Kantan

Kantan announcement

Kantan is Basa City's winter holiday. The event took place in the Basa City Post Office where Nana works when they and Tyjiro became snowed in during a blizzard. Introduced were the spirits Posomo, Snochi, Kantan Trees, and an unnamed cold bug spirit that causes winter every year in Basa City. The wood burning beetles from the Tyji-Road event made a return appearance in the cozy little wood stove. Channel point redeems specific to the event were one that made a Posomo gently fly past in the foreground, one that made the blizzard temporarily knock out the power, and one labled random that usually made the blizzard temporarily knock out the power as numerous of Posomo flew around further back in the Post Office. Ripe fruit on the Kantan tree would sometimes drop off and new ones would grow.

## Letters & Packages

> **Tyjiro:** How illegal…is it-
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> **Nana:** I don’t like where-I don’t like where this is going!  Just from the get go!
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> **Tyjiro:** How illegal is it to look at other people’s mail? Or packages?
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> **Nana:** Like very illegal. Very.
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> **Tyjiro:** Okay.  That being said…how easy is it for people to *catch* you doing it?  Like really though?
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> **Nana:** I mean…if we seal it properly…
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Bored while stuck inside the post office for hours during the blizzard, Tyjiro and Nana began curiously opening peoples' mail.

### A child's booklet project on the story of Monk Suuntha

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> 1. The story of Monk Suuntha!! By Gangan Jiro Jr. :)
> 2. Monk Suuntha was different from the other monks.
> 3. He liked toys and stuff to keep. The monks thought that was bad.
> 4. So he left with his Rhuntan best friend.
> 5. Then he began to make toys for all the kids in town! Yaay!!!!
> 6. Snochi saw how nice Suuntha was and wanted to help him.
> 7. He taught them how to make toys and they ate cookies. They can make anything!
> 8. Every Kantan, Suuntha flies on his Rhuntan and drops Snochi down. It looks like snow!
> 9. We leave cookies out for the Snochi so they can make toys while we sleep.
> 10. Now kids wake up so happy on Kantan Day! Thank you Monk Suuntha!!
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The Story of Monk Suuntha by Gangan Jiro Jrpages 1 and 2pages 3 and 4pages 5 and 6pages 7 and 8pages 9 and 10
### A Monk Suuntha costume

> **Tyjiro:** *HA HA HA HA!*  Naw, you look *GREAT!*  Wait why do you make it-why do make it work so well though?
> **Nana:** Thanks!  I love that your first reaction was to laugh.  That makes me feel very validated and nice.
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Monk Suuntha costumeNana in Monk Suuntha costume, minus beardNana in Monk Suuntha costumeNana sitting in Monk Suuntha costume
### A box of Kantan fruit cookies

Tyjiro and Nana scarfed these down.
a box of fancy Kantan fruit cookiesa delicious Kantan fruit cookie
### A special-format stereoscope/View-Master with a reel about the winter bugs

This item is a special collab between PoiYo! and Central Basa's Otak Utak University

a special format stereoscopea special format stereoscopeCentral Basa's Otak Utak University x PoiYo!cold bug spiritcold bug spirits love cinnamoncold bug spirits sleep perched on trees for most of the yearwhen the cold bug spirits sleep, the snow melts and summer returns
### A letter to Monk Suntha by the very unlucky Junjin Gourami

Cisco's video of this segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBJ4eOQ3KeA
> Dear Monk Suuntha,
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> I’m always grateful for this time of year.  It really is a time to reflect and appreciate everything you may have taken for granted while you were going through life.  Now, in retrospect, you get to see it all laid out.  I hope your year, while people around the world were waiting for you to come back again, has been treating you well.  I guess I haven’t really thought about what you do when Kantan season is over.
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> To be honest, this year has been pretty rough.  I broke my leg falling off of the very last step of a staircase, I lost my job because of, in their words, my “incredible lack of awareness and an inability to comprehend simple instructions,” my husband decided to leave me, my son disowned me.  The only person who was willing to stay by my side was my father who I finally repaired my relationship with.  I was so glad to fulfill that gap in my life that I’d been missing.  Anyway, a giant spirit swooped down from the sky and carried him away to who knows where.  I grieved for months.  He came back though!  He wandered back into the city all raggedy and unkempt.  I was so relieved.  We got him cleaned up, a fresh haircut, and took him to get a nice warm meal.  then he got hit by a truck and died.  So yeah.  Not my best year to be perfectly honest.  They started selling my favorite cookies again for a short time, they’ll be discontinues soon, but I ordered a box and they should be coming soon!  Those’ll be the highlight of my year.
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> Anyway, I know you’re probably not real, but you’re really the only person I have.  I thought it’d be a good idea to let my thoughts out to someone I know I wouldn’t have to worry about judging me or anything.  If someone was actually reading this I don’t think I could recover from the embarrassment it would give me hahaha I would probably never show my face again.  Thanks for letting me write to you.  Haven’t done this since I was a kid, and I know I’m supposed to ask for something, but this was more than enough for me.  Thanks again Monk Suuntha!
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> Junjin Gourami
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> (the woman who lives on Op Op and Lao Xao)
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> (i work on lao xao ave at the gift shop)
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> (the gift shop that’s right near the staircase to the entrance of the underground market you can’t miss it)
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> p.s. I’m so glad I have a private way of letting out my thoughts while also feeling like it’s really going somewhere.  I can’t stress enough how important privacy is to me.  See you next year Monk Suuntha!
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## Kantan Trees

Kantan trees are actually a kind of spirit.  They’re hard to take care of in the off-season, so aside from the farmers who cultivate them, most people order one just for the Kantan season.  Plant the seed in a pot indoors and they quickly grow into a full, evergreen-like tree that will put forth delicious, gently luminous fruit that start maturing around Kantan day.  After the holiday season, the trees shrivel up and return to their dormant seed state, and people return the seeds to the farmers.

the Post Office Kantan treeGangan Jiro Jr's drawing on a Kantan tree
## Gallery

Kantan Holiday Special title pageTyjiro and Nana in the post officeTyjiro and Nana in the post office as the blizzard temporarily knocks out the lightsTyjiro in the post officePosomos flying around as the storm ragesa Posomo flying pasta sleepy Posomowood burning beetles in the wood stovean unopened mail packagea Rhuntan decorationTyjiro's Lion and Nana's Momo sleeping through the storm