The man, who goes by Toco on YouTube, has become well-known because of the custom suit, which is said to have taken 40 days to build.

The attention of the internet is being drawn to a border collie costume that a Japanese guy purchased for about $14,000.

The custom outfit, which cost two million yen and took 40 days to build, according to the website of its maker Zeppet, has made the man, known online as Toco, extremely popular.

Toco claimed to have always “had a vague dream of becoming an animal” since childhood in a YouTube video posted in June 2022. This is how it turned out when I realized that dream, he subsequently said.

Toco told the Japanese news outlet Mynavi that dogs “would be [a] good” match for him “considering that it would be a realistic model,” according to the Indian news station New Delhi Television. Toco also stated that “quadrupedal animals” are his preferences.

He told the newspaper, “I made it a collie because it appears real when I put it on.

On July 21, Toco posted a now-viral video to his YouTube profile in which he can be seen acting in a variety of dog-like and human-like ways while wearing his new collie outfit, including playing catch and rolling over.

According to the New York Post, Toco admitted to being “nervous” and “scared” before wearing the outfit in public for the first time.

On the “I want to be an animal” YouTube channel, nearly 40,000 people keep up with Toco’s exploits.

The costume’s remarkably lifelike appearance has surprised some users, while others have described it as “disturbing” and “bizarre.”

One commenter even implied that Toco’s costume was “some weird sex thing,” which left the YouTuber “sad,” the Post reports. But he is continuing to do what he loves in spite of it.

Toco replied, “This is my hobby, so I will continue,” according to the newspaper. “It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy, too.”

Toco claimed that at first, he had only revealed his pastime to those “who are really close” to him. According to his June 2022 video, he expressed concern that if he told others, “they would look at me funny.”

I don’t often discuss it with other people since I have a slight inferiority complex about it, he continued.