Japanese kids shows and Conan O'Brien

 Yesterday I went garage saling (or however you spell it) with my family. I had shit luck yesterday. HOWEVER, I did find two things.


I found not one, but TWO kid's VHS tapes from JAPAN! The first one is a geography video from 2001, very roughly translated into "First Knowledge Videos: What is a World Map?". Featuring a CGI professor and two random CGI Japanese kids!
Distributed by Gakken Video, the second one is a kanji learning video for second graders, which helps you "Learn kanji through anime". It's a full-on anime with a theme song and everything. There's even a kanji superhero!
They also had Bambi on tape in Japanese but I didn't get that. The sellers weren't Japanese so no idea how they got ahold of these.


Though my luck may be dry these days, I did at least get a new eBay package! It's the 10th anniversary special of Late Night with Conan O'Brien on DVD!!! Only $7 AND SEALED!!!

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