Sterile

[tikistitch]

If you haven't visited Japan, you may not be familiar with an awfully nice custom: people with colds tend to wear little face masks, so as not to cover the healthy persons with their various horrible germs. Of course, given the Japanese mania for licensing, and the fact that little kids are particularly prone to runny noses, thus we have...the official Lilo & Stitch sterile face mask!





Here's another kind, with a jaunty "Aloha!" on it.

Comments

[spazzygirl19.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought it was only in all of Asia like during the SARS outbreak.
Do you know if bank robberies are committed with people wearing the face masks? Remember - I worked in that tall office building where the bank downstairs was robbed by 3 guys wearing masks Nixon & other masks - it was Halloween.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought it was only in all of Asia like during the SARS outbreak.

So, the schoolkids we saw on the Tokyo subway wearing masks all had SARS?

[keeper1st.livejournal.com]

No; they were gang members.

Wearing the surgical type mask is a typical gang trait in Japan and South Korea. (This is why one of the rabbit gang members in SamBakZa's "Cake Dance" animation has a surgical mask on. You also see one on some gang kids in a scene of the popular Fruits Basket manga.)

If you haven't seen SamBakZa's animations, you must. Part 3 of the story is due soon. But watch parts 1 and 2 for now...
http://www.sambakza.net/peom/tteotta_eng.htm
http://www.sambakza.net/peom/cakedance_eng.htm

So cute, and match the music so well, and tell the story so well without any dialogue, and the second one in particular has so many subtleties between the characters (a couple of which were seen briefly in the first part).

[sinderellah.livejournal.com]

I've seen it done a few times here as well, actually. Not a bad idea when you think about it! Perhaps us north americans are of the thinking "if I give it to someone else, I'll be rid of it faster!" ;D

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

After riding the bus and sharing an elevator with people who cough and sneeze and don't bother to cover their nose and mouth, I really wish they'd start wearing them here.

[sinderellah.livejournal.com]

http://media.smays.com/blog/blogimages/sarsmasks.jpg

and people could be so fashionable here too!

[pirkaslimegirl.livejournal.com]

That's pretty wierd, but I agree that people who cough and sneeze without covering their mouth are just plain gross...why not cover it with Stitchie instead? ^_^