January 27, 2005
Aliens assimilating into the mannequin population
While puttering around in 大宮 yesterday in perhaps one of the cooler department stores on the planet, I bumped into the second one of these I've seen ... both in the same store. This is positively frightening. I wouldn't want to bump into one of these in a dark alley. What a mannequin would be doing in a dark alley is beyond me.
In the West, cartoons typically imitate life. It seems in Japan, life (or some semblance of it in the case of this mannequin) imitates cartoons. Overly-big eyes look cute and somehow "okay" in Manga and Anime, but seeing this on an imitation of a real person makes it look rather disturbing.
