| Does someone still have a primary school book of 'Art' dated back in 1980s? I bet we can find a lot of characters look exactly the same as the new mascots... (I still remember the days that I often got very low points from the art teacher when we were asked to imitate those things), in that way we can prove they had nothing to do with the 'Japanese Cute'. Actually those kind of pictures we started to have already on kindergarten walls, so that's more than 20 years ago ...
And really I don't feel they look like the 'Japanese Cute', therefore no need to start a topic that when did the Japanese start to borrow our school art book characters ;-) But, but, I don't like these mascots, because of the same reason that I didn't liked their 'brothers and sisters' in my school art book 20 years ago... they look so dull, not at all creative, no imagination. I have to say that I am disappointed to see the mascots - I had expected some better design. However, there must be a lot other Chinese who liked them, or I wouldn't have read that customers were queuing to get those? |
Beijing 2008 Olympic Mascots