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NCIS Reruns
One wag described the grotesque mascot Myaku-Myaku as resembling a hemorrhoid.
virusrex
One has to admire the almost prescient design of the mascot, faithfully depicting the chaos and monstrosity of the organization of the expo long before it was as obvious as it is right now.
Geeter Mckluskie
Looks like an intestine stricken by a virus
tamanegi
Pon de ring donut as depicted by a 3 year old.
USNinJapan2
Aside from being ugly, I think most visitors will have difficulty pronouncing its name. It's certainly won't be catchy with the audience like, say, Kumamon.
iron man
Every visitor will recognise it as being a temp. mascot. and same as that pseudo apple headquarters??? that can later be recycled into an olympic stadium (sorry just dreaming)
Speed
You'd think a country that makes the most amazingly cool anime comics and characters would draw up a sleek and inspirational mascot.
Instead we have Pon de Cancer.
MikeL
OMG, its' STD Smurf
Bret T
Hmmm, a person must need to be an artist to understand what the creator was trying to convey... I'm not feeling it.
P_C
"A mysterious creature born from the unification of cells and water"
Certainly clears that up . . . .