Binchō-tan

Binchō-tan is a mascot character created by manga artist Takahito Ekusa and produced by game goods company Alchemist. Her name is a play on the words binchōtan (備長炭), which is a type of charcoal, and -tan, which is a suffix created by the mispronunciation of -san by young children. Stemming from this, she and the other characters in her anime/manga are moe anthropomorphic representations of different types of charcoal. Binchō-tan is depicted as wearing a block of charcoal on her head to pronounce this fact. Binchō-tan is a young girl who lives alone in an old house in the mountains. Her ...