Word: tanuki
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...There were mysterious stories about all these hills," he says, stories of tanuki, strange raccoon-dogs invested with mischievous, magical powers. He tells of a boy who used to go up into the mountains for birds' eggs; the birds nested in the mountains' muddy surface. "One day he asked me to go with him, but I was busy. By evening he had not returned home. His parents were very concerned, and they organized a search party. When the search party came upon the boy, they found him walking in a huge circle, round and round. He kept repeating, 'I have...
...very best anime deal with human uncertainties that are universal in scope. One prominent theme is concern about the deterioration of the environment. For example, anime great Isao Takahata, recently released the film "Heisei Gassen Tanuki Ponpoko", which revolves around the superficially hilarious attempts of anthropomorphized raccoons to survive and adjust to a world where their natural habitat is being destroyed...
Minks still account for more than half of all sales, but many young shoppers are looking for something different. Among the options are a yellow rabbit ski jacket with black skiers stenciled all over it, a sheared muskrat with silk-screen Dalmatian dots, and blond Tanuki raccoons with sleeves spiraled like a barber's pole...
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