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For some reason, the Japanese have a thing about poo. Called unchi, you’ll find the Mr-Whippy-Icecream shape on all sorts of things, in an attractive brown and occassionally with little wafty lines drawn above it.

My onee-chan will alway giggle girlishly when she sees some whipped cream or something shaped like unchi. The connotations with poop just aren’t as prevalent here so there’s been at least three occassions in the last two months where she started laughing hard and took photos to put on her mixi to show her friends back home the unchi us strange Australians eat.

But then, today on Lisa Katayama’s blog, I saw a photo which took me back to my eikaiwa teaching days in Yokohama. A student had been living in Osaka for a while and came home to visit, bearing gifts. For us teachers, he presented a box full of Unchi-kun Gumi, which probably translates best into “Mr. Gummy Poop” - a gummy cola-flavoured lolly.

Aha! Australians weren’t the weird ones eating unchi-shape things! The Japanese were the weird ones eating unchi-shaped things! Advertised unchi-shaped things!The box of candy was probably finished by the staff in less than a week. There were plenty of gags and attempts to gross out the Japanese staff with practical jokes. The lollies themselves were fairly edible. Kinda more-ish. It was a challenge to try and peel them out in one piece though. Generally you had to mangle the plastic mould with your teeth to get a mouthful. Well…half a mouthful.After the box was emptied, there was a huge amount of discarded packaging. What a waste. Reminded me of this clip from Futurama:

And on a side note: I love the Internet. Doing a search for unchi turned up this completely useless factoid: there’s a children’s book called Minna Unchi, or, Everyone Poops. Good grief. I’m not sure that I believe that the author’s name was really Taro Gomi. It’s kinda like saying his name was “John Poopies”. Only in Japan.

UPDATE: I’ve been told by my nee-san that Taro Gomi is a perfectly feasible name to have. Just a rather unfortunate one.

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Kotaku compared the E3 trailer for the new episodic Sam and Max game from Telltale Games with the dropped game due from LucasArts. They commented that the LucasArts trailer looked better, and I have to agree. It was funnier, the voices sounded better, and the Telltale version looked like a half-hour mock-up job.

I will be buying the Sam and Max game anyway, but geez I hope it’s better than what this trailer leads me to believe. Watching the LucasArts trailer and thinking that they cancelled such a fantastic project makes me sad in the pants.

The trailer for the new Telltale game:

…vs. the old LucasArts trailer…

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