Kadoi Butsuguten is calling her the first anthropomorphized butsudan in the industry, which is a wholly believable claim.
Kadoi Butsuguten hopes that the character will help to boost interest in butsudan among young people in Japan, who are leading more secular lifestyles than generations past.
The examples pictured above, sold by Kanagawa Prefecture-based company Kadoi Butsuguten, are fairly typical of the butsudan standing discreetly in many Japanese homes.
In its quest to anthropomorphize anything and everything, Japan has chosen some unlikely items to turn into illustrated anime girls.