Japanese tv

I have found a whole new genre of tv to be horrified by – Japanese children’s tv. I usually have the news on for background noise in the mornings (and every once in a while they’ll do an interview with some dignitary in English). But today I got bored and started channel surfing. I found horrifying things!

Ok, first was a grown man running around in a bright yellow skin suit with pink accents. Given that he had a tall pointed hood on, he looked, well, like a condom. Sorry, there’s no other way to describe him. He jumped around the screen singing very loudly with his pink fuzzball companion for 15 minutes while I watched in horror. At one point he was fighting with a lady with blue hair dressed in a toga. I was IMing with the Redhead at the time, and he accused me of being on some really good drugs but he later found their website. He’s called “Stretch Man” – see for yourself: http://www.nhk.or.jp/sman/ja/frame.html

After Stretch Man came a very tan gentleman entirely dressed in a white Japanese robe. He had an afro that was parted on the side that made him look like he had horns (a la Wolverine). He was orating very sternly from a background of white dry ice clouds. Then he got louder and the clouds turned red. Then he got even more emotional and the music swelled and the clouds swirled and changed around him until he was solemnly talking from blue clouds. Then he calmed down and we were back to white.

After that was a nature show with close ups of just how grasshoppers actually fertilize and lay eggs.

Luckily I had to turn off the tv and go to work after that, so I didn’t get to see why R2D2 was talking about Cassiopeia and the Big Dipper.