10 weird things that only exist in Japan
Nobody makes strange toys like Japan is making strange toys presidential action figures to toilet training tigers, we found the strangest Japanese toys and the most bizarre ever.
Japan certainly has a reputation for strange and interesting handheld games but we've never seen anything quite like the Tuttuki Bako Finger game Each stage features something you interact with pushing the Stick your finger into the box and a digital representation on the screen mimic your motions of what we can tell the different stages of the game include terrorizing a small stick man, poking a girl in the face and flicking a tiny panda.
If you can buy football dog robot, why not a skittish robotic cockroach Hex Bug emulates a roach with antennas or sensors that indicate when to change direction when it hits a wall, they also react to loud sounds by rushing away in fear we can only imagine that they also scatter when you turn on the light to try to make bugs seem cute, the Hex bugs are available in blue, pink, green, yellow and orange.
Kids love the small keychain cute little animals, but we think anatomically correct diagrams of animals may cross a line Animals Gotochi Dissection view a diagram of the muscles and organs inside of a variety of animals, including fish, pigs, cows and even a panda All parts are labeled, in Japanese of course, we assume that they could be used as tiny cheat sheets in Japanese biology classes, but we can t understand all other reasons for wanting one.
Like the feeling we get to skip the bubble wrap, it is something satisfying popping edamame in their pods instead of playing with your food, Japanese toymaker Bandai has developed a toy that provides tactile pleasure without end, without losing a single soybean 3 soybeans in a pod, in the middle of a face contains a surprise if you play with toys beans is not enough excitement, you can try to collect 12 characters or edamame fairy illusory.
Because literally everything in Japan is actually a robot This strange all knowing Japanese toy debuted in the 80s and has answered your questions in a style magic 8-ball robot God, Jesus knows what designers this toy have thought when they did.
We do not know what kind of crazy new Japanese technology age is involved in Lokuloku a squishable pig toy, but we are absolutely mesmerized by this thing, no matter what you do with this toy, it always bounces back and retains its shape even after being completely flattened and turned into a puddle of golden goo.
Sort of an evolution of the virtual pet on a screen, the Roboco is a pet with a screen for a face Although we would never have guessed that after the Tamagotchi craze that Japan could create a pocket pet that is even more annoying Roboco mimics your emotions, so when you yell at her in frustration, he yells back and throws a tantrum course, there are other emotions, but we just do not see not we do anything but scream at him.
If you have a few thousand yen 208 and a heavy case of narcissism then you might consider getting these doppelganger figurines Grand Chariot Of course it's pretty cool you capture forever in a plastic figure, but again it is also kind of creepy as shown by the models here.
Texting may be out of control in the US, but at least we didn emoticon toys These little strange characters display Japanese emoticons known kaomiji You do not have to know Japanese to understand the expressions on their little dolls creeping in fact American otaku probably already recognize most of them and even use them on a daily basis.
Kankichi Ryotsu stars in his own comic in Japan and despite his friendly appearance, he is actually a lazy pervert who is himself still in unsavory situations Predictably accessories that come with the figure Ryotsu include things like handcuffs and a gun, but he also has his own pet Tamagotchi because it would no policeman adult.
Inspired by the sentence fish out of water Yoskay Japanese designer Yamamoto created this strange toy pop art The head of the toy looks like a koi or goldfish, but he has a body much more human well be technical, it has a fish body too, we're actually not really what to make of that number, but we know we're a little creeped out by it.
We know it seems strange to include an action figure President Obama in a Japanese toy list, but believe it or not all this American figure is made in Japan Barack Obama has apparently inspired a bit of a cult Japan is not really a surprise tribute would push toy figure includes an American flag, a stool, several links and a mic stand katanas and lightsabers not included we think.
Maybe he is us may be the way we approach potty training in the US is a bit conservative, but then Japan seems to have the most bizarre approach we might imagine, with animated shit and talking toilets Shimajiro videos feature an animated tiger struggling with potty training and animation personified waste accompanying toy attaches to the toilet paper roll holder and encouraging phrases cries for That you are going.
Of all the strange Japanese toys, this one may take the cake We must be careful not to type the letter H too often in this post because H-Bouya call us perverts You see, in Japan, H or ecchi stands for hentai that porn is the word in Japanese the innocent little boy flashes every time you type that letter forbidden because it implies that your intentions are less pure Oh oh, how was that.
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