Terms of use

• Start here: a brief guide

  Key points at a glance. Please read the full terms below for details.

  • Basic rules:

    • Illustrations from Choconasu — Cute and playful illustrations are generally free for commercial and noncommercial use, whether you are an individual or an organization.

  • The five-illustration rule (important!):

    • Flyers and web pages: up to five illustrations per page are free.
    • Videos (including YouTube): up to five illustrations per video are free.
    • Social media posts: up to five illustrations per post are free.
    • Reusing the same illustration within the same page, video, or post counts as one illustration. For multiple pages or posts, count each separately.

  • E-books and books:

    • E-books are treated the same as printed books. For use in a book, please contact us in advance.

  • Booklets (bound multipage materials such as corporate brochures, newsletters, and pamphlets):

    • Up to five illustrations are free for the entire booklet, not each page.

  • Use by educational institutions:

    • Educational use and free distribution at kindergartens, nursery schools, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, universities, and other schools are generally permitted.
    • However, use for sale or profit (such as paid teaching materials or publications) requires prior consultation.

  • Credit:

    • Credit is generally not required, but we'd appreciate a credit such as “Illustration: Choconasu” in your work.

  • Prohibited uses (highlights):

    • Redistributing, compiling, or selling the assets themselves, using them as generative AI training data, and unauthorized scraping are prohibited.

  For questions or paid licensing, contact choconasu.info@gmail.com.

  Last updated: June 3, 2026

• Article 1: Scope

  These terms of use govern the use of Choconasu — Cute and playful illustrations (the “Service”). By using the Service, users are deemed to agree to these terms.

• Article 2: Definitions

  1. The “Service” is the website operated by Choconasu where users can view and download illustrations and images.
  2. “Content” means digital assets such as illustrations and images provided on the Service.
  3. “Same Content” means illustrations or images that are visually identical or substantially identical. This includes assets whose appearance is largely unchanged by resizing, cropping, color adjustment, or changes to resolution or file format.
  4. “Commercial use” means use for profit, including sales, advertising or promotion, monetized content, paid events or teaching materials, and paid social media promotions. Personal hobbies and posts not intended to generate revenue are generally noncommercial. Please contact us in advance if unsure.

  5. The unit of publication and number of illustrations used are counted as follows.

     • Flyers and brochures: each page is one unit. Repeated use of the same Content on one page counts as one illustration (for example, using the same asset in multiple places in a spread counts as one).
     • Web pages: each page is one unit. Repeated use of the same Content on one page counts as one illustration.
     • Videos: each video is one unit. Repeated use of the same Content in one video counts as one illustration.
     • Social media posts: each post is one unit. Separate stories and posts are counted individually.
     • Booklets (bound multipage materials such as corporate brochures, newsletters, and pamphlets): the entire booklet is one unit, with up to five illustrations per booklet as the free-use guideline (counted per booklet, not per page).

• Article 3: Using the Content

  1. Users may use the Content free of charge for personal or organizational purposes, whether commercial or noncommercial.
  2. However, for commercial use, using more than five illustrations requires a paid license for the sixth and subsequent illustrations. Please contact choconasu.info@gmail.com.

  3. The five-illustration threshold is determined by the publication units in Article 2(5). Examples follow.

     • Flyers and web pages: up to five illustrations per page (repeated use of the same Content on the same page counts as one illustration)
     • Videos: up to five illustrations per video
     • Social media: up to five illustrations per post
  4. E-books are treated the same as printed books. Please consult us in advance for use in books or e-books. Conditions may vary depending on whether the publication is sold and how it is distributed.
  5. For booklets (bound multipage materials such as corporate brochures, newsletters, and pamphlets), up to five illustrations per booklet is the free-use limit.
  6. School use: The Content may generally be used free of charge in teaching materials and handouts (including bookmarks and booklets) at educational institutions, including kindergartens, nursery schools, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, and universities. Please consult us in advance if the resulting materials will be sold or distributed for profit.
  7. Paid social media promotions (advertising) and paid or monetized posts constitute commercial use. The applicable illustration limits must be observed.
  8. Credit is generally not required, but we'd appreciate a credit such as “Illustration: Choconasu” in your posts or other work.

• Article 4: Copyright

  1. Copyright in all Content on the Service, whether edited or modified, belongs to Choconasu.
  2. Users must use Content obtained through the Service in accordance with copyright law and other applicable laws.

• Article 5: Prohibited actions

  Users must not do any of the following when using the Service:

  1. Redistribute or sell the Content itself, including distributing or selling asset files as-is, or reselling them as LINE stickers, NFT art, design templates, or asset collections.

  2. Modify substantial parts of the Content for redistribution or sale, such as making merchandise that consists substantially of the original asset.

     Ordinary editing for design purposes, such as resizing, cropping, color adjustment, and compositing, is permitted.

     However, converting assets into a redistributable form, such as an asset collection, is prohibited.

  3. Link directly to the Content, including unauthorized hotlinking to site resources.
  4. Use the Content in client work that transfers copyright in the assets themselves to the client.
  5. Violate laws or public order and morals, use the Content for antisocial purposes, infringe third-party rights, or use it for discrimination or defamation.
  6. Use the Content without permission in datasets for machine learning, including generative AI.
  7. Use automated acquisition tools such as scrapers or crawlers.
  8. Interfere with operation of the Service or engage in other conduct the Service considers inappropriate.

• Article 6: Advertising and affiliate programs

  1. The Service may earn revenue through affiliate programs and other advertisements.
  2. Advertisers are responsible for advertisements on the Service. The Service accepts no responsibility for their content.
  3. The Service also accepts no responsibility for damages users incur in connection with advertisements.

• Article 7: Disclaimer

  1. The Service accepts no responsibility for users’ use of the illustrations. Users are responsible for checking and addressing legal issues relating to their use of the Content, including portrait rights, trademarks, and infringement of third-party rights.
  2. The Service may change or remove previously distributed Content without notice.
  3. The Service may interrupt, suspend, or terminate provision of the service without notice. The Service accepts no responsibility for damages this causes users.

• Article 8: Changes to these terms

  These terms may change without notice. Revised terms take effect when posted on the Service.

• Article 9: Governing law and jurisdiction

  These terms are governed by Japanese law. The Sapporo District Court has exclusive agreed jurisdiction over disputes relating to the Service.

• Contact: paid licensing and other requests

  For paid licensing or commercial-use inquiries, please provide the information below and contact choconasu.info@gmail.com.

  • User type: individual or organization
  • Purpose, such as a flyer, web page, YouTube video, or book
  • Publication units and number of illustrations, such as one web page using assets A and B, two illustrations in total
  • Planned distribution: Japan only or international, whether it will be sold, and similar details
  • Other details, such as production company, delivery format, or planned publication date