Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan

Shouts to the Gavster, Mandarin of Taipei and Grand olla podrida of the South China Seas for pointing out this classic Japanese toilet training anime. Toilet humour is something quite unexpected from the Japanese. But once one spends some time in Asia, one realises that there is a completely different attitude to this topic. For example, in his diaries, Chairman Mao frequently describes the status of hos stool in order to record his physical state at the time.

While this is quite a serious video, aimed at getting kids to use the toilet (and I know from a friends experience how difficult that can actually be), Japanese institutions like the kancho come right out of the blue!

So cute! So gross! And yet so cute!