Auspicious Confectioneries

The New Year holidays have finished. Now we can find some little special snacks or sweets in shops. They are lucky snacks or sweets for the people who have entrance exams for university, high school, junior high school, and so on this year. Each of these sweets has original phrases that relate to passing the exam.
KitKat is the first sweet that started to be sold as such special sweets. The phrase of KitKat is “Kitto Katsu (means I’m sure of passing exam).” They also made not only the phrase but also the special taste of cherry KitKat.
“U Karl” is also very famous. In this package, the man, Karl’’s character, with a mustache, says, “Maybe you can pass the exam if you do your best” in a Shinto priest costume. On the back of the package, there is a message from a man named Iri Manabu. Please try to write his name in Kanji.
“Koala no March” is also sold this way because “Koalas do not fall down even while sleeping.” Prints of koalas on the snacks are changed from normal koalas to koalas that have cherry blossoms or acceptance letters.
“Toppo” can make you reach the “Toppa” the examination. “Caramel Corn” is changed into “Canael corn.” “High lemon” was changed into “Hairerumon”.
There are many more of these kinds of sweets. If you have a friend who has an entrance exam this year, why don’t you eat them on the day of the exam?

116-3 Hanako Okamoto