Jan 31, 2016

Japanese Mascot of the Week - #1 Jinenja

The first installment of a weekly series introducing the strangest yuru-kyara mascots Japan has to offer.
source

Hometown: Shiroi City, Chiba Prefecture
2015 Yuru Kyara Grand Prix Ranking: 1070th of 1727

 Jinenja is the Jinenjo (wild yam) Ninja from the Underground Kingdom of Neba Land (Sticky Land) in Shiroi City, Chiba Prefecture. When the Grated Yam Princess, Tororo Hime, was kidnapped, the brave Jinenja chased after her mysterious and formidable kidnapper but was attacked and ran away. After barely escaping with his life, Jinenja found himself in the jinenjo fields of Shiroi City where he was saved by a kind farmer. The farmer awarded Jinenja the City's strongest weapon, the jinenjo, and Jinenja began his special training to rescue the Grated Yam Princess. This training is ongoing and, by the looks of it, Grated Yam Princess better not hold her breath.

When he's not in training, Jinenja likes to explore his musical talents. It's nice to hear that he will "neba neba give up" but, you know, I think we'd all be okay if he did.


For reasons unknown, Jinenja seems to have a thing for abacuses.
source
He really likes abacuses. 
source
I think he might have a problem.
source
These are the mad eyes of a wild yam lost to the lure of the abacus. 

source
You can follow Jinenja to his underground kingdom on Twitter but hopefully your parents raised you better than to trust a yam man down a hole.
Posted by at
Labels: , , , , , ,

1 comment:

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)