Since I came to Japan I've been consistently delighted by the amount of Anime related merchandise available pretty much everywhere. This always seemed exceptional to me, but while I was wandering around my local thrift store it occurred to me that the Anime products I find so interesting here, like this Kiki's Delivery Service toilet seat cover, are really just the Japanese equivalent of the Disney and Looney Toons products that litter US thrift stores. Looking through the shelves of random coffee cups you find images Astro Boy and Sailor Moon that probably seem to Japanese people like Sylvester the cat and Tweety Bird seem to us.
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