Hokkaido Marimokkori: Chubby toy from the North

I try to find things for our female readers to counterbalance the rest of our content. But I fail miserably. Case in point:
What is this toad-like entity? And why does he seem to be very happy to see us? Get the details at Japan Newbie.

1 comment - What do you think? Posted by Claytonian - February 1, 2007 at 9:34 pm

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Tadashi

The funny thing is that a few weeks after I read about Marimos at Japan Newbie, I translated a manga by the creator of Cave Story and in one of the stories, there is actually a Marimo, a human-eating one on top!

You can read the translation here:
http://shii.org/pixel/ame_manga_english.zip

The original can be found here:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/

Hokkaido Marimokkori: Chubby toy from the North

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