2022-03-27

今年3月，该协会公布了2025年大阪世博会官方吉祥物的三个最终候选作品，并开始公开征求意见。

It's easy to assume that this would be a difficult decision between a trio of instantly adorable, disarmingly cute characters, right?

你可能想当然地认为，在三个超级可爱的卡通形象中做选择一定很难，对吗？

Well……all three would-be goodwill ambassadors for Expo 2025 are pretty disturbing. OK, Candidate A looks like it could have a sort of quirky charm, but Candidates B and C, with their irregularly shaped rings of eyes, definitely show stronger concentrations of creepiness than cuteness.

但是，这三个候选设计都相当奇特。除了作品A似乎还有一些奇怪的魅力，作品B和作品C形状不规则的眼睛看起来肯定惊悚大于可爱。

And yet, after taking the past few weeks to sift through public reactions to the three candidates, Expo 2025's organizers have made their decision, and it won't be Candidate A representing the event, nor Candidate B, but Candidate C.

然而，在过去几周通过对三个候选设计的舆情分析，组委会已做出决定，最终脱颖而出的并不是设计A和设计B，而是设计C。

"We have decided on the character design," tweets the Expo 2025 official Twitter account. "We will raise it as a character that people al