The same designers who created Shinjō-kun, the city’s official mascot character, also designed the mascot character Chiitan, who also gained popularity on social media acting unofficially as tourism ambassador.
The official website for TV Tokyo’s children’s programming block Kinder TV revealed on Friday that Yōkai Chiitan, the television anime for the mascot character Chiitan, has been delayed from its April 3 premiere.
The mascot character is based on a real-world female pet otter of the same name, who gained a social media following big enough to become the honorary tourism ambassador of the city of Susaki, Kochi.
The city recently decided to revoke the real otter’s status as a tourism ambassador.