It is not uncommon for Japanese school children to carry a "bouhan buzzer", or a personal safety and security buzzer among their school supplies. The miniature buzzer plays an audible distress signal (when a pin is removed from the buzzer) for any moment the child may become lost or feel unsafe. They're often decorated with cute mascots and characters (children sometimes play with them rather than use them for their intended purpose), but for the most part they work as a nondescript accessory to attach to a school bag.

Small Japanese creative planning and design collection Niji (@niji_2oclock) has recently developed a security buzzer that has far more than school children clamoring for it, however.

Niji flexed their creative plushie making skills to design a security buzzer in the form of an adorable Mandrake, a nightshade family plant with a humanoid root body that has been said to shriek when pulled from the ground!

Appearing often in fantasy and mythology, Mandrakes have a mysterious and somewhat intimating nature related to folk medicine, and even appearing as an enemy in the Final Fantasy series. (in The Bible, their shriek is said to be deadly).

Niji's Mandrake buzzer is anything but, however, and instead wears an adorable panicked expression on its face when you pull it up from its pot container. Even its arms pop up in an cute motion!

The personal safety Mandrake is designed to be fitted with a standard security buzzer in its back pocket.

Many responded with praise for the design, particularly for its cute design that can double as a plushie and a security item, hoping to buy them in bunches.

According to Niji, the design unveiled on Twitter is a prototype, and had no idea it would be so popular. As a result, the planning and design group is working on commercializing the product, and will inform fans on Twitter as the plans shape up.