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Cute Yet Bloodthirsty Japanese Mascot Wants You to Donate Blood

By Alex in Medicine, Pictures on Nov 25, 2008 at 3:04 am


That’s Kokoron-chan, a Japanese mascot to inspire people to donate blood. Leave it to the Japanese to spice up a blood donation drive with a cute (and bloodthirsty) mascot that looks a lot like the Kool-Aid Man.

Pink Tentacle has more of Japan’s blood mascots: Link


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  1. anotherguy
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 5:40 am

    kirby?

  2. vertol
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 6:11 am

    Chansey?

  3. Yijing
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 8:43 am

    Looks like kirby, but what I know It's damn cute.

  4. Corvus
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 9:23 am

    I find that thing quite disturbing, and I wear a disembodied human heart for jewelry. I can comfort myself knowing I managed to get myself banned from donating for three year this summer, I suppose. Nobody wants my blood.

  5. earbox
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    Oh yeah!

  6. mishelley
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    why does everything the Japanese make look like Pokemon?

  7. Gauldar
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    I would so get in that just to run around and yell "Blood for the blood god"!

  8. seekshelter
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    that thing will also steal your soul...

  9. Ali S.
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

    You know they should've given it a giant syringe.

  10. seekshelter
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    syringe?? nahh...look at that mouth..it'll just suck it right out of your pores

  11. sise
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    OooOOooo I wanna hug it!

  12. doood
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    Isnt there a pokemon that looks EXACTLY like that?

  13. Evilbeagle
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    That's something out of a nightmare you have when you forget to eat something and faint after giving blood.

  14. Rocky Rook
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    Creepy

  15. vero4902
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 10:14 pm

    It's adorable... but I just feel that when you get closer, it's whispering "bloooooooood... bbbblllllloooooood..."... I have issues, apparently.

  16. Skipweasel
    Nov 26th, 2008 at 11:06 am

    When I first gave blood, many years ago, the mobile clinic had a Snoopy poster on the window. Snoopy, wearing a red-lined cape, arms outspread, with the caption "Dracula LIVES".

    Shame some killjoy would probably stop them doing it now.

  17. liphttam1
    Nov 27th, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Cirby sucked up a nurse and thro

  18. liphttam1
    Nov 27th, 2008 at 11:49 am

    sorry and through the power at dracula... Sorry

  19. rudy
    Jan 26th, 2009 at 7:32 am

    These blood donation centers are government run. The Japanese Red Cross is different. They use celebs in their commercials not mascots
    http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/yui-ichikawa-and-nana-eikura-in-japane se-red-cross-commercial/

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