She Loves Me Not (Look, It's Complicated)

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[Destination: Japan] Mountain Day

Today is the very first Mountain Day in Japan! Happy Mountain Day.  The amendment creating it was only passed in 2014 and is intended “to give opportunities to get close to mountains and to appreciate the benefits of mountains.”

The greatest entity that has ever been associated with mountains is, of course, the yeti. And mountains benefit yetis, and yetis are also worthy of appreciation.

Here's other yeti appreciation that can be found in Japan:

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First off, be sure to go to the Trick Art Museum at the foot of Mt. Takao west of Tokyo and stand in the gaping maw (and in gaping awe) of this sculpture:

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Then take in all these great depictions all over the place:

Yukiotoko! From fantastic gallery from GeGeGe no Kitaro

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From the anime Aikatsu!

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Cartoon: Yokai Watch, Season 1, Episode 64

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And last but not least, one can get a yeti crab backpack in Japan! HOLY WOW.

You can buy it from Japanese retailer Felissimo! *

* Felissimo is putting funds from each purchase towards coastal clean-ups, coral reef conservation activities, and the donation of teaching materials to marine schools. Each item in the range retails for 2,156 yen on Felissimo’s online Japanese store or US$19.56 on their international webstore. Be aware, though, that the series is actually sold as a set with a different item being sent out every month for four months. Source

[Mammal Week] Cats

Yeti loves cats.

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There's a brand new preschool kids show on Amazon Prime - just a pilot - but response is very positive so a full series seems possible - that is about a cat who is friends with a yeti!

It's stop-motion animated (yay, stop-motion!) and it's called: The Curious Kitty & Friends

An example of the Relucant Monster trope.

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Although I can't find official confirmation, it seems pretty clear that The Curious Kitty & Friends is an American adaptation of a Japanese kids show -   Little Nekko 꼬마네꼬 - which also had the same yeti friend for the purrtagonist. But he looks a lot less polished and friendly than the American version.

See what I mean?

 

[Morbid Monday] Skulls

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Skull Apparel:

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Skull-faced Jilarji from Go! Godman

Monday's Troll by Jack Prelutsky and Peter Sis (1996) ...

Has this poem and illustration:

A SOLITARY YETI

I'm a solitary yeti,

Traversing frozen plains,

Upon a constant lookout

For dinosaur remains.

I savor them for supper,

I relish them for lunch,

Their flavor is peculiar,

But I adore the crunch.

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Temple Run 2: Frozen Shadows (2015):

Haunted Empire (2015):

Oddity 3 (Yeti Arcade: Japan World Cup 3)

Japan World Cup 3 (2013):

Yeti Arcade: Legend of Xanadu

The Legend of Xanadu (1994) has a tribe of Totoroesque yeti:

And a yeti playable character:

[Destination: Japan] Snowman of the Rising Sun

Japan loves the yeti. (Previous evidence: here)

Did you know? They have their own yeti-like cryptid, the Ningen. It's a sort of creepy, swimming, frozen sea yeti of the Antarctic.

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Anyway, the Japanese yeti-love continues...

The Yeti Cafe in Mito, Ibaraki:

 

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Doraemon is a manga turned anime series about a robotic time-traveling cat. The character is considered a Japanese cultural icon, cemented by the fact that, in March 2008, Japan's Foreign Ministry appointed Doraemon as the nation's first "anime ambassador".

In one ep, he encounters this other cultural icon:

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Note the mascot for the Shiga Kogen Resort in Nagano Japan:

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And be sure to play Monster Retsuden Oreca Battle, a trading card arcade game:

 

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Finally, do observe some book illustrations: