Denki anma is just one example of Japanese High Weirdness.
Here’s a conversation that my friend Kelly recently had:
Kelly’s friend: Want to hear something funny?
Kelly: [Looks up from her laptop]
Kelly’s friend: In the Japanese version of Romper Room —
Kelly: Stop.
Oh, my sweet summer child, do you not know about the “Loofah Code” in The…
...and by that, I mean, being completely ignorant of the larger world outside the U.S.…
Wednesday, August 7, 1991: A sunny day at Toronto’s CNE Grandstand, and what a lineup:…
The cover painting says it all.
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Funny. A YouTube search of "Japanese version Romper Room" turned up this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC_fLUvm16A
Even weirder than the accordion version I bet
Not tentacles, but testicles.
What's wrong with a few tentacles? I can't imagine a child not getting a kick out of Syd Barrett and tentacles in this video from Gimme Gimme Octopus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRhltUYSFy8