[Opinion] Three Potential Successors to the "Suica Penguin" Have Been Revealed! Voting to Decide the New Character Begins Today.
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The candidates for the successor character to the "Suica Penguin," which will retire in March 2027, have been announced, and online voting began today. At a press conference today, JR East announced three candidates for a new character to replace the penguin, which has served as the image character since the introduction of Suica in 2001. The candidates were selected by a selection committee chaired by broadcast writer Kundo Koyama, and are base…
JR East has unveiled three candidate designs for its new Suica card character, and voting is open until September 23rd. The penguin character will retire in 2027, and its successor will be announced on November 18th. The candidates are A) an orange squirrel, B) a purple rabbit, and C) an orange mole in a pouch.
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) today (August 8th) announced three candidate mascots for its Suica IC card, to replace the beloved Suica penguin. Following the unveiling of the candidate designs, Japanese netizens have reacted with mixed opinions. According to Asahi TV, JR East President Yoichi Kisei announced the three candidates today and declared that online voting would begin at 3 PM today. The candidate characters are modeled after a …
On the 8th, JR East announced 3 candidates for succession characters for the image character “Watermelon Penguin” of the transportation IC card “Suica (watermelon),” which is scheduled to “graduate” at the end of 2026. I used motifs such as squirrels and rabbits.
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