Funassyi Travel Bug
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Owner:
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the Monkey King
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Released:
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015
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Origin:
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Victoria, Australia
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Funassyi (ふなっしー ) is a Japanese Pear mascot character, unofficially representing the city of Funabashi, Chiba, Japan.
Normally Japanese local mascot characters move slowly and do not speak. Funassyi, however, speaks and sometimes shrieks, jumps, and makes violent movements like headbanging. When it speaks, it usually ends its sentences with "nassyi" which sounds like the Japanese word for "pear" (nashi).
Funassyi has a lot of Fans, especially in Japan and Taiwan, but isn't so well known in Western Countries.
At a press conference in Japan (see photo below) Funassyi stated: “I started with no fans at all, and they built up one by one,” Funassyi said. “Japanese people have always rooted for the underdog, and I think seeing a solitary pear working hard all by itself really made an impression on people and they empathized with me.”
Funassyi’s future dream is to help carry the Olympic flame at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
“I want to be a torch runner so much that I would even sacrifice the flower on top of my head in the flame,” it said.
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