Mar 30, 2016

Japanese Mascot of the Week #3 - Toire-kun the Toilet Boy

weekly series introducing the strangest yuru-kyara mascots Japan has to offer.


Hometown: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture (Yokohama Resources and Wastes Circulation Bureau, North Office)
2015 Yuru Kyara Grand Prix Ranking: 1429th of 1727

Toire-kun (pronounced toy-ray, the Japanese approximation of "toilet") is the mascot for the Yokohama Resources and Wastes Circulation Bureau's North Office (not the lousy South Office, those jerks.) His one and only job is to inform citizens of the importance of toilet-related counter-measures in the event of a disaster. What that entails isn't included in his official profile so your guess is as good as mine. Please do not sit on Toire-kun.


Though Toire-kun rarely ventures outside the office, due in part to the severe lack of toilet-related events, he was invited to take part in a local public toilet manners campaign aimed at keeping toilets free of cigarette ash (cigarette ash being the one thing we all complain about upon visiting public toilets.) Here he is posing in front of a now ash-free public toilet under the watchful eye of the onimous "Toilet Diagnosis Expert." 

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Don't let your smile slip, Toire-kun. They're watching. Always watching.

For reasons beyond comprehension, Toire-kun has yet to be given his own line of toilety merchandise. Luckily for diehard Toire-kun fans, toilet seat lids are quite easy to draw on.

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