Unlike his Gen 1 counterpart Nyorochi, which tends to get nicknames such as "duck-snake" and
"duck-headed sperm", Kusachi seems to have a small-but-faithful fan-base of people who find
this strange little potted-plant Tam appealing.
When I got Kusachi, I was rather mystified by how he could keep moving around...
The Tamagotchi Daihyakka says that the kusatchi is "a tamagotchi who got so few meals that it has learned to get its nutrients through photosynthesis. It is very interested in fashionable clothing, but is having trouble with athlete's foot" (don't ask me what those two facts have to do with each other). Illustrations of the kusatchi show it sleeping (leaves wrapped around face), sunning itself (pink petals around face), dancing (this is a visual gag based on the "Dancing Flowers" popular in the 80's, which twitched around to radio music), and talking to its "friend", a flying potted bee (ie, bee whose feet end in a flower pot, just like the kusatchi).
Despite his fanbase, this little guy has some terrible PR. The kusatchi (kusa="grass/plant")
has been called the "Akuma-chi" ("devil"), the Unko-chi ("poop", because some people thought
that the stem and flower pot were a big piece of poop stuck to its bottom) and who knows what
else.
The US BANDAI site even went so far as to slander it,
accusing it of, essentially, being a "bad tam", a rebel without a cause.
Shannon Stoer, a dedicated Kusachi fan, writes:
From the info on your page about Kusatchi, I must be the only human alive that actually likes
(dare I say even "loves") the little rebel! Everytime I care for my tam2 I try (many times
without success) to get a Kusatchi. I suppose this is for two reasons, I find the idea of a
dancing plant with a animal head very comical AND I think it's way cute!
I'm going to go ahead and send you a scan of my Kusatchi bean doll and it's hang tag. I guess
thats about all I have to say about my personal fav. among the tam characters!
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