FG member
den4 wrote to me a
couple of days ago:
…Tokyu Hands had a whole slew of screwy looking Kewpie mutants, from the body builder Kewpie to the zombie Kewpie.
Hot damn, I found an army of Kewpie Mutants, which to directly quote the Tokyo Hands website are:
"The collaboration of the dream of prettiness the Rose O’Neill’s original Kewpie and extreme popularity characters without reason."
The reason that the Kewpies are invading is the upcoming centenary of the
original 1909 character of Kewpie by Rose O’Neill. Tokyu Hands is selling mutants like the Astro Boy kewpie, Ninja Hattori kewpie, Kitaro kewpie, and even a skeletal SHOCKER kewpie a la Kaman Rider.

3yen.com/2008-06-06/screw-kewpie...