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.
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