[Mysterious characters too!?] Look back at the past mascots of the Yakult team! Who is the first Yakult unofficial mascot that was sleeping in Urasoe?

One of the few things that Yakult fans can be proud of over other teams is the team mascot.
There are some people who are fans of other teams but like Tsubakuro.

Around the time of the Yuru-kyara boom, the mascots of each team started to attract attention, and now they are indispensable for team management and fan measures.

In this article, we will introduce Yakult's current mascots such as the old Tsubakuro, as well asPast mascots that retired long ago and the first Yakult team mascot that was sleeping in a warehouse in Okinawa PrefectureI have summarized about this.

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table of contents

Tsubakuro
Tsubami
1. Character characteristics
2. love affair
Torcuya
Entaro
Yabo & Sue-chan
1. List of reference articles

Tsubakuro

Source: news.netkeiba.com

First of all, it's no exaggeration to say that Tsubakuro is the face of the Yakult team.
Born in 1994. The team mascot successfully celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2019.
Tsubakuro was slim when he first appeared, but now he has a lower abdomen.

He is the only exhibitionist among the 12 teams' mascots who does not wear a uniform, and is the first professional baseball mascot to play in 1,000 consecutive games.

He debuted in the same year as Chunichi's Doara and is both a rival and a good friend.

Character characteristics

Anyway, she has a free-spirited and self-paced personality.
The origin of the name Tsubakuro isadult circumstances'' said Tsubakuro, and the old name of ``Tsubame'' means that the tsuba is strong in close matches, and that baseball is a game of nine players who struggle to win close games.

When he first appeared, Tsubakuro was slim, but now he has a completely metabolic body.
It is sometimes referred to as the "Animal Pen" because it engages in many acts that are unbecoming of a mascot, such as writing black jokes that incorporate current events on its flips and assaulting children and other mascots.

By the way"Animal Pen = Animal + Penguin”.

Contract renewal

Although Tsubakuro is a mascot, his contract is renewed every year just like the players.
In the past, he has been making fun of Yakult fans during the offseason, such as when he became the first mascot in history to declare himself a free agent, and when he showed up late and was unilaterally told by the team to maintain the status quo.

Tsubakuro's contract renewal is usually done as a big deal after the player's contract renewal is completed.
It is customary for Yakult's team office to pay off their work on this day, but there have been years when it has passed due to adult circumstances.

dinner show

Source: www.sponichi.co.jp

Doara Tsubakuro's Christmas Dinner Show started in 2015 due to Tsubakurou's request, ``I want to do a dinner show!''

For the first time in 2015, the 360 seats sold out within an hour of going on sale.
Since then, Tsubakuro and Doara's dinner show has been held every year at the end of the year, but since around 2017, it has been held in Tokyo, Nagoya, Chiba, and Fukuoka, and not only Tsubakuro and Doara, but also Chiba is a market. In Fukuoka, Harry Hawk is participating in the mascot dinner show.

It has become a popular dinner show every year with talk shows, readings, and raffles.

person inside

Tsubakuro took first place in the Central League mascot general election with over 70% of the votes.

Who is Tsubakuro's ``inner person'', considering his cunning and scheming character? It seems that many people are concerned about this.

Actually, in the 1995 Swallows fan book,Special feature on people inside Tsubakurowas set up.
They probably didn't expect it to become this popular.

After that, there was a feeling that the episode about the person inside was sealed, but in 2018, an incident occurred where the person inside Tsubakuro was reflected in the Instagram live of Karasiti, a foreign helper at the time.

Looking at it, it seems that the person inside has not changed since Tsubakuro was born.

Tsubami

Tsubami is the mascot that appeared as a younger sister in 1999, five years later than Tsubakuro.
The mascot, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019, has been a long-running mascot along with Tsubakuro.

In the Central League mascot general election, he did well, coming in 4th place despite being a sub-mascot.

Character characteristics

Tsubami has often been witnessed being bullied by her older brother Tsubakuro, but recently she has also been bullied by her older brother Tsubakuro.Kick in the passion of the official dance teamHis resemblance to his older brother has also become a hot topic.

He is good at dancing and is also popular for his passionate and sharp dances.
He started an official blog with Tsubakuro in 2013, but he moved his activities to Instagram in March 2019 because he was tired of being compared to his older brother.

love affair

She likes good-looking guys, and her official blog often features her love affairs with Yakult players and other team mascots.

In particular, Lotte's team mascot, Ma-kun, and player Sakaguchi, who joined Yakult in 2016, have shown their pushy sides, such as forcing them to sign the "Kon-in Notification" they made themselves.

Torcuya

Source: sponichi.co.jp

Yakult's latest mascot was announced in June 2014 following Entaro's sudden retirement.
When the new mascot was first announced, there were a lot of negative reviews about its appearance, such as ``gross!'' and ``pervert.'' However, it has recently been well-received by fans, with people graciously agreeing to take photos when they go to Jingu Stadium. ing.

Initially, the character was a masked wrestler from Mexico, but recently, Torcuilla's gender has become a hot topic as his poses and gestures seem more conspicuous.

One theory is that the person inside changed to onee around 2016. Some people say.

Entaro

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Entaro has a face similar to Tsubakuro, but because of his slim build, he was introduced by the Yakult baseball team in 2005 as a mascot for acrobatic personnel.

She is particularly good at breakdancing, and her sharp movements have become a hot topic.

During an exchange game with Orix, she was accused of sexual harassment after she made slights to Buffalo Bell, such as lifting her skirt and hugging her like a princess.
(Some fans misunderstood that it was the work of Tsubakuro, who has the same face, and Tsubakuro suffered reputational damage.)

Although he appeared in the Hakone Ekiden, he was not well-known and was not well-known, and although he started a blog to raise his profile, he did not update it frequently and continued to use the same photos over and over again, making it difficult for him to become well-known.

It is not certain whether these are the causes, butRetired in May 2014will be announced.
Regarding Entaro's retirement, the timing of the announcement and the confirmed date were unclear, and there were voices of regret for Entaro's retirement due to the impact of his successor Torcuya's appearance, but current Yakult fans still feel nostalgic about his retirement. It is treated like a character.

Yabo & Sue-chan

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Introduced in 1979 as the first mascot character in the history of professional baseball.Yabo & Sue-chanis.

By the way, these two are the team's unofficial mascots and are a couple.
Yabo and Sue-chan, who took over as team mascots with the arrival of Tsubakuro, are now located in Urasoe City, Okinawa Prefecture, a well-known campsite for Yakult.

Apparently it was made around 2004 to commemorate the Urasoe camp.Yakult baseball team donated to Urasoe CityThat seems to be the trigger.

It was discovered in a warehouse at Urasoe City Hall in 2014, and after it was restored, it appeared in a traffic safety campaign, etc., and it became a hot topic, saying, ``What the hell is Tsubakuro?'' and it was later discovered that it was ``Yabo & Sue-chan.''

He often appears at events held in Urasoe City.

List of reference articles

・Tsubakuro comes in first place/Everyone's general election results

・Will Entaro’s recommended new helper “Torcuya” become Yakult’s “savior”? ?

・[I want to know about camp] “Fake” Tsubakuro is “Japan’s oldest mascot”