YATTA! \o/

I went to Little Tokyo for the opening ceremony of the Tanabata Festival today and before going to dinner I stopped in one of the shops to buy a little something for a friend. And then I went into full otaku mode when I saw this:



This will maybe make no sense at all for most of my flist, but I've been looking for a kendama for years, ever since I saw one at a comic fair (I was still in school, so it was a long time ago). I didn't buy it then and I've regretted ever since. But now I have one! Yatta! \o/

Of course it all goes back to the cartoon Yattaman, which was very popular in Italy in the '80s. These were the opening credits:

I'm such an otaku...