10 Fun Ass Years of Funassyi!!! A Retrospective of TV, Music, Games and (if there's time) Pears.....

If you ever watched Japanese TV between 2013 and oh.. say 2018, you know exactly what I'm talking about! (Chapter markers and more below...) 0:00 Mojaro Cares! 0:07 GTV ID: Always Bearing Fruit 0:14 Prologue: An Army of Plush Buggers 0:56 Act 1: Funassyi’s Story 7:11 CM 1: Kanju Homes (Japan, 2014) 7:43 Act 2: Funassyi’s Media 15:43 CM 2: Virus Off (Japan, 2015) 16:00 Act 3: Funassyi’s Legacy Episode Information GTV 133 "10 Funass-years!" Season 7 Episode 11 Original Airdate: July 29, 2022 Produced July 20-24, 2022 Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my all new 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, which my job paid for, but apparently, not for much longer... Other great GTV episodes with celebrities in them! Double Identity    • Professor Layton Voice Actor is in Nintend...   Guts Pose    • Video   For The Record Altered Beast    • Video   Who Are Kato & Ken?    • “Who Are Kato & Ken?” or “Why Is the Game ...   Rational Ebullience    • Yatta! The Legend of Green Leaves by Happa...   Elec-Man VS. Journey    • The Mega Man 1 Elec Man Stage Music Coinci...   Hulk Hogan Manga Mania!    • Video   Meet Mr. Sega    • Let's Meet Mr. Sega, Hidekazu Yukawa! (194...   Zelda 2 and the 1988 Chip Shortage    • Nuts For Nintendo! Was the Christmas 1988 ...   Monkey Magic    • "How One Song Made 'Journey to the West' C...   Segata Sanshiro    • Forever in Our Hearts: The Segata Sanshiro...   The Legendary Mother    • The Legendary Mother: A Live Action RPG So...   Club Nintendo    • Club Nintendo: The Story of Gus Rodriguez ...   Ken Uston: The Gamer Gambler    • The Legend of Ken Uston: The Gamer Gambler   King of Keirin    • The Legend of Koichi Nakano: The King of K...   Partial Transcript Oh yesss, Funasshi! A dear old friend to all! The little pear fairy plucked from obscurity to become the most famous Japanese Tarento of the 2010s (and likely for many, the most annoying too!) From an outsider’s point of view its quite easy to look at Funasshi from afar, shake your head and say “oh that Crazy Japan, up to its old antics again. And even on The Island, it was quite puzzling why this screaming yellow zonker was so beloved. Coming out of nowhere, seemingly overnight, without much reasoning or explanation involved. This character, Funasshi! Appeared on the scene way back in the year 2013 and for a good number of years, DAILY! He.. she .. or it was everywhere, on TV nearly 24 hours a day, or at least it felt like it, with additional appearances in CMs, PVs CDs DVDs! (And a bunch of other acronyms) To understand the lay of the land in 2013, you have to go back to the Turn of the Century, no not the that one, the next one! As Japan entered the “zero-zeros” the nation as a whole started to adopt cute little mascots to represent their respective towns and cities. Officially these are known as “Yuru-chara” A portmanteau of the words Yurui, meaning relaxing, calm or peaceful, and character. [As an aside I think this is the tenth time I’ve used the word portmanteau in a video (trophy sound!) Nice Get!!] Yuru-Charas are means to convey some image or feeling about the town it represents, and ends up plastered on every poster, menu, stop sign, tax bill and you name it.