watashi to tokyo: How serious our Poop Obsession is

I wrote before that Japanese people have a poop obsession. We love anthropomorphizing poop into a kind of character mascot. Actually, in the Kansai area (where people always love to laugh), there was a poop animation called "Unko-san" (“Miss Poop,” unko means poop in Japanese). I have never seen it and I wouldn’t see it, but I read an article that said Korean people are mad about this cartoon. In the cartoon, there are some characters: dad, mom, an American character named Benson who can run very fast, an English character named Big Ben and a Korean character named Kim Ben who has a bad temper and loves to eat Kimchi (ben also means poop in Japanese). The characterization is meant to be funny, but Korean people don't like it and are protesting to stop airing the animation.

I wrote before on how "we dream about manga meat!" Like the wiki page says, originally a manga meat meant mammoth meat. Recently, Japanese snack maker Tohato released a mammoth meat snack. It's a fried snack that comes in BBQ sauce flavor or Siberian salt flavor. Personally, I wouldn’t eat them, but this is a great example of how much we love manga meat.

Also in snack news, I was hooked on this news: Nestle Japan will release a vegetable juice Kit Kat on August24th. Hmm… I prefer to enjoy vegetable juice and chocolate on their own, not together.