Ministry of Finance to issue commemorative 500 yen coin for 2025 World Expo featuring mascot Myaku-Myaku

11 comments

1. the thing that looks like something between a walking virus cell and a Clicker from The Last of Us?

2. Hideous

3. The question is, can you use this for vending machinessss???!!

4. waste of time and money

5. LOL more inflation, more value loss of Yen against USD I guess

6. Lol my dumbass read it too fast and thought they were gonna mint a 500 yen Hatsune Miku coin

7. OMG why would you want to waste time and money on this?

8. Ah yes. Another coin for the ramen machine to reject.

   Thank you.

9. I cannot image how this was selected from list of character they prepared. I wanna know what other characters were even in that list for consideration

10. You can also get some [shoes!](https://jpn.mizuno.com/ec/disp/attgrp/B1GS2500/)

11. I want one. But I want it to put with the coin my great grandma got at the Chicago world fair.

    I live near enough to Osaka that it’s just a weekend trip for me, so I’m definitely doing it.