And he's an egg ... foodie character to debut following a special online competition Sanrio ran last year. (In February "Kirimi-chan," a sassy salmon fillet, also became a cartoon thing.) ...

SINGAPORE – The runaway popularity of Gudetama, a cartoon character from Japan’s Sanrio corporation, begs the question: Why have millennials so fervently embraced the slacker egg who is too ...

The latest character to join ... featuring the little egg. In it, an egg shell is cracked open and out pops Gudetama, a glob-like creature with arms and legs. Gudetama is pictured fried on rice ...

A first-of-its kind study finds that children consume more low-nutrition, high-calorie foods after observing plump cartoon characters. All of the kids perceived egg-shaped or ovoid characters as ...

Apart from Eeyore, Droopy, and maybe a couple of low-energy Smurfs, there aren’t too many sad, mopey characters in the pantheon of Western animation. Cartoon ... egg yolk who may be suffering ...

Who else would be hunting down burgers based on cartoon preference? “No not at all—it was almost all adults." When Heller found out Sanrio's newest character was an egg—already one of chef ...

It sighs, moans and can barely seem to keep its eyes open, laying slumped and supine in the white of the egg it uses as a duvet ... company mascot and canonical character in the Kitty world.