Bincho-tan(びんちょうタンBinchōtan) (also Binchō-tan) is a mascot character, created by mangaka Takahito Ekusa(江草天仁Ekusa Takahito) and produced by game goods company Alchemist. The name is a play on words: binchōtan(備長炭) is a kind of charcoal, which is mainly used for cooking. However, -tan is a suffix created by the mispronunciation of -chan. Relating to this dajare, the main cast is the moe anthropomorphic representations of different types of charcoal.