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Touhou 4-Panel Strips #1712 Playing Tanukopossum
The Revived Osa-tanuki
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• Sapporo
• Sendai
• Nagoya
• Osaka
• Fukuoka The original Japanese, tanuki ne'iri, is an idiom meaning "feigning sleep". A rough English idiom equivalent is "playing 'possum", but since Osa-Mamizou is visibly a tanuki, a straight idiomatic substitute couldn't work.