Monchichi horrified me as a child. Why would any kid want to play with anything that ugly? I didn’t even want to be in the toystore aisle where those things lurked. And sucking it’s thumb! Fine young ladies never sucked their thumbs, if I were going to grow up and go to school, I wouldn’t want to suck my thumb so why was that monkey? child? what WAS that? sucking it’s thumb?
I just saw a souvenir shop in Asakusa, Tokyo, last week that hundreds of Monchichis dressed in Giants baseball uniforms. Don’t know if they were boy or girl monchichis, the shopkeepers called security before I could take their pants off.
That wouldn’t have helped you out much, Sublight. The only difference I remember was that the girls had a ponytail-like tuft of hair on top of their heads with a pink ribbon.