Cats, goats, owls — they're all old news. 2016 is the year of the tanuki. A tanuki, commonly mistaken for a badger or a raccoon, is actually an atypical species of dog known in Japan. Twitter user ...

BMX your way into the hearts of all the townsfolk as a mail delivery TANUKI: Pon’s Summer! You’ve got one month to save up enough to restore the shrine for the Great Tanuki Festival. Deliver packages, ...

If the current trend of AI-generated Studio Ghibli memes is leaving a bad taste, then take comfort in Tanuki: Pon's Summer, a cosy-looking indie game (albeit with a cheeky BMX-ing tanuki), which you ...

Since 7th century A.D., Tanuki have been cast in Japanese folklore as sneaky but benevolent rascals. More recently, a “raccoon dog” starred in the Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko and featured in Super ...

We love violent, gritty, action-packed games, but all that bloodshed can get a bit overwhelming sometimes. That's when we need cute, cozy adventure games to come along and take the edge off, and in ...

Critical Reflex and Denkiworks dropped a new reveal this week at the 2024 Tokyo Game Show, as Tanuki: Pon's Summer is coming to PC and Xbox consoles. Created by the same minds that brought the ...

The tanuki is a wild canid species native to Japan that is related to wolves, foxes, and domestic dogs. It's also known as the Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus) and is a ...

Thanks to the power of social media, there's a new viral hit on the block — the tanuki just shot to fame (and/or public obsession) after the Twittersphere stumbled across pictures of the creature.