Here's a picture of a real life anime girl trapped in a white man's body. Look how happy he looks! Plus if you want to read his fortune, you have the perfect palm shot to do it with. This is actually Chris, one of my editors at Wired, who knows more about Japan than I do, even though he's from Texas and I'm from Tokyo.
This is the same genre of old school Japanese kids' toys as the Ultraman mask I posted last week. Very plastic, very by-the-manga masks that tie behind your head with a rubber band. They used to have all these different kinds, like you could be Doraemon and your friend could be Nobita-kun, and you could run around your 'hood causing trouble and then solving it with tools from the future.
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