<p>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, binchōtan) is