{"id":36546,"date":"2018-01-09T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animenation.net\/?p=36546"},"modified":"2018-01-09T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T02:20:10","slug":"doraemon-mk-2-sells-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/doraemon-mk-2-sells-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Doraemon Mk. 2 Sells Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pikachin-Kit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pikachin-Kit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pikachin-Kit.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pikachin-Kit-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pikachin-Kit-768x443.png 768w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pikachin-Kit-450x259.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pre-adolescent boy lives with a robot pet from the future. The boy\u2019s daily life involves a crush on his female classmate as well as an assortment of mechanical gadgets. The most prominent of these gadgets is one that the boy wears on his head. Given such a description, likely nine out of ten Japanese people would immediately and correctly identify Fujiko F. Fujio\u2019s <em>Doraemon<\/em>. Except the description also applies precisely to this season\u2019s fascinating new children\u2019s anime series <a href=\"http:\/\/pikachin.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pochitto Hatsumei: Pikachin-Kit<\/a>. <em>Doraemon<\/em>\u2019s Nobita Nobi is a fourth-grader. Pikachin-Kit\u2019s Eiji Tomatsu is a fifth-grader. One of the most prominent and famous of Doraemon\u2019s gadget\u2019s is the \u201ctake-copter\u201d worn on one\u2019s head. <em>Pikachin-Kit\u2019s<\/em> most prominent gadget is the \u201ccunninglasses\u201d pair of goggles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gadgets.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gadgets.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gadgets.png 1474w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gadgets-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gadgets-768x250.png 768w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gadgets-450x147.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fascinating aspect of <em>Pikachin-Kit<\/em> is exactly how blatantly commercial the show is and particularly where it gets its inspirations from. Bandai plastic models have been prominent in anime including <em>Gunpla Builders<\/em> and <em>Keroro Gunso<\/em>. The plastic model kits that Eiji acquires and constructs in <em>Pikachin-Kit<\/em> aren\u2019t branded with the Bandai logo, but Bandai is one of the program\u2019s primary sponsors. Amazon makes its first major leap into anime by not just co-sponsoring the series but actually appearing in the show as the practically magical delivery service of Eiji\u2019s wildest dreams. Moreover, <em>Pikachin-Kit<\/em> seems to even draw inspiration from the \u201cDanbooru Gundam\u201d meme, cosplayer Paul M. Palgen\u2019s impromptu costume from the 2003 Anime Central convention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/danbooru.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/danbooru.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"251\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/danbooru.png 2109w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/danbooru-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/danbooru-768x316.png 768w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/danbooru-450x185.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Particularly <em>kodomo<\/em> anime are frequently criticized as little more than lightly disguised toy commercials. <em>Pikachin-Kit<\/em> is fascinating because it nearly entirely eschews even the thinnest veneer of separating advertising from entertainment. Moreover, the show bizarrely targets preadolescent children yet satirically references concepts that older viewers will recognize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pre-adolescent boy lives with a robot pet from the future. The boy\u2019s daily life involves a crush on his female classmate as well as an assortment of mechanical gadgets. The most prominent of these gadgets is one that the boy wears on his head. 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