Yotsuba & Danbo
Rondo Robe label has posted stop-motion short featuring the Yotsuba&! (よつばと! )manga’s cardboard robot suit Danbo as part of their “20th Anniversary with Danboard” campaign.
Yotsuba&! is an ongoing Japanese comedy manga series by Kiyohiko Azuma, the creator of Azumanga Daioh.
The series has no continuing plot―the focus of the stories is Yotsuba’s daily voyage of discovery.
The tone can be summarized by the motto, used on chapter title pages and advertising, “Today is always the most enjoyable day”!
Earlier this year, a Thai public TV show began using Danbo as a mascot character. Several life-size replicas of Danbo’s Amazon variant also appeared in last year’s Pride Parade in Seattle; the online retailer Amazon is headquartered in that city.