日本世博会吉祥物公布，日本网民“炸”了

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We are just three years away from Expo 2025, which will be held in Osaka from April 13 to October 13 2025. The Japan Association for the World 2025 Exposition released its logo in 2020, but now the event has an official mascot as well.

2025年世博会将于2025年4月13日至10月13日在日本大阪举行。日本2025年世界博览会协会于2020年发布了其会徽，但现在该活动也有了官方吉祥物。

This character was selected based on an open call for mascot designs held from November 1 to December 1 2021. A whopping total of 1,898 designs were submitted, and three made it to the final shortlist, but ultimately it was graphic designer and illustrator Kohei Yamashita’s submission that won the final vote.

这个吉祥物是在2021年11月1日至12月1日举行的吉祥物设计公开征集活动中选出的。活动共提交了1898件设计作品，其中有3件进入了最终候选名单，最终美术设计师兼插画家山下洋平的作品胜出。

When Expo 2025 first unveiled its logo, some netizens remarked that the emblem’s blue dots looked a bit like eyes. Yamashita’s design leans into that impression by incorporating the logo as the face of the mascot. Because Osaka is sometimes referred to as Japan’s city of water, the mascot is depicted as a shapeshifter that can take on many forms, just like water. Organisers are still picking out a name for the character, but are expected to announce their final decision sometime this April.

在2025年世博会首次推出其标志时，一些网友就评论说会徽的蓝点看起来有点像眼睛。而山下洋平的设计通过将徽标作为吉祥物的面孔融入了这种元素。因为大阪有时被称为日本的水之城，于是吉祥物被描绘成一个可变形者，可以有多重形态，就像水一样。组织者仍在为角色挑选一个名字，预计今年四月的某个时候宣布他们的最终决定。