Category: Anime

Learn how to pee and poo with Shimajiro

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date December 13, 2007
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Shimajiro is an anime character who is featured in many educative DVDs/merchandising/products for kids. My friend Sato explained me how having Shimajiro’s DVD complete collection helped him a lot to teach his two kids “lots of stuff”. It looks like Shimajiro is a great educator. One of the things you can learn with Shimajiro is how to go to the toilet. In this video you can see the episode where Shimajiro learns how to pee and poo.

At the end of the video an interesting device with two buttons and a Shimajiro face is featured, one of the buttons is used for peeing and the other one for pooping. I didn’t find this device on the net, but I found the “chair”, you can buy it here.

Anime Manga

Akira Toriyama interview

Akira Toriyama wrote Dr.Slump and Dragon Ball. He is one of the most famous mangakas ever. He has millions of fans, but he is very reluctant to media, in fact his most recent “official” picture is from 10 years ago. No new pictures of him appear on newspapers or magazines, and he is rarely interviewed.

Last week on Youtube appeared a video where Toriyama is interviewed on a famous Japanese TV show 25 years ago; it was the most viewed video in Japan last week. If you watch the video you will see a young Akira Toriyama, it was before he started Dragon Ball just after he got married and he didn’t have children yet. It feels like he is a “typical”/”normal” Japanese and seems very shy/innocent.

During the interview they talk about how difficult is to start writing and making money from manga, they also talk about his recent marriage (You can see her wife during some seconds).
During the second part they talk about Dr.Slump, how he thought about a robot using glasses etc. Third part is interesting because you can listen Toriyama talking about how amazing and big Tokyo is. Toriyama is from Nagoya country side, it seems he is not used to big sizes.

Anime Otaku

Gundam – ガンダム

Gundam is one of the longest series of Japanese anime, it started in 1979 with “Mobile Suit Gundam” and it is still running with “Mobile Suit Gundam SEED”. The fantastic world of Gundam is huge, I’m not a Gundam fan but I can see series, films, OVAs, video games and figures every time I go shopping around Tokyo. Figures are one of the most popular articles. If you are a big Gundam fan, Tokyo is for sure your paradise, but if you can’t come to Tokyo in the near future you should check this.

Here are some pictures I took this weekend, I found all this Gundam stuff by chance, it’s everywhere!:

Next to a big Gundam robot. It’s costs around 2.500 Euros.