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INTEREST: Fans Get 'Fluffy Experience' at Transforming Bishōnen Cat Project's Event Display




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Chrno2



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 2:49 pm Reply with quote
Do you notice a trend about how much Japanese, for whatever reason love promoting 'Tom Cat' balls?

Hmm, this cat has "peanuts" that would make the bull of Wall Street green with envy. Now the question is if you rub these jewels will it give you good luck?

Let's just start manufacturing pillows. Y'know you want it. LOL!!
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Sheleigha



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 4:20 pm Reply with quote
Chrno2 wrote:
Do you notice a trend about how much Japanese, for whatever reason love promoting 'Tom Cat' balls?


Have you SEEN tanukis??
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Lemonchest



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 4:40 pm Reply with quote
Clever. They can't just have participants fondle the VAs balls & (adult) anime characters aren't allowed them, so they anthropomorphize them.
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Dop.L



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 5:37 pm Reply with quote
Sheleigha wrote:
Have you SEEN tanukis??


Indeed, let's not forget that heartwarming Studio Ghibli movie with tanuki using their scrotums as parachutes, or to cover truck windscreens and force a crash. Family entertainment!

But what happens when the bishie cats get 'seen to'? Doujinshi, I suppose.
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Ashen Phoenix



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 8:08 pm Reply with quote
Another top-notch example of "WHAT THE FLYING ****, JAPAN?!"

It even gives them a card. Laughing Jesus Christ. I love this. Someone had to make this. Someone has to maintenance this. Someone has to store this somewhere after the event. I'm crying, man.
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Weazul-chan



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 8:39 pm Reply with quote
Dop.L wrote:
Indeed, let's not forget that heartwarming Studio Ghibli movie with tanuki using their scrotums as parachutes, or to cover truck windscreens and force a crash. Family entertainment!
to be fair the historical reason for exaggerating the size of tanuki balls (which ARE proportionally larger than average for a critter their size to begin with) IIRC was basically "kids will find it funny."
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championferret



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 9:18 pm Reply with quote
Well, I did find a book here that was full of nothing but photos of cats balls!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTeZlAqlvLu/
The text proudly proclaims, ''The first cat-balls photo book!' and "Fluffy. Cute. A little embarassing."

I think its really sad that neutering is not common here though. Most other countries I know do it as much as possible, and have some form of mark on the cat so you can tell if it's neutered (usually a cut on the ear).
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 2:10 am Reply with quote
People like to talk about tanuki folklore as an aspect of "weird" Japan, although we have quite a few unusual Western equivalents ourselves. Ever see art of a satyr? Also, Google "Sheela na gig."

About cats, back in the 80s it was still pretty common (and amusing) to see cats and dogs "intact." Stray cats were seen as a positive because they killed all the rodents infesting farms and cities, which was the main reason for domestication. It wasn't until recent cases of idiots being bitten and contracting rabies, and claims that they screw up the ecosystem more by killing off all the bird populations, that strays became stigmatized overnight. You also had what started off as a joke from The Price is Right to spay and neuter pets, decreasing owner responsibility to watch them, and conspiracy for veterinarians to make a couple of bucks off an unnecessary, sometimes risky surgery.
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Chrno2



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:36 am Reply with quote
Sheleigha wrote:
Chrno2 wrote:
Do you notice a trend about how much Japanese, for whatever reason love promoting 'Tom Cat' balls?


Have you SEEN tanukis??


Oh yeah, I forgot about that. But tanuki's don't get as much love as cats do.
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