Yeah! The tanuki is the mascot for Ponta, which is like a points card thing affiliated with Lawson’s that you can use in Japan to get discounts and things. I guess if you went to one of the (now defunct) Sega arcades, you could get this if you redeemed 300 Ponta points. I’ve seen the Ponta collab stuff a lot for sale on Mercari and the Japanese Yahoo! auctions site.
So an plan I had for the artist alley event before deciding to scrap the idea was to make Pui Pui Molcar buttons. I tried to do it towards all the characters that appeared in the video game version of the series and wanted to focus on them being button themed faces. I did not do all of the characters within the game series either but did my best with the ones I have produced.
I watched natsume book of friends recently and I instantly fell in love so i read the rest of the manga afterwards and needed to draw some quick fanart. probably gonna draw matoba seiji (because God dammit he is hot) and misuzu (because horse) soon.
and then you have Skeleton Knight in Another World.. wayyyy too much SA to recommend it. but if you can handle that.. nice j-rock banger OP, story/action decent overall, but what really keeps me watching is this adorable lil critter. Ponta is love, Ponta is life.