A Stitch in Time

[tikistitch]

Twelve months of Stitch???



In Japan, Stitch doesn't have to share his calendar with any other Disney characters. (Other than Lilo. And the duckies.)





Plus, you get stickers.



But wait--there's more! The Lilo & Stitch 2006 schedule!



Featuring 365 days of Stitchy goodness.



Including our favorite cartoon gay couple, Jumba and Pleakley!

Comments

[twotone]

Awesomeness!

I'm lost as to why they made the schedule "useable from October onwards". I have several schedule sets from Japan that begin and end at odd months, so I have to make my own pages to fill in the gaps. :p

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

The Jenny calendar girls used to run from something like September to August. I had assumed it was just to go with the school schedule. But maybe calendar makers are just more random over there?

[twotone]

The Japanese school year starts in April, though. And ends in March. (Which is why many Japanese students have homework assignments during their summer break, as well as extracurricular activities during summer. Which seems like a COMPLETE BETRAYAL of all that summer vacation ought to be... but at least it makes for interesting manga and anime filler episodes.)

[sarahpolk.livejournal.com]

Summer vacation was initially provided for here in the U.S. so that kids could go help their family tend to the farm during picking season. That didn't happen in Japan.

Japanese summer vacation is only about a month long, anyway. It's not nearly the big vacation that we would think of it as, but that's also the reason all the vacation spots get packed in August.

Here's a thought: October is the start of the fiscal year for the U.S. Federal government.

[meekorouse.livejournal.com]

Most calendars begin in Sept here for the school year.. maybe for Japan it's similar.. hmmm Supreme court starts in October.. maybe in Japan they have similar reasoning.. school.. government.. *shrug*

[sarahpolk.livejournal.com]

Like twotone said, it starts in April there.

[sarahpolk.livejournal.com]

BTW, note the little round red sticker at the top right of the calendar: It says "kawaii sheeru tsuki" -- "cute stuckers included." There is our favorite word: "Kawaii." (ka-wa-eeeeeeeeee, not to be confused with Kauai, where L&S live).

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to de-kawaii-fy my vocabulary after twotone mentioned that misuse of nihongo by people who don't really know what they're doing can be annoying to Japanese speakers.

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

I saw an eBay auction a couple years ago where the seller was trying to describe her item as "kawaii" but somehow came up with "kiree." Uh...

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

That's....inventive!!