Strange and Weird (and Cool) Things from Japan
Okay, that headline was a bit inside, but I am sure my good buddy G. will appreciate the craziness of this one.
I sure hope this isn’t meant to be serious. The original was annoying enough, but had a certain unique style. This is… atrocious. If at least they had used the Choco Party girl as the lead singer…!
news.com.au reports that a Japanese man started a petition to enable him to get married to a Mangacharacter:
Taichi Takashita launched an online petition aiming for one million signatures to present to the government to establish a law on marriages with cartoon characters. Within a week he has gathered more than 1000 signatures through. “I am no longer interested in three dimensions. I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world,” he wrote. “However, that seems impossible with present-day technology. Therefore, at the very least, would it be possible to legally authorise marriage with a two-dimensional character?”
Reportedly, while it is not sure whether Takashita was serious, some of the people who signed the petition are.
Twenty servings of oozy goodness in one convenient plastic bucket. And when you are done with it, the bucket can serve another important function…
While we are on the subject of contact lenses, behold this attrocity:
Did you see it? It’s easy to miss at first glance. Here’s the closeup:
Yes, that’s right: It’s the Hello Kitty Contact Lens. I honestly do not know which I find dumber, the “eye enlargement” contact lenses or these; I guess I’ll have to wait for the day that someone combines the two.
(Via Kitty Hell.)
Japanese are obsessed with “cuteness”. Part of that seems to be that the bigger a girl’s eyes, the better. Characters in anime usually have really huge eyes. Anyway, since surgery can only do so much for a woman’s eyes, there are now these contact lenses which give the impression of bigger eyes…
Sounds scary? It certainly looks weird…
Japanese beauty ideals nonewithstanding, I think these lenses catapult a woman right into the uncanny valley.
If this doesn’t scare you, you can buy these things at this exceedingly professional web-shop here. I feel compelled to add that I am not affiliated with that website, nor do I know how reliable they are.
(Via InventorSpot.)
The BBC reports that a US$100000-worth diamond-studded platinum statuette of Hello Kitty has been sold to a local Osaka purchaser.
And now for something completely different: A well-deserved break from all those cute commercials, and a return to Japanese sex toys. It’s the “Heaven” pink blow-job simulation machine:
Seriously. I couldn’t make this kind of thing up if I wanted to. Read the Gizmodo story for a few more details…
(Via Gizmodo.)
Here are three more weird Japanese commercials.
Pokemon Bread:
Now, Pokemon has been a global hit, proving that not only the Japanese are weird. However I think Pokemon bread would not sell here… and the voice at the very end is a classic, too.
More Pretz:
The pretz girl is always nice. Ironically, the two guys have way bigger tits than the chick… and I do find the commercial weird enough for inclusion here, even if it’s not as cool as some of the other Pretz videos.
Lemon soda:
Uhm…. right. One wonders whether to have sympathy for that lemon, or envy it. I am sure G. is in the later camp.