In Mexico May 5 is Cinco de Mayo. In Japan, it's Childrens' Day, also known as "Boys' Day". It was originally just for boys, I guess, since girls have a day to themselves on March 3. So even though it's called "Kodomono hi" (litereally Childrens' Day) all the tradition that go with it pertain to boys. One of them is putting up a samurai outfit doll in your house. It's way too expensive and fragile so you can't play with it or anything, and besides, playing with dolls is for girls anyway with the exception of GI Joe's and Kinnikuman figurines. It just sits there looking angry with its crazy black mask that usually has a white mustache and crazy teeth. At least the one we had did.
But there is a new samurai doll in town. The Darth Vader samurai, available for approximately $2,800. I'm not particularly a Star Wars fan and to tell you the truth I haven't even seen all the movies (not even all the original ones), but it looks pretty cool. He looks like he's been doing it for years. He's a natural.
Ok, so I was only mildy amused by this doll and decided to blog about it because the photos were pretty nice. What I wanted to say was that this reminded me of the Imperial March, which to me is just Dave Dameshek singing "Creep of the Week".
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