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The Mole Gigio is a character started in puppet theatre and then moved on to other media such as comics, film, anime or television where he was more popular. Created by Italian puppeteer Maria Perego in 1958, it depicts an anthropomorphic mouse that sings, tells tales, and has routines with people who converse with it. He is known all over the world by his original name (except in Japan where Toppo Jijoo is used) which in English can be translated as "Lucho mouse", because Gigio is a hypocoristic of Luigi (Luis). See topoyiyo , Petete , Narizota .