2017年6月9日金曜日 - 
Tony: May Seasonal impressions.
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In my family
May is when we start to get happy about Spring.
Although the cherry blossoms are finished and summer days when the
temperature is 25 are not uncommon, we
are finally finished with the hay fever season. Golden week has the special meaning of by pollen allergy for us. What
a blessing!
This year I
have become a student of Ultraman. My
son is five and completely into the world of Ultraman and the INSANELY HUGE cast of characters in the franchise.
Not only are there the various Ultramen and the Kaiju they fight, there
are Ex types, Mecha types, Chaos types, Dark types, and I don't know what
else.
The original Ultraman series that
everyone loves dates from 1966, so you can imagine that over the past fifty years there has been innumerable characters introduced that, most
importantly for my son, are also available as toy figures to buy. And as a five year old these days, he doesn't
understand that the TV show he's watching was produced in the sixties or the seventies or whenever and
that the toy based on the character from the show he watched this afternoon
hasn't been in stores for forty years.
And the kicker is that despite the
figures not being available in stores, they are available through secondary sources like eBay, Mercari, Yahoo, or
second hand shops. Oh, my wallet!
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Uncommon：珍しい
hay
fever season：花粉症の季節
pollen
allergy：花粉のアレルギー
What
a blessing!：ありがたい!
INSANELY
HUGE：異様に巨大な
franchise：フランチャイズ
Mecha：メカ
Chaos：カオス
over
the past fifty years：過去50年間に
innumerable：無数の
despite：～にもかかわらず
secondary
sources：中古の供給源