WTF??!!It was cute until Ronald McDonald comes…….

… and some of the cute products here:
http://www.taito.co.jp/gc/prize/popup_mamepage.html

They are everywhere in Tokyo right now and the range of products is huge.

I bought this cute little keychain:
http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/edamame-mameshiba-soy-bean-pod-toy-keychain

and a couple of other products, see display in Tokyo shopping mall here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-OcfZ0cYW8&feature=PlayList&p=1AD0F839BB073496&index=0&playnext=1

There are 8 videos in the mame-shiba site but you need a Japanese IP to see it. Most you see on youtube are edited with nuclear explosions and Ronald stuff, not the originals.

Wtf?
I lol’d
xD

Japanese stuff is so cute!

Edamame Bean of Exsistantial Despair. That actually sounds pretty normal, for the wackiness that is Japanese humor.

I thought it was like, Horton Hears a Edamame Bean.

1st one:
It’s saying that there are 200,000,000 germs in Kangaroo’s belly.

2nd one:
French Dandelion is extremely stinky.

3rd one:
kangaroo’s bed-wetting is extremely stinky

Just so you know, you can totally buy some of these guys.

http://www.yesasia.com/us/mugen-soybeans/1010688360-0-0-0-en/info.html

This reminds me of one the things I liked least when I lived in Japan – that “glug glug glug” swallowing sound they played in all the beer ads. Ugh. Completely gives me the willies.

hey, as for the “real” versions, it looks fairly likely that they had multiple audio tracks- maybe every time it ran it was different. youtube Japan has a ton of them.

there are sooooo many comments that i didn’t get to read all of them, but if it hasn’t already been said, i’ll point out that the little mame-shiba is trying to disgust people out of eating it by saying weird facts.