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Hi there, we're still in Tokyo.
We made it to the Ikebukuro area and found the museum of shonen anime,
so basically the kind of anime that's all about guys fighting.
This place focuses mostly on Dragon Ball, Naruto and One Piece
but there's some other series as well.
Let's see what they've got here.
First highlight - a One Piece inspired merry-go-round.
Series fans will surely appreciate the vibe.
Oh, and here we have a photo spot. Photo...
Photo... I don't really know what that is.
Right, there's the drawing of what you're supposed to do.
A really cool thing here is this entire little port street built in the style of One Piece,
with all the shops and stuff.
Well, you can't really go inside, it's all fake,
but the atmosphere is awesome.
This is the entertainment area
with all the things you'd typically find in a Japanese arcade.
For example the 'UFO catchers'.
You put a coin in and try to catch a token.
We'll try to catch a teddy bear, this one here
Put another way, it's basically burning your money.
The arcade version of Dragon Ball games
they're the ones created by Namco Bandai
Namco owns this museum actually - duh.
Here's a collection of some groovy figurines. They're really well made.
Nah, you could'n really tell.
I'm putting 300 yen in, so roughly 3 dollars
Yay. I got a dragon.
3 dollars for a Dragon Ball dragon.
It's a dragon that fullfills your wishes.
Well I got a handbag.
My lucky day apparently.
And here you can take a picture.
Look into the camera.
Looking good. It's Dragon Ball, so
instead of hearts there's gonna be blood, I guess.
Waiting while the picture's being printed.
Now that's money well spent.
We're in the Dragon Ball-themed part of the building.
If you walk two floors down you can see, uh
uh, I don't really know what it was.
Didn't make much sense.
Some sort of decorations on the walls, posters.
The Dragon Ball area is very dissapointing, there's barely anything here.
Oh, but that's cool.
You walk in, push the button
and it measures your power level. Look.
Let's give it a try.
A Dragon Ball diorama.
And that's how I won a pin with Byakuya Kuchiki, a character from Bleach.
Not a very ambitious game, this one.
You basically have to pull a wooden stick out.
The Naruto part of the museum barely even exists,
there's not much here except for some decorations.
Right, this is our shonen snack set, with a Dragon Ball drink
I mean, it's 'Dragon Ball' purely because it says so on the label,
when you take it off it's just a smoothie.
Plus, there's a Dragon Ball dumpling shaped as Buu,
in Polish version it was Boo-Boo for some reason.
It's the same type of pastry we showed you yesterday, with the bean paste filling.
And this one here
is a little cup with Luffy from One Piece. Decorated with a bun
It's just like those back home.
an ordinary Polish bun with jam.
Underneath there's soup, corn soup to be specific.
Naruto likes to eat ramen for that matter.
...And the gift shop. Different anime gadgets.
You can even buy bath salts here.
Naruto head gear!
I'm not going to buy it though.
So, that's what shonen museum looks like,
we didn't even know it existed before we came to Tokyo.
It's just a tip of the iceberg when it comes to investigating Japanese pop-culture,
and what we have in plans for the next couple of weeks.
We'll show you the arcade parlours, manga and anime shops, the figurines and all that stuff.
There's a lot of it, really
but we'll do our best, so keep watching us.
See you.