thumb|right|Kogepan, described by T: The New York Times Style Magazine as a character who "reads self-help books like How to Become a Delicious Bread to stave off despair"
thumb|right|Kogepan, described by T: The New York Times Style Magazine as a character who "reads self-help books like How to Become a Delicious Bread to stave off despair"
'''' is a depressed burnt anpan (red bean bread bun) character from the Japanese company San-X, who, like Sanrio creation Hello Kitty, can be found on stationery, accessories, and a number of other products. Kogepan was created by in the year 2000. A number of Kogepan books by Takahashi have been published in Japan. Adapted to a self-titled short anime series in 2001, animated by Studio Pierrot and produced by Pony Canyon. A Kogepan PlayStation game was released in Japan in 2002. Over two million plush Kogepan toys have been sold, and book sales reached over 1.3 million combined copies.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).