Tokyo is way too cute. We’re all familiar with Hello Kitty, My Melody and the rest of the Sanrio characters. Then there are cutesy cartoon characters all over town doing everything from telling metro riders to watch for the closing doors, puppies on construction warning posters, a racoon informing you on the process of purchasing metro tickets, the iconic Doraemon shaking his thaaang for a delivery service, stuffed toys of the shinkansen, smiley faces on toilet tissue, shapes of stars from the kupi mayo, happy loaves of bread, and of course Hachi-ko is seen pretty much everywhere around Shibuya. The colors are soft and pastel adding to the cartoonish and the cute. It does, however, give some character and ligten up the otherwise, bland information posters and signs all over town.
