already imagining them littering my office desk, inspiring me with the Skype emoticons. Apparently each little character has a different life story, and you’re meant to collect them all. They’re reportedly about ¥100, or 40p each over in Japan.

Super-kawaii!

Yujin’s kaomoji-kun (via NotCot)

Jan 29, 2008Katherine Hannaford

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