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Mameshiba (豆しば) is a series of Japanese animation shorts and images featuring characters resembling a variety of beans, candies and nuts with dog ears and an animal-like faces. Each cartoon or comic begins with someone about to eat some of the beans, when one bean suddenly wakes up and introduces itself before providing a piece of random trivia that ruins the person’s appetite.

The name mameshiba (豆しば) is an intentional pun in Japanese, blending mame (豆) or “bean”, with the phrase mame shiba (豆柴), which refers to a toy or puppy Shiba Inu. Additionally, the phrase, mameshiba sounds similar to the word for “trivia,” mamechishiki (豆知識), which translates literally to “beans of knowledge.”