All hail Myaku-Myaku, Japan¡¯s new mascot overlord and viral superstar.
The slightly drippy, red-and-blue humanoid ¡ª based on the unsettling, multi-eyed logo for Osaka¡¯s Expo 2025 ¡ª has been recruited to represent the event. Though the design for the character was announced back in March, it wasn¡¯t until two weeks ago that its name was revealed and we got to see its final globulous form.
, charmed and terrified social media users alike quickly embraced and remixed Myaku-Myaku. (Fitting as the any shape it wants.) A fair amount of people chose to imagine the mascot as a benevolent blob, drawing fan art of the blind or . Popular English-language book series Koala English utilized Myaku-Myaku to teach about expressions and adverbs.
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