Awatama blows onto Japanese shelves at long last

I was browsing through some Japanese DS releases this morning and saw a peculiar game named Awatama. Turns out it’s the translated title of one of my favorite DS games, Soul Bubbles, now renamed and chibi-fied for Japan. I wasn’t too crazy about the look of the English version’s main character but I’m surprisingly at odds with the change. Sure, he looked like a balding nymph elf with a big face but now he (she?) just looks like any other ol’ manga/anime character.