Month: March 2015

It is safe to say that the KitKat has well and truly established itself in Japanese culture. Nestlé has produced over 200 special edition flavors of the chocolate bar since 2000, which include gems such as creme brulée, ginger ale, cherry blossom, melon, soy sauce, baked potato, blueberry cheesecake, strawberry cheesecake, apple, pumpkin, brandy & orange, red bean paste, apricot seed, choco-banana, peach, fruit parfait, pear, mango, lemon, yuzu, salty watermelon, muscat grape, rum & raisin, cinnamon, apple vinegar, sports drink, pineapple, kiwi, caramel, maple, chestnut, edamame, purple sweet potato, french rock salt, wasabi, hot Japanese chili, creamy English tea, jasmine tea and green tea flavours. The newest addition to Japan’s seemingly endless list of KitKat creativity is the KitKat sandwich.

First Kitchen, a fast food franchise in Japan, are selling KitKats covered in whipped cream and orange peel sandwiched between two slices of white bread. The KitKats used aren’t your ordinary bars either. The sandwiches use ‘KitKat for Cafe’, which are apparently more robust bars designed specifically for dipping in hot drinks, to make the sandwiches more crispy. (Side note: WANT!!!) The sandwich is only 220 yen (£1.23) and despite sounding like something only a desperate university student would cook up, has been praised by those brave enough to try it.

Valeria Lukyanova is a Moldovan-Ukrainian model and entertainer, notable for her resemblance to a Barbie doll, with several sources describing her as, among other handles, a “real-life Barbie doll” and “human Barbie”.To enhance the effect Lukyanova uses makeup and contact lenses over her naturally green eyes. She has stated that she has had breast implants, but that the rest of her body is completely natural and slender due to daily gym workouts and a special liquid diet.

Anastasiya Shpagina, a 19-year-old Ukrainian woman, has brightly colored hair, pale skin and a doe-eyed stare that could be mistaken for an actual cartoon. The living anime character has even adopted a Japanese name – Fukkacumi. Shpagina, who is just 5ft2ins tall, is already reported to have slimmed down to just over six stone in her attempts to resemble a living anime character, and is said to spend 30 minutes painstakingly applying her dramatic make-up to each one of her eyes.