Meet Someity, The Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympic Mascot

Someity is a cool character with cherry blossom tactile sensors and superpowers. It can send and receive messages telepathically using the cherry blossom antennae on both sides of its face and it is able to fly using its traditional Japanese checkered ichimatsu-pattern cloak. It is usually quiet, but it can exhibit great power when necessary. Someity loves nature. It can talk to stones and wind by using its superpower and is also able to move things by just looking at them. Someity lives in the digital world and can move freely between there and the real world via the internet.

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ⒸTokyo 2020

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic mascot's name is Someity, (pronounced soh-may-tee) which comes from someiyoshino, a popular cherry blossom variety, and echoes the English phrase “so mighty”. Its bright pink color scheme draws inspiration from cherry blossoms, which are often associated with Japan and a deeply rooted part of Japanese culture. Someity exhibits enormous mental and physical strength and represents Paralympic athletes who overcome obstacles and redefine the boundaries of what is possible. 

Someity: Chosen by the Youth of Japan

The Paralympic mascot Someity and its Olympic counterpart Miraitowa were designed by the professional character designer and illustrator Ryo Taniguchi and submitted for the Tokyo 2020 mascot competition. The committee received 2,042 submissions and shortlisted three mascot pairs for a public vote. Between December 2017 and February 2018, more than 75 per cent of the elementary schools in Japan and a number of overseas Japanese schools took part in a selection process and voted for their favourite set of mascot designs, with Someity and Miraitowa announced as the winners on 22 July 2018. Taniguchi’s design won by a landslide, receiving more than half of the votes cast by the students. 109,041 classes out of 205,755 that took part in the voting process chose the mascot pair Taniguchi created.