An pan koala

Japanese bakeries do a very good job of making things look cute, beautiful or at least interesting.  This is an An Pan (a bun filled with sweet adzuki bean paste) with a stylized koala face on top.  What a koala has to do with an pan I am not sure but there was also a cat and a turtle.  This all seems like mixing culinary metaphors to me, but I understand that the taste is still good either way.  I cannot confirm this because it is my 2 year old daughter’s bun.  If I even take a taste, I will probably not live to regret it.