#mascots — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mascots, aggregated by home.social.
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Kumamon, the popular mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture, met with children at an elementary school on Sunday, giving them a brief moment of relief in the aftermath of last month's earthquake. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/17/japan/kumamoto-kumamon-cheer-children/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kumamon #kumamoto #earthquakes #mascots #2026kumamotoearthquake #children
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Promise Mascot Agency: Absurdist Adventure RPG Romp Thing 🚐
Some indie games are naturally more insane than others. Promise Mascot Agency fits the bill lovingly there. It’s by UK-based devs Kaizen Game Works and their game launched back in April 2025 (out on all consoles and PC).
It styles itself like a Japanese absurdist, surreal, manga type jaunt. The player works as a mascot recruiter where you go around a cursed town saving the day, which features all sorts of bizarre happenings. Hurray? Yes, it’s nuts fun.
The Berserk Charms of Promise Mascot Agency
This game may appear excessively weird from a surface level overview, but it actually turns out to be a super wholesome and delightful time of it.
It’s an open world adventure game with RPG, narrative, and mascot management sim elements. Players take control of Michi (a yakuza fixer type dude) who befriends Pinky. She’s a mascot of a severed living finger with a baby face, one who also has anger management issues.
Michi’s goal is to revive a mascot agency to support the local community.
To do that, you drive a small pickup truck and must speed around a Japanese city in the open world element, where you unravel various local conspiracies and the like. You also complete jobs in Grand Theft Auto fashion, develop your reputation, and revel in how incredibly weird everything is.
From there, a Mondo Mascots type vibe emerges. You meet all sorts of wonderfully bizarre mascot creations (a very real thing in Japan for every location), and guide them toward greater things.
Behold Kaizen Game Works’ gameplay explainer video below for more details. You’ll probably need to hear it as Promise Mascot Agency is an oddball time of it.
The whole thing is basically Grand Theft Auto but with a heaping wodge of insane Japanese kawaii culture stuff over the top. And that’s a very great thing a lot of the time.
Absurdity and all that to one side, it’s a fun game. If this sort of Nippon type madness is your thing then you’ll have a whale of a time here. We did the game very amusing, too, which helped. And it’s a unique take on the GTA format.
If you want something a bit less ridiculous, though, you may struggle with it. Plus, despite its best efforts, Promise Mascot Agency can feel a little aimless at times. The driving mechanics are, seemingly bad on purpose, also a bit strange and it can get frustrating.
However, overall we had a much fun with this. There’s about 10 hours of gameplay when you get stuck into it for the main story, but plenty of stuff around that to keep you occupied.
You’ll know from the trailer whether you want to give it a go or not. And if you do, just hurl yourself on in there and go with the flow. It’s all very odd, but then you must already like that type of thing as you’re a Professional Moron reader. Huzzah!
Promise Mascot Agency, Ahoy! This One Has a Jazz Fusion Score
A quick nod to the game’s soundtrack here. Kaizen Game Works even went all out with the game’s score, which was by Japanese composer Ryo Koike.
It’s that particular type of breezy Japanese music that’s 1970s Shōwa-era Japanese jazz fusion. That means a lot of funky basslines, vintage synths, jazz flutes and the like. It’s an acquired listen and not for everyone, but we like the below Misfits Make It Work.
Now, we happen to hate jazz fusion and find it stunningly pretentious.
Most of the time, anyway, but this particular Japanese variety has that oddball quality to it we kind of like. It’s background music, basically, which is why the devs put together this 60 minutes Kaso-Machi studying vibes video for students and working professionals.
Not 100% our cup of tea, we must admit, but notable for the commitment to Japanese authenticity here.
We thought Promise Mascot Agency was, surely, going to be by a Japanese indie dev. Nope! It’s by English people like us, which adds a nice bit of clout to the whole gameplay package.
#absurd #adventure #anime #Fun #Funny #gaming #IndieGames #Japan #KaizenGameWorks #kawaii #Lifestyle #manga #Mascots #PromiseMascotAgency -
Ooh they made my art all wiggly!
#mascots #art #OCAF
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Mashable: Googling ‘Jimothy’ brings up an unexpected surprise. “On Tuesday, Threads users noticed that Jimothy’s fame has now been acknowledged by the search engine gods — namely, he has his own Google animation.”
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It's the weekend & we've got a real chaos episode for you.
In this week's episode, we venture into the wild world of fictional lions & lion mascots.
I'll be posting visuals all week, so prepare yourself for all the "saggity" lion content!
Listen to the pod here & let us know your favorites/least favorites: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/leo-minor-pop-culture-superstar/
#Lions #mascots #PopCulture #LeoMinor #Leo #Lion #silly #humor #chaos #podcast
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Controversial, but Jordan's pick for least favorite #giraffe in #PopCulture was this icon:
Hear her defense of this choice here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/camelopardalis-pop-culture-superstar/
📷 :https://admascots.fandom.com/wiki/Geoffrey_the_Giraffe?file=Toysrus-1170x600.jpg
#ToysRUs #Geoffrey #Mascots #Silly #Camelopardalis #giraffes #nostalgia
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Maryland Matters: ‘Super fun’: The tale of how a prehistoric shark became Maryland’s official state shark . “Two days earlier, in the final hours of Maryland’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill to make megalodon — the largest shark that ever lived — the state shark. It became official on Tuesday, when Gov. Wes Moore signed Senate Bill 35 into law, declaring in one line […]
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New York Groove: We got to the bottom of the Sex and the City-style composting ads . “It’s hard to remember any recent conversation about transit ads that didn’t center around AI ‘companions,’ AI slop ‘recipes,’ endless GLP-1 plugs, and problematic tutorials on how to contour your nose…. So imagine my delight circa mid-March, when my texts and DMs started blowing up with pics of Scrappy, […]
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the new Olympic mascots are these super cute stoats, look at them!
"Our stoats are two cheerful and easy-going teenagers, energetic, determined and strong-willed, sometimes charmingly irreverent towards adults and eager to assert their role as protagonists in the world to come," the Milano Cortina organizing committee wrote."
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5621915/winter-olympics-mascots-milo-tina
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Good Morning #Canada
Happy Plush Animal Lover’s Day to all who celebrate this special holiday. Because we are an inclusive country, I hope all you Furries out there have a special day as well.
Today's holiday would be a good day to review Canada's top sports mascots because why not. Today, I learned that Curling Canada has a mascot, although it's not an animal. He/She has a curling stone for a head. I may disagree with the ranking - IMO, the Raptor should be ranked higher and Youppi! deserves #1 status - but overall, it's a decent collection of Canadian wildlife. The Canada Goose is missing, and sports teams are missing a lot of marketing mayhem by not having a Beaver mascot. I suspect there are some great mascots at lower levels of organized sport, or at the college/university level.#CanadaIsAwesome #Mascots
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It’s weird. It’s adorable. Osaka Expo’s collaboration with Labubu dials up the ugly cuteness of its beloved blobby mascot, Myaku-Myaku. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/09/27/style-design/osaka-expo-labubu-myaku-myaku/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #styledesign #osaka #2025osakaexpo #myakumyaku #mascots
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Our little travel friend - Constantine the Octopus, from the energy company 😁
We’ve actually got a few friends in the car - Steve the otter, Red and Mr Frog (from the National Trust) and Maurice (Mo) the monkey that hangs off the indicator stick.
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🤦♂️ So #BART, in its infinite wisdom, decided that #anime #mascots are the key to fixing overcrowded trains and delays. 🚂💨 Because obviously, cartoon characters are exactly what commuters need when they're late for work! 😂
https://www.bart.gov/news/fun/anime #Overcrowding #Commuter #Humor #Transportation #Solutions #HackerNews #ngated -
The video, shared by Porto City Hall, shows Kissing Day filled with hugs and kisses in iconic city spots. 💋 Mascots Jeco, Vita, and Cascas were warmly welcomed by locals and visitors alike. 🎉 #video #Porto #kissingday #mascots #portoambiente #municipalpolice #Portugal
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Countries participating in the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka are taking on Japan's love of mascots by coming up with characters of their own, some of which incorporate the culture of the host country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/04/japan/society/expo-mascot/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #2025osakaexpo #osaka #mascots
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Billiken-san in Osaka, Japan
Up on the iconic Tsutenkaku Tower sits an American mascot that became Osaka’s own lucky god.#statues #shrines #mascots #section-Atlas
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More than 100 folks have contributed data that powers MascotMap. I am so happy to have so many folks engaging with the map in this unusual way. Thank you everyone!!
While you're there, be on the lookout for unmapped long jump, high jump, and pole vault pits.
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as someone who's both into Eurovision and mascots, it's weird but fun seeing my favourites intersect like this.
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okay so the Swiss broadcaster revealed the runners up of the Eurovision Mascot Contest 2025 and this was 5TH PLACE!? I LOVE EM ALREADY. If anything happened to this little guy I would kill everyone in the room and then myself.
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As an objectum guy I don't know how to feel about the Eurovision 2025 mascot tbh... my first thought was "AI", then the second was "...Ed Sheeran?"
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Everyone has been enjoying mapping school mascot info so that calls for an actual map! Feel free to contribute icons in the repo and of course more data to the database.
Yes that is a school that has a potato for a mascot. The fightin’ russets!
https://github.com/watmildon/HighSchoolMascotMap
