If you're not familiar with the Japanese comedian whose schtick is a character called Hard Gay, you clearly haven't been wasting time on Youtube. Suffice to say he takes the Leather Queen stereotype to the max, and plays it for all it's comic possibilities in situations all across Tokyo. And like celebrities everywhere his image has turned up on products. So what would be an appropriate product for a character like this? Why a children's toy of course.
Gaku, a friend in Tokyo, sent me this little item. This toy/game involved kids sticking swords into a barrel, and the player whose sword leads the man in the barrel to jump out loses. The man in the barrel used to be a pirate. But he has been replaced with Hard Gay. The unconscious psychological implications of this are just to bizarre even for Japan.
Here you see Hard Gay in his Leather Cap and dark sunglasses appearing out of the barrel much like a magician's assistant at the end of the usual sword in a barrel trick.
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