Yeah, I feel like I might make more fan-content based around this decent gem from Netflix as time goes on. Also love his unibrow btw. Even I feel like he's one of those modern original characters that does feature a unibrow in these recent times (who also isn't based on a real person with a unibrow).
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I recently got reminded by this Netflix series again... Haven't played it before as we don't got Netflix ever since like over a decade by now (and unfortunately, it had a pretty short life span on the platform... Yeah, that's another reason I don't like streaming at times. Not only they take certain shows down from other companies due to licensing contracts, but they even take the unique ones down that were originally made for the platform like the interactive stuff made for Netflix).
Not to mention he is one of those "jerk characters" that I like alongside with Bender (Futurama), Ren (OG Ren & Stimpy only so far), Charlie (All Dogs go to Heaven), Paulie (from of course, Paulie), Kuromi (as she was originally like that in the Onegai My Melody anime, but really has tone-downed that kind of attitude in modern stuff like Supercute Adventures), Kuzco (The Emperor's New Groove), and Garfield the Cat from what I can recall. And I'm thinking about adding the PTT version of Chuck E. in there, but I'm not sure yet since I was heavily into the "Avenger" era back in 2024 and 2025 that I'm also about to start get into the "Coach" era (alongside with Tux) as I'm writing this out.
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Behold! I made this GIF from a certain YouTube video as it was one of those 90's Famitsu commercials that I just had to get. By th way, the GIF itself is also at normal speed.
It happens so quick, doesn't it? Even I did this commercial with three static screenshots that were previously posted on this very blog. At least you get to see Necky in animated action... briefly.
A bit early, but hey, just in time that I got this out! And as for the first pic, they're Ranrun from Punirunes as I got them wearing hats similar to Necky's red magician hat as if they were celebrating with him (at the time before I got a new adult).
As for this pic pic down here, it's a screenshot from the one official Famitsu website that has some little animations like the sparkles flashing or moving around and the top words popping up, but Necky (including the stuff coming from out of the hat) is pretty static. Should've done something a bit more with him when it comes to this 40th anniversary in my opinion (like a bit more merch, of course).
And I'm mainly talking about the specific ones that I've found that were officially drawn by Susumu Matsushita so far. Even I just wanted to get this out of the way first before I go into these characters, in one of my previous posts, I think I got a little confused that the main Crossword Clown mascot guy that we got was actually named: "Chibi-Kura" at some point before I realized that there was smaller clown guy that I wasn't paying attention to when I was trying to do a bit of research back then. It also doesn't help that there's no proper archive of these "Puzzle Mate" books since I can probably just imagine that these were "for kids" due to the brightly colored cartoony characters alongside with the official Susumu Matsushita website not updating and archiving the artist's future or some previous works ever since somewhere around the 2010's (if I'm not mistaken with that). Not to mention that I thought that the clown guy with the green hair that I thought of was supposed to be like the main Crossword Clown despite that's actually supposed to be like this prototype design (and they don't tell ya that) on how he's much taller and lankier compared to the finalized design on how he's much shorter now and etc... Even the actual "Chibi-Kura" character hasn't been used in a long while that can be considered a "lost character" by now ever since that brown little furry guy (AKA Peter, who is a cat) basically replaced him as he hangs out with Crossword Clown on a bunch of Crossword Mate covers.
Aside from already knowing Crossword Clown, Peter and Chibi-Kura's names, there's like a few other characters that I know of who has a name popped-up has that's "Bird-kun" (the orange bird fella with the yellow beak) and "King" (the lion wearing the crown) while I was trying to do a bit of research in Japanese. And it would've been nice if the official Susumu Matsushita website included those new characters by now.
As for the characters on what they're the mascots for, you already have Crossword Clown and that little furry guy that would casually appear on (but it used to been Chibi-Kura before that you-know-who replaced Chibi-Kura in many of Crossword Mate's future covers that I've already talked about before) and speaking of that little furry guy, he also has appeared without hanging around with the clown guy on one of the spin-offs called: "Crossword On!" as Peter's the main mascot for. And as for King and Bird-kun, King is the mascot for "Crossword Mega King" and Bird-kun's mascot position is for "Deluxe Crossword". Plus, as for the other character that I haven't mentioned yet, there seems to be another lion character than just King alone in this very case! And with that character, there's "Tamutamu-kun" as he's the mascot for "Super Crossword" (and he's a child btw).
So yeah, basically did my research on this whole list of mascots for the "Puzzle Mates" while writing this out.
Just some more ideas to get out of the way, so I can move onto future ideas for this game!
And so, what's been pictured here are:
1. Mac and cheese (my favorite)
2. The McChoco Potato... Aw, yeah! And I've heard about this ever since like a decade ago. But there's a way that you can do this at home if you get some fries (no matter if it's McDonald's fries or your own choice of fries) and some chocolate syrup to drizzle on there.
3. Popcorn (especially I'm going with the movie theater kind in this case)
4. Pudding
5. White Cheddar Cheez-Its
6. Cottage cheese
7. Confetti Cupcake Pop-Tarts
And finally, 8. Chocolate Chip Melonpan!
Probably I'll talk more about these foods within the game someday, but I also got some more possible food ideas to come.
Or at least tried to make Mario (in his "girl form") alongside with a custom coord since I can't to a M-shaped pattern for the shirt for this game. And not only I just recently made him in this game, but also in the PriPara 3DS games! Even I'm still planning to make an actual human version of him whenever that physical copy of Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream comes soon (as of writing this out).
With that said, you're definitely gonna see more G&B fan-content whenever I get that Tomodachi Life Switch game!
Yeah, I feel like I might make more fan-content based around this decent gem from Netflix as time goes on. Also love his unibrow btw. Even...
