HI there, I'm Amy from Cakes with Faces
Welcome back to my series
About cute, funny & strange gachapon from Japan
Now gachapon are the capsule toys you get from the little vending machines
There's just so many series
And so many bizarre ones
That I have to show you
In Akihabara there's even a shop
With nothing but gachapon machines
It's quite small
But it's still got a lot of gachapon
If you want to find it
It's on the main street
With a pink sign
There's another one in the backstreets
With a yellow sign
You can find that one on Google Maps
If you search for Akihabara Gachapon Hall
And there's one in Nakano Broadway as well
Which is a great place to go if you like anime
Or figures, or collectables in general
Coming up on my channel
There's a new Gachapon Challenge
Where we went around Akihabara
To try and find the cutest and the strangest gachapon
I'll put a link in the description to the previous one
And there's a new one coming up
There'll be a competition
So you can win the gachapon we found
There's new Japan travel videos on my channel
Every Thursday
If you want to subscribe
So let's get started!
On to the gachapon
In my previous gachapon videos
We've had the Nyanko series of miniature kitchen items
Where everything is cat-shaped
It's very cute
Now this is the dog-themed version
It's called "wan-ko"
Because "wan wan" is the noise a dog makes in Japan
*dog barking*
Everything is shiba inu themed
Even the grater
The chopping board
Look at the dog-head-shaped rice balls and sushi roll
And if you like shiba inu
In this series they've got their heads stuck in things!
The best one's got to be the guitar.
That's actually the second series of dogs with their heads stuck in things
The first series has some fantastic ones too
Traditional Japanese paper screens and pets
Can't mix well
So I'm sure this has actually happened a lot
Maybe not this one though!
So cute!
And Shiba Inu Mona Lisa!
If you think that's strange
How about this one?
Bottle cap cats
They're cats that have got their heads stuck in plastic bottle lids
It says you can use them as a stand for your plastic bottle lids
Because that's a thing you need...
I know whenever I'm drinking a bottle of water
I never know what to do with the lid
The next one is quite artistic and cultural
Animals crossed with the famous painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch
Of course, my favourite is the hamster
Because I love hamsters
There's even an otter in the sea!
Some gachapon are actually quite advanced
This one is a pocket game
Now I can't tell what sort of game it is
Or if you can actually play it
But it looks like you might be able to
I think it might be some sort of mini Tetris
And this other one looks like you can definitely play it
I can't believe these are only 300 yen
In the 80s, these probably would have been
The height of portable games console technology
And now they're less than £2.50 in a gachapon
Now cute animals are sometimes just little fluffballs
These cats are literally round fluffballs
But made of plastic
They look like some sort of pufferfish / cat crossover
Next: rugby-playing squirrels
Maybe to commemorate the Rugby World Cup?
I wonder what sports-playing animals
We're going to get for the Olympics
Tentacles - that you can wrap around things.
I don't know why they've used a teddy bear as an example
Obviously, that's a typical item you'd wrap tentacles around
I think the name of this series is Tentacle Paradise
They come in a variety of colours
And they're glittery!
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Now back to the gachapon
This next series
Is quite obscure
At first it looks like equipment to mould a gun
What kind of gachapon is this?!
Luckily, I found an article that explains everything
It's actually a gachapon about the process of making a gachapon
So you've got moulding
Painting
Distribution, with all the cardboard boxes and things
It could be really cute with all the tiny capsules
But that has already been done
With this mini gachapon inception!
How cute is this?!
I definitely want one
They're tiny gachapon machines
And they actually work
Although I think they look like they could only take about 1 coin
Then they'd be full up
Now you know I love hamster gachapon
Because hamsters are the cutest
Here's my hamster: Kyary Hamu Hamu
There's been so many series of Cafe de Hamu gachapon
With hamsters on all sorts of cakes, sweets & teapots
And they're all adorable
Now, we've got hamsters on high school gym equipment
Having a mini workout
And on the subject of the school gym
Remember that box - I think it might have been called the horse or something
That was always impossible to jump over?
Well it was for me
I was really rubbish at sports
Now you can get a mini gachapon version for your desk
To put all your stationery in
There's a realistic version
Or it comes in a variety of pastel colours
Obviously, you'd want to get the pastel rainbow one
Now before, in my gachapon round-up videos
We've seen things like scrap cars
And old trains from abandoned theme park rides
So I'm thinking, there's a kind of category of gachapon
That's scrap / abandoned / old items
And now, there's a new addition to the category:
Trash in the pond!
They're jsut old items that have been thrown into a lake
And there's a mystery item
How exciting!
Next: goldfish that don't like the rain?!
At first I thought this was just a strange gachapon idea
But it turns out it's actually quite cultural
They're based on old Japanese artwork from the 1800s
There's some really funny ones
And they look just like this
So these gachapon are taken directly
From one of the prints from the 1800s
Next up, in the miniature items category
We've got bins
With fully operating lids
And they come with plastic bin liners
I want to know if the cat's included as well?!
Light-up traffic cones for your desk
To keep everything in order
Before, quite a popular gachapon series was the inupan doggy bread
With things like sausage dogs in hotdogs
And dogs in sandwiches
Now that concept's been developed
And fully expanded
And we've got: dogs as food
This corgi actually doesn't look that strange as a loaf of bread
There's a bagel dog
This one's a piece of convenience store fried chicken
And look at this pomeranian
He's a bowl of rice!
So that's it for this time.
If you want to see my other gachapon videos
They're all in a playlist on my channel
And if you're going to Japan
Enjoy your gachapon hunting
And tell me what you find
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And I'll be back next week
With more Japan travel videos
I'll see you on Thursday