It’s interesting when real world trends manifest themselves in unexpected ways. Take bananas for example…
This year has been all about the “morning banana diet” which came from the runaway hit book of the same name that’s all about eating lots of bananas for breakfast to lose the extra kilos. 700,000 copies don’t lie.
Of course, if you think you’ve heard something similar…you have…but the banana diet has more holding power and supermarkets can barely keep them in stock! For a country that imports 102 million tons annually, that’s not an easy feat.
As a result, we have two market trends in one little toy. Epoch is now entering the “infinite toy” market with it’s Endless Banana, which encapsulates the production trend of infinite menial (yet fun) tasks with the consumer trend of bananas, bananas, bananas.
It even has it’s own embedded sound with voice actress Saki Fujita, adding the necessary moe element to a banana that you get to peel over and over again, even simulating the feeling of it while peeling.
Now comes the question: What seemingly boring things would you like to do over and over again, but in a simulation?
Michael is the Editor of JapanTrends.com and Director of the 
They all make the PERON sound, but there are even multiple versions of the banana you can choose between with an additional sound: アホなバナナ=idiot banana, ツンデレバナナ=tsundere banana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundere), セクシーバナナ=sexy banana. Dunno what #3 is since I suck at kanji.
You can see them here: http://www.toysyukky.com/product/211 (click the image to enlarge)
a portable toy that puts you in a loop of opening boxes til your heart’s
Hi there,
Where can I purchase this banana toy?
Thank you.