FREE: Kogepan! SAN-X hardcover manga book - Hokkaidō burari tabinikki

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RARE 2003 SAN-X Japanese kawaii manga book - hardcover with dust jacket.

very good used condition!
has a japanese stamp inside front cover, (see photo number 5) dust jacket and top spine corner show shelf wear. Otherwise excellent!

こげぱん : 北海道ぶらり旅日記 /
Kogepan : Hokkaidō burari tabinikki

Author: たかはしみき著 たかはし, みき, Miki Takahashi

Publisher: ソニー・マガジンズ, San-X

Language : completely Japanese! (reads right to left.)

subjects: hokkaidō -- kikō.

Kogepan (こげぱん) is a Japanese character from the company San-X, who, like Sanrio creations Hello Kitty and Badtz Maru, can be found in books, anime, toys, stationery, and a number of other formats. The character is a burnt red bean bread bun who lives in a panya (Japanese bakery), trying to fit in and make friends with the other bread items. The name comes from kogeru, meaning to burn or char, and pan, a gairaigo word ("borrowed word") taken from Portuguese and meaning bread.

There are a number of other characters (breads) in the panya with Kogepan, including ichigopan (strawberry bread), kireipan (beautiful bread), kuriimupan (a burnt cream bread), and Sumipan, a bread even more burnt than Kogepan.

(from the unofficial kogepan site)
"Kogepan : Literally "Burnt Bread", Kogepan is the central character. He was accidentally burned in a horrific bakery accident and has since roamed the bakery, miserable and depressed, looking for some purpose in life. Kogepan would like nothing better than to be sold like all the pretty, popular, uncharred breads - but alas, this is only a dream to him now!
He now spends most of his days getting drunk on milk, and hanging out with his friend Kuriimupan and generally making a nuisance of himself around and about the bakery. The other breads respect Kogepan but he generally shows indifference towards everyone else. "

so cute!

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