3月22日，2025年日本世界博览会协会举行记者招待会，确认了吉祥物最终形象。该吉祥物的形象一经发布，不少日本网友直呼“心态崩了”。
 

 

今年3月，该协会公布了2025年大阪世博会官方吉祥物的三个最终候选作品，并开始公开征求意见。

 

It's easy to assume that this would be a difficult decision between a trio of instantly adorable, disarmingly cute characters, right?

你可能想当然地认为，在三个超级可爱的卡通形象中做选择一定很难，对吗？

 

Well……all three would-be goodwill¹ ambassadors for Expo 2025 are pretty disturbing. OK, Candidate A looks like it could have a sort of quirky charm, but Candidates B and C, with their irregularly shaped rings of eyes, definitely show stronger concentrations of creepiness than cuteness.

但是，这三个候选设计都相当奇特。除了作品A似乎还有一些奇怪的魅力，作品B和作品C形状不规则的眼睛看起来肯定惊悚大于可爱。

 

And yet, after taking the past few weeks to sift² through public reactions to the three candidates, Expo 2025's organizers have made their decision, and it won't be Candidate A representing the event, nor Candidate B, but Candidate C.

然而，在过去几周通过对三个候选设计的舆情分析，组委会已做出决定，最终脱颖而出的并不是设计A和设计B，而是设计C。

 

"We have decided³ on the character design," tweets the Expo 2025 official Twitter account. "We will raise it as a character that people all over the world will love and feel a sense of attachment⁴ to," the statement adds.

2025年世博会官方推特账号写道：“我们已经确定了吉祥物设计。”组委会表示，“将努力使它成为广受世界各国喜爱的形象”。

 

这一形象源自世博会的主题“生命的光辉”，同时也表现了大阪“水都”的形象，根据使用用途的不同，设计会改变形态。角色名称未定，今后将公开征集。

 

该吉祥物形象甫一出炉，日本网民就“炸”了。有推特网友评价道：

 

"When children see this character walking around, they're totally going to start crying and screaming."

“当孩子们看到这个东西四处走动时，可能会吓得大哭大叫。”

 

"So they're prepared not to sell any merch, right?"

“所以他们是不打算卖吉祥物周边了，是吗？”

 

"No way I'd buy a plushie, or anything else with that character on it."

“我不可能买这个吉祥物的毛绒公仔，或者任何有这个形象的东西。”

 

"It's like they took [Sesame Street's] Elmo, melted his body, [and put it on Cookie Monster]."

“这就像是把《芝麻街》里的埃尔莫的身体融化，（然后放在‘甜饼怪’身上）。”

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