would you care for some moe tea

going to become the mondo mascots guy but for moe personifications that people have forgotten about

here’s fuukitan, the green tea girl developed to support a healthy otaku lifestyle, based on the benifuuki tea cultivar purported to have anti-allergic benefits. she was sold as a garage kit at wonfes summer 2005 alongside instant tea bags, with new kits then being produced annually until at least 2008. promotional and packaging materials were designed by balcolony, one of their first projects before they would do the same for every manga and anime you’ve heard of

benifuuki was only first commercialized in the 90s after being developed at the makurazaki tea research station. tea research is serious business in japan, so much that there are two tea research stations under the division of tea research for japan’s independent agriculture agency, NARO. maybe she is as young as she looks, then?