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Kogepan (こげぱん^?) is a Japanese character from the company San-X, who, like Sanrio creations Hello Kitty and Badtz Maru, can be found in books, anime, toys, stationery, and a number of other formats. The character is a burnt red bean bread bun who lives in a panya (Japanese bakery), trying to fit in and make friends with the other bread items. The name comes from kogeru, meaning to burn or char, and pan, a gairaigo word taken from Portuguese and meaning bread.

There are a number of other characters (breads) in the panya with Kogepan, including ichigopan (strawberry bread), kireipan (beautiful bread), kuriimupan (a burnt cream bread), and Sumipan, a bread even more burnt than Kogepan.

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Anime [link]

The anime series, animated by Studio Pierrot and produced by Pony Canyon, consisted of ten 4-minute shorts, the majority of which introduce simple aspects of the character.

Books [link]

There have been three children's picture books published in the Kogepan series, written & drawn by Takahashi Miki:

• Kogepan: Even Among Bread, They Meet One Another (こげぱん：パンにも出会いがあるらしい...^?)
• Kogepan: Even Among Bread, There Are Many Kinds (こげぱん：パンにもいろいろあるらしい...^?)
• Kogepan: What Is the Happiness of Bread? (こげぱん：パンのしあわせってなんだろう...^?)

External links [link]

• San-X Official Kogepan Page (Japanese)
• Official Page - Anime (Japanese)