Irresistable Cuties

Just about everything in Japan has a cute character associated with it - even fighter jets! The most common type though, is the food character. Even "nato", Japan's famously foul-smelling fermented soybean dish has it's own character: Nato-Chan. She brings a veritable taste sensation to your mouth, along with her friends shoyu-man (soy sauce man), negi-ko (shallot-kid), tofu-chan (tofu girl), karashi-chan (mustard girl), miso-chan (fish-paste girl), tounyu-chan (tofu-milk-girl), kinakoko (soy flour kid), yubarin (tofu paper thing). Though it's a bit morbid how the poor little guys are being snapped up by chopsticks and devoured. It's kind of like the sentient cow in the restaurant at the end of the universe that urges you to try out its tastiest bits.