Fukuppy (フクッピー, fukuppī, pronounced [ɸɯ̥kɯꜜppiː]) was the short-lived English name of a mascot of the Japanese company Fukushima Industries. The mascot has the form of a genderless anthropomorphic egg with red feet, little blue wings, and a happy smiling face.

2013年10月17日 · Earlier this week the world was introduced to the unfortunately-named Fukuppy, a happy egg with names, who is the new mascot for Japanese refrigerator company Fukushima Industries. Although the...

2013年10月15日 · Japan's Fukushima Industries said Tuesday it was rethinking its "Fukuppy" mascot, after the Internet erupted in sniggers over a name that recalls the catalogue of mishandling at the Fukushima...

2013年10月15日 · So Fukuppy is actually a very nice name for a mascot in Japanese. Thus it would appear that the moniker for Fukushima's new mascot was created by combining the idea of "happiness" with "Fuku (shima)".

2013年10月14日 · Social media platforms over the weekend were brimming with sarcastic critiques of a Japanese refrigerator manufacturer’s newest unofficial mascot, Fukuppy. The winged-egg character was reportedly...

It is purely a mascot for an Osaka-based company created with a name that, when pronounced as intended in Japanese ("Foo Koo Pee"), has no relation to what people think it spells. The company's mistake is using unnecessary English letters in showing the character. Everyone else's mistake is how they think it's pronounced. Welcome to Skeptics!

2013年10月16日 · Social media users seized on the winged ovum's name to ridicule Fukushima Industries' mascot, with initial reports linking the upbeat ovum with Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The Fukushima plant...

2013年10月16日 · Fukushima Industries has now withdrawn the English name of the mascot. In a statement, it apologised “profusely” and said: “It seems that the transliteration of the name of our corporate mascot into the English alphabet has been mistakenly associated with some unsavoury words by people living in English-speaking countries.”

Fukuppy was probably not the best name to give a character intended to promote a company called Fukushima Industries, especially as for most of the world, the company name evoked images of one of the worst nuclear reactor accidents in history. Fukuppy,…

Fukuppy (フクッピー, fukuppī, pronounced [ɸɯ̥kɯꜜppiː]) was the short-lived English name of a mascot of the Japanese company Fukushima Industries. The mascot has the form of a genderless anthropomorphic egg with red feet, little blue wings, and a happy smiling face.