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Drinking is a time for cute company in Japan.

Japanese gacha capsule toy vending machines come filled with such a large number of cute and unusual toys and accessories it can often be hard to decide which ones to put your hard-earned coins into. This summer, capsule toy producer Kitan Club is making the decision easy with a collection of tiny hedgehogs designed to sit in playful positions around the rim of your drinking glass. Let’s just hope they don’t fall in!

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There are seven different hedgehog characters to collect, including two of the popular “Salt and Pepper” variety, which are known for their brown-and-white speckled spikes.

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▼ Joining them are two pretty albino hedgehogs, with white quills and bright red eyes.

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▼ Then there’s the adorable cinnicot variety, so-called because of their cinnamon-and-apricot colouring.

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And rounding off the series are two inquisitive cinnamon hedgehogs, with one eagerly making its way down for a delicious sip, and the other making its way out of the pool.

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While the adorable four-legged characters are designed to be used with glass drinkware, they can also be used to bring a dash of cute to laptops and computer screens. On sale from 10 June at capsule toy vending machines around the country, the hedgehogs retail for 300 yen (about US$2.78) each.

Source, Images: Kitan Club