Symbolic victories are delicious

The animal kingdom can become surprisingly powerful out of nowhere at times. Some days, you’ll experience normal sized monsters, and other days, you’ll experience abnormally large sized monsters. Especially the ocean! It’s full of gigantic beasts that are just waiting to kill us. The only thing you can do in these situations is man up and bring your hunger with you.

How about if we raise the bar a notch, and see you take on some super sushi thanks to some heroes? The video takes us to a quaint sushi restaurant in Aichi prefecture that not only serves some amazing sushi, but some Godzilla size futo maki and nigiri sushi.

When you make it that big, it doesn’t lose some of its appeal. On the contrary, it gains massive appeal (see what I did there?)! Not only that, we take out some of their greatest warriors. Delicious and beneficial: What could be better?

We all need friends, even the inanimate ones

The typical Tanuki statue has several key features that represent eight good traits to have, including perception, trustworthiness, decisiveness and resolve, but in light of this recent incident, perhaps a new one should be added: companionship.

Osamu Kimura, a 41-year-old resident of Aichi prefecture, was caught trying to pilfer a ceramic Tanuki from someone’s garden. Upon conducting a search of the man’s house, police found 15 other Tanuki statues, along with various frogs and dogs, overall coming up to over 30 stolen decorative garden figures. When questioned, Kimura said that he had been lonely living alone since his father and brother passed away, and had been nicking the statues for nearly a year to, of all things, talk to.

For a country as densely inhabited as Japan, to have people so desperate for human contact as to start talking to figures seems a bit odd. Then again, perhaps that density simply exacerbates the situation, making it harder to find friends?

Oh, and one quick note: another thing that tanunkis are known for? Balls. Big, massive balls.