Mameshiba
are weird, adorable creatures that are part bean and part dog. They star in a series of short videos, in which they appear to people in their food to give a random fact, usually one that's gross or demoralising. All the shorts, with English subtitles, can be found here.
Trops associated with Mameshiba:
- All There in the Manual: The website is probably the only place you can find out about the personality of different Mameshiba.
- Ambiguous Gender: It's impossible to tell what gender any of the Mameshiba are, since the only features they seem to have on their bodies are faces and ears, and they all speak with an androgynous, childish voice.
- Anthropomorphic Food
- Color Failure: Frequently happens to people who encounter them in the commercials.
- Eagleland: Jelly Bean's short is set in America with the characters speaking in English. It seemed like a rather positive, if not stereotypical, interpretation.
- From the Latin "Intro Ducere": In the first video, Green Pea, the trivia is that the French word for dandelion, "pissenlit", means "urinate in bed". Cocoa Bean's trivia is that tiramisu is Italian for "Take me to heaven."
- Gyaru Girl: Fava Bean's short features two of them.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: They are dogs... and also beans.
- Once an Episode: Each short has someone about to eat, when a Mameshiba suddenly starts talking to them and gives them an interesting fact. The person then decides they are no longer hungry.
- Punny Name: Mameshiba, apart from literally meaning "bean dog", is also a word used to refer to plushes modeled after a Shiba Inu. It is also a pun on the Japanese word for trivia, mamechishikinote . This in turn fits with the titular beans telling random trivia to whoever is about to eat them.
- Puppy-Dog Eyes
- Put Off Their Food: In most of the episodes on the website, when a certain bean appears on the screen and tells the person who is about to eat it some random fact, they immediately stop eating their food or say "I'm done now." Though every once in a while this ends being Inverted and the bean gets eaten.
- Quivering Eyes: They appear to do this, probably to look cuter.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Look at those faces!
- Spinoff Babies: The original Mameshiba are cute, but the Babyshiba shorts take it to another level for obvious reasons.
- Troll: They may or may not be aware of it, but the Mameshiba sometimes come off as this.
- Two of the best examples are probably the one where a Mameshiba tells a couple that kissing exchanges millions of germs and another who tells an older lady who is watching a romantic movie that a species of duck stops loving its partner after building their nest.
