Believe it or not, some cute mascots have more oozing sex appeal compared to popular actors. Well, at least in Japan. According to an interesting news article, there is a poll saying that a baseball mascot named Doala the Koala is the hottest male among the 20-something Japanese women.

Though this sounds really weird, it seems these women can’t resist the cuteness of this blue koala mascot. Doala is the official mascot of the Nagoya-based Chunichi Dragons Central League baseball. Designed just like most anime characters, Doala has thick eyebrows, childish smile, adorable eyes and wears Chunichi Dragons baseball uniform.

To make things really odd, why would a baseball team named Dragon use a koala bear as its official mascot? Well, it turned out there’s a deep relationship between Nagoya city and Australia way back in 1984 when the first batch of koalas arrived at Nagoya’s Higashiyama Zoo.

14 years after its creation, Doala is more popular than ever. His nationwide appeal to young Japanese women lead to the publication of “Doara no Himitsu” (Doala’s Secrets), a book about Doala’s opinion about love, society and money. Surprisingly, it has sold 120,000 copies in just 2 weeks! Now, that’s mascot power!

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