Ochatomo - Your Little Tea Companion
Ah... a short article and unboxing of these cute little things called ochatomo (literally translated as tea friends/buddies). They hang or cling onto the lip
of your cup and essentially serve no better purpose than to look cute really. I
guess they are kind of Japan’s new in thing to have for accessorising personal
items. You really have got to give a hand to Japan to come up with these
awesome little adorable things.
I first encountered ochatomo in a store called Tokyu Hands,
a really popular and interesting Japanese departmental store that opened a few branches here
in Singapore not too long ago. I saw their office girl ochatomo and was curious
so to Google I went!
A few minutes later and of course…I ended up at Ami Ami… and so here we are
today…I’m a proud owner of a whole box of Kuroko no Basket ochatomo.
The cuteness of Kuroko…and nigou (the dog) I just couldn’t
resist when I saw the pictures!
Each individual box contains one ochatomo and one coaster
with the corresponding character’s picture on it.
Kuroko really looks so cute on my cup! They seem to fit snugly on thicker rims, if the cup rim is
too thin they might fall right off.
You can see that the figures are hand painted though…o.o…since
the paint is not even sometimes, overall it still looks good though. It makes me want to reach out to my cup to drink water…ah
haha…maybe it's a plot by the health department of Japan to get people to drink more liquids? Cuteness induced drinking?
Anyway, that’s all from me…I have a feeling that the Prince of Tennis Ochatomo is going to be on my pre-order list too.
~^^"
Written by Neko
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