First art not made by a faction has emerged from the Void!

Character: Funassyi

The latest rather infrequent roundup of all that’s going on in the World of Pear Fairies!

Funassyi 5 Year On Earth Anniversary Project

More details in in this post.

Funassyi Bus Tour

274ch has announced a one day bus tour to take place in Hanyu, Saitama on November 27 - the Monday after the Gotouchi Chara event in the same town. The tour includes a Lunch Party Show starring the Pear(s), a tour of 274 video location spots (I’m not sure if this means you get to see them shooting a 274ch video) and so on. You must enter a drawing between now and 15:00 on October 30 for the right to purchase a ticket. If you are picked, the tour will cost 19,440 yen including tax. The tour is limited to 160 people or 4 bus loads.

See details on the 274ch site (Japanese only).

Live events/appearances by Funassyi

November 18: 2018 Funassyi Calendar 5th Anniversary event at Toho Cinemas Screen 4, Lalaport Tokyo Bay, Funabashi; 14:00 (details on official calendar site). Reserve either the wall or desktop calendar from any Funassyiland between now and October 22nd to receive an entry sticker for the event seat drawing

November 26: World Chara Summit in Hanyu, Saitama (official site). Note that the festival will be on November 25-26, but Funassyi will be there on the 26th only. Both Funagoro and Funassyi will be there on both days.

December 1: Act Against AIDS 2017: THE VARIETY charity concert at Budokan, Tokyo (website)

December 10: Akiba Entertainment Marathon (AEM) Chara Supo Festival, Health Square, Hibiya Park, Tokyo - a gotouchi chara festival connected with the running of a marathon. The best place to get up to date info on this event is their Twitter account.

December 16: Funassyiland Web Store 2-year anniversary event at Toho Cinemas, Lalaport Tokyo Bay, Funabashi; at 16:30 and 18:00. Details on the Funassyiland site.

Sometime in January: Furusato Festival at the Tokyo Dome

Live events/appearances by Funagoro and/or Funyassyi

These are appearances by Funagoro and Funyassyi only.　Since there are Funagoro and Funyassyi fans too, I’ve listed all of their appearances here, so some may duplicate the listings above.

Be sure to check the official Funagoro/Funyassyi Funassyiland schedule page here.

November 19: Funassyiland Funabashi - Funyassyi

November 25-26: World Chara Summit in Hanyu (see above) - both Funagoro and Funassyi

December 16-17: Cat City Cat Stage (Neko-shi Neko-za) Kobe KIITO Hall, Gallery A. This is an event for cat lovers. Details here. - Funyassyi only (of course)

TV, Radio, Live Webcasts, Movies, Music

TV: hi-IMAGINE Radio appearance, November 20 and 27 (or late night November 19 and 26), 1:25~ , Nippon TV, Tokyo/Kanto area only or via Nippon TV On Demand (although it’s called Radio, it’s a TV show)

Music: Available now: Spring 2017 Ketsugobou Tour DVD (release date: May 26). 274ch member order page. Also available from CDJapan, Amazon Japan, Funassyiland web store.

Music: Available now: Arukunashi Charamel CD Single (double-A side; on 274ch site also available now from Amazon Japan, CDJapan etc.

Online - Official music video for Charamel (details)  

Online - Official music video for Arukunashi (video link)

Online - Available for viewing now : Untouchable Shibata’s Animal Research Team program in 4 parts on 360.tv (details). Note that Funassyi will also be on the show and/or providing narration for the second season.

Movie: Last Cop The Movie, on Blu-Ray and DVD. Available now (Amazon Japan link to the various editions)

Special shopping events and exhibitions, restaurants etc.

November 2- November 23: Limited period Funassyiland in Sendai at Sendai Loft, 2nd floor (official page)

The Funassyi livery train has been extended until December 31!! Funassyi livery train, Shin Keisei Railway (details; official page on Shin Keisei Railway site).

Now there are Funassyi bus stops! From now until November 30, 5 of the bus stops on the Funabashi Shin Keisei route will be Funassyi-fied.

- December 31 The Misato station has been re-done in a Funassyi theme. In addition, in-station announcements are in Funassyi’s voice. Funassyi livery trains also has Funassyi-voice announcements during this period.

Products of note

At this point many of the new and cool Funassyi products are available exclusively at the Funassyiland stores, with the exception of books, calendars etc. Which is good I guess if you live in Japan, since it’s one-stop shopping, but somewhat inconvenient for overseas Funassyi fans, since Funassyiland does not ship overseas. If you don’t have a cooperative friend in Japan, I recommend using a shopping service.

Available for preorder from the online Funassyiland shop starting November 18: Funassyi Christmas Cakes! Includes a cookie printed with a quote from Funassyi, a chocolate deco pen to write on it, and a mini tote bag. (website)

Grey Parka Service has announced a 120cm tall Funassyi, retailing for 41,000 yen including tax. The first phase has already sold out - the next phase will be available sometime in January.

Available now : Minna de Aemen Funassyi themed noodles from Yamasa

2018 Funassyi Calendar and Planner/Agendas

Official site.  Available now from the Funassyiland online store, physical Funassyiland stores, bookstores nationwide, Amazon, CDJapan, etc.

The 2018 weekly and monthly agenda/planners are also available.

2018 Funassyi Nengajo (New Years cards)

Available from the Japan Post online store - link

Apps, stickers and games

Illustrated Funassyi sticker set for the LINE app - they are adorable! Only available in Japan at the moment unfortunately. (link)

Available now: Funassyi stickers for iMessage (the Messages app), iOS only - but available worldwide! (link to US App Store - check your local App store)

Available now: Taiwan/Chinese version Funassyi LINE stamps (check in your LINE app; not available outside of Taiwan though)

274ch.com

274ch.com, Funassyi’s official streaming video channel/fan club, is the main outlet for Funassyi’s video appearances. Videos are uploaded every couple of days, and are very funny, with Funassyi appearing far more loose and relaxed than he is on broadcast TV. Highlights include a cooking show, Funassyi imitating various Japanese entertainers (his imitation of Beat Takeshi aka Takeshi Kitano is priceless), Funassyi going camping, Funassyi going go-cart racing, and much more. There are also frequent live streams of The Pear doing interviews and so on.

There are also fan-exclusive meets with Funassyi, and fan-exclusive concerts too, such as the upcoming Zetsu Bushaa Tour (see schedule above).

Membership is 600 yen per month or 6,000 yen per year. You can now join from outside of Japan too, although the site is in Japanese only (and so is customer support and so on). Details here. You will most likely need a Japanese mailing address to receive materials from the site for now.

Note: Sometimes someone at the streaming video provider seems to turn on IP checking/blocking of non-Japanese IPs. If you can’t access the videos, just wait a few hours and it will usually get fixed.

274ch official Instagram account

Link here

Last but not least…

I know the updates here have less frequent of late. I have some serious health problems which make it hard to sit at my desk for extended periods - and I find it very hard to update Tumblr via my phone. I will try to update here as regularly as I can, but if you are on Facebook please join the We Love Funassyi group, which is quite active, with many enthusiastic Funatomo. See you there!