Like a Bread
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 "Maru de pan mitai na series" is helpfully translated on this UFO catcher as "like a bread" – proof, if proof be need be, that understanding Japanese is not the same as understanding Japanese things.

[A little UFO catcher series – 1 of 2]

These crane game prizes are plush models of slices of bread. The poster says you can put your phone in them, or wear them like a sporran. But that's just a suggestion: sometimes a plush breadslice is just a plush breadslice…

Zero calories, the "menu" notes helpfully.

Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people