Department of Happily Married Couples

[Bucky]

[MeinJapanLongTime]

Those have to be the most depressing looking mascots ever!

[Red Floyd]

Didn't Yubari have a major film festival there for a while or something?

[Taro Toporific]

the Yubari Fusai icon, proved to be a potent vehicle in generating WOM

Those have to be the most depressing looking mascots ever!

Photos via http://yubarifusai.jp/about.html

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Beautiful Yubari tour..
http://kurumiohanablog.seesaa.net/article/107329942.html

[INDENT]The obsession over those dumbed down cute mascots
japantimes.co.jpAug. 3, 2008
....for the past decade or so there has been a marked increase in the popularity of one species of mascot called "yuru-kyara." The second half of this word stands for "character," while "yuru" is from the adjective "yurui," which means "light" or "weak," though in this case the nuance is that of being unserious, unfinished, unimportant....
....NHK interviewed design houses that are purposely dumbing down their creations to make them look more like yuru-kyara. A foreign ad agency created the Yubari Fusai characters for the city of Yubari in Hokkaido, which famously filed for bankruptcy last year. "Fusai" has two meanings, "debt" and "married couple." The characters are two roughly drawn figures dressed in ragged clothes with Yubari melons on their heads. At first, the citizens weren't flattered, but through the sheer persistence of familiarity the characters have caught on...
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[Iraira]

By both of these characters having only one eye each, are they inadvertantly saying that having "no money but love" is equivalent to having no depth perception?

[sublight]

By both of these characters having only one eye each, are they inadvertantly saying that having "no money but love" is equivalent to having no depth perception?

Well, the city was certainly lacking in foresight.

[Doctor Stop]

Well, the city was certainly lacking in foresight.

Well, we all can't have 20/20 vision.