XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: robkelk@deadspam.com   
      
   On 19 Oct 2007 18:46:56 +1100, Chris Kuan   
    wrote:   
      
   >Eric Schwartz  wrote on Fri 19 Oct 2007 03:13:08a   
   >   
   >> Also, my wife loved these cute little fish-shaped waffle thingies   
   >> stuffed with sweet red bean paste we found in a department store in   
   >> Ginza.   
   >   
   >Taiyaki.    
   >   
   >If Gilles is reading this, there is a reference to these in the anime   
   >_Banno Bunka Neko Musume_ (All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku) where   
   >NukuNuku is eating these on the roof, and (I think) later gets a job in   
   >order to afford.   
      
   IIRC, the illustration for taiyaki in the Anime Companion is of   
   Nuku-Nuku eating one.   
      
      
      
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