海外の反応-Suicaのペンギン、2026年度末で“卒業”へ 新マスコットにバトンタッチ予定

Suica’s Penguin will “graduate” by end of fiscal year 2026, to be replaced with new mascot
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This just ruined my day.

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Climate change claims another victim

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People of Tokyo you better mass protest this shit

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I hope so, just like when Donki tried to replace Donpen

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Why do they hate penguins?

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This will backfire and the penguin will remain. Either that or JR crumbles. EDIT: Mark my words.

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JR crumbles. I wish. Renationalize it. Bring back JNR.

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Old logo was so based, as was their flag

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sad noot noot

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I like how things graduate. It sounds better than “retire,” somehow. Like life is still ahead of the little penguin—lots of adventures left to have!

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Propaganda phrasing to make people OK with this. >_<

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There’s also a slight semantic difference between “graduate” and 卒業

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Did they finally realize that a penguin is not a watermelon?

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It’s because of すいすい, “swiftly, smoothly” which is how it lets you pass through the ticket gates and also how a penguin swims through water. Chiharu Sakazaki had created the character for a children’s book in 1998 (three years before Suica’s debut) and JR East licensed it for use on the card.

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Huh, TIL

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they’ll have to pry my penguin suica from my cold dead hands

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I saw a vending machine selling the suica penguin merchandise a few weeks in a train station. I didn’t even know he had merch lol

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I’ve got a t-shirt from Graniph which is simple, but cute. Everything in Japan has merch.

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Every day we stray further from god

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This is terrible news. I like the penguin. The Suica card looks so much better than the Icoca and Pasmo cards.

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We kept a Kitaca from Sapporo with the cutest flying squirrel.

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So… they are the same thing Don Quijote was doing a couple of years back, when they wanted to replace Donpen?
Remind me please… How did that work out again?

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It’s a shame. Suica Penguin is our favorite mascot. This little guy is so precious. We even named our dutch bunny after him.
First they replaced many of the yamanote line jingles with more generic ones and now this.

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What a tragedy for Japan and therefore the world

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Nooo

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This is maybe because JR East does not want to pay licensing fee to the illustrator anymore.

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most likely. the for-profit company found a way to save even more money

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No, suica is rebranding to compete with PayPay in 2027. They will support a high balance, QR code, etc. They decided that a new logo, but the same name, is the perfect balance to keep brand recognition and also promote a major change. Will they follow through? I doubt so. The cynic in me think that this is part of a PR stunt. People are surprised and curious about the move and I’ve already seen a segment on Zip News about it and why they are doing it. Essentially getting news programs to advertise their plans for their new payment system. In the end, I think they will keep the penguin and add a “plus” or some mark to the new card.

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well damn, I wish I got myself a Suica card. I won’t be able to go to Japan next year. Maybe I will ask someone to buy for me.
they better not replace the Icoca mascot.

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I’m happy to send you one if needed! (I mail people Japanese IC cards a lot haha, especially ones from my city.) I’m passing through Tokyo later this week, so do let me know if so!
But – making reasonable assumptions here – you’ll have until at least early 2027, so that’s a while from now!

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ICOCAs platypus finally wins! Ahahaha!

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A watermelon 🍉 man with stick legs.

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