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YOKOHAMA — The masses of children and the standing-room-only crowds at the Anpanman Museum did not intimidate K-Zilla As the cheerful theme music of the Japanese cartoon character echoed through the halls, K-Zilla elbowed his way to the front of crowds and pushed other toddlers off toys.
“It’s going to be a problem in the future,” said K-Zilla’s dad, Yuya, of K-Zilla’s destruction. “He has no mercy toward anything.”
On Monday, K-Zilla and his parents visited the Anpanman Children’s Museum in Yokohama, Japan. Anapanman, a popular children’s cartoon in Japan, is about a superhero character whose head is made of up an anpan (a sweet bean paste) bread bun. The other characters in the series are also named after food.
(photo: Kekoa eating an anpan bread bun in the shape of Anpanman’s head)
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Obaachan (K-Zilla’s grandma) started last year buying Anpanman DVDs for K-Zilla. He watches the show every morning and eats breakfast while his mom gets ready for the day. Kekoa recognizes most of the Anpanman songs and can perform the hand motions.
"Anpanman is practically taking care of my son in the morning,” Jill said.
The Anpanman Children’s Museum has three floors. The top floor has diorama displays of different Anapanman episodes and plastic figurines of the cartoon characters.
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The floor also has interactive play sets of different scenes in the Anpanman shows, including the Uncle Jamu’s bakery (the place where Anpanman was born/baked) and the Anpanman submarine. Obaachan waited in line for 20 minutes so Kekoa would have a turn to play in the submarine. Kekoa kept trying to dash into the submarine before his turn, but the Anpanman staff would stop him and carry him out of the submarine. When K-Zilla finally got his turn, an museum staff member used a stopwatch to time his playtime for 30 seconds. Yuya had to pull out Kekoa out of the submarine and he was kicking and screaming.
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The second floor has other interactive sets from the Anpanman series …
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and a play area filled with Anpanman-theme toys, obviously a shameless marketing ploy for parents to buy the Anpanman toys – and you better believe that Yuya and Jill fell for it. They kept saying “oh, Kekoa would love this toy! Let’s look for it at the gift shop.”
On the second floor, Kekoa spent most of his time at the dancing area. Staff members lead the children in the motions of the Anpanman songs. Kekoa did not want to leave the area when the staff members were done leading the dances. He kept dancing to another Anapanman DVD that kept playing over and over and over again.
"I just wanted it to stop before the song got stuck in my head,” Yuya said. “It was torture.”
Yuya had to (again) forcibly carry Kekoa out of the area and Kekoa was kicking and screaming.
“We better be in shape when we take Kekoa to Disneyland,” Yuya said, obviously out of breath, when he was chasing Kekoa on an outdoor Anpanman playground. “It’s going to be ten times worse.”
(photo: Kekoa with Shokupan man. Shokupan means bread in Japanese)
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