About Capybara

Capybaras are the World's largest living rodents. Although they come from South America, they became extremely popular in Japan. Capybaras can be found in zoos where people come to pet them. There's also a toy character Kapibara-san (カピバラさん) created by Banpresto - you can buy almost anything with it in Japan (but in fact only in Japan because they are for sale only there). Capybaras are very calm and relaxed animals, I recommend viewing beautiful films made by fans on youtube. Some people keep them ocassionally as pets e.g. in USA, but personally I think this must be hard to do because Capybara needs water to live (they're semi-aquatic animals). Nonetheless these people seem to be very happy with their unusual pets. If you're looking for more information on Capybaras, please visit wikipedia or try some of my links below.
Showing posts with label カピバラさん. Show all posts
Showing posts with label カピバラさん. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2012

Capy Valentine's Day!

Here are my hand-made Valentine's Day cupcakes with kapibara-san and android. I've been preparing them with my friend Anne the whole day for my Sweetheart (^t ^ \. This is just a part of our work, the rest of the cakes was made for Anne's boyfriend and mom. We really baked a lot of them and I had a wonderful day at kitchen. I'm not good at making sweets but with Anne's help I could offer something special to my Valentine ;-) I'm very happy. The green cream and decorations were made by me, but recipe is not mine, we prepared it together. Enjoy the photos and belive me - they taste as good as they look!

Kapibara-san & White-san

All cupcakes together - for more information on kapibara -san & android see my older post

They came in a special container with android sticker ;-)))

Capy Valentine's Day!<3

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Special B-Day party!

It's been another time I'm celebrating B-day with my bf (who was born on the same day) and this year we had a very special B-day cake. Since we're both fans of kapibara-san we decided to have a kapibara-san cake. I know this sounds funny, but I found a confectionery which made it for us. The problem was that people here don't know what kapibara-san is, so we were asked to bring one of our plushies. In the end we decided to bring only some photos of kapi and as you can see below it was enough to make a good looking kapi-cake ;-))) It was so delicious and our guests had so much fun at the party. We had one special guest this year. On our birthday before the party my bf had a meeting and one of his friends brought him back home. We asked him to stay. He liked the whole idea of our cake even though he didn't know kapibara-san before. But the best thing about our special guest is that he had a camera and we could make photos of the cake. There were some problems with our camera so he saved the situation ;-) we're very thankful for that!

Presentation of the cake to our guests

With kapibara-san so that you can compare

Make a wish!

The inner part of kapi - cake mmmm.. so delicious!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Capybara planking.

Capybara planking. by caseorganic
Capybara planking., a photo by caseorganic on Flickr.

According to Wikipedia, "Planking" (or the "Lying Down Game") is an activity consisting of lying face down in an unusual or incongruous location. The hands must touch the sides of the body and having a photograph of the participant taken and posted on the Internet is an integral part of the game. Here we have an example of planking with kapibarasan. I haven't heard of a game like this before, cool photo though.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Capybara room game

Capybara Room
Capybara Room

Today I tried to find some games connected with capybara, and I found this. I'm still trying to complete the first room (maybe there are more rooms...?) because everything is written in japanease and I can't get any hints. In this game you can find some kapibara-san-like stuff ;-) I recommend it for a short break from work.


PS: You need to click on _very specific_ areas of furniture or other stuff. Don't give up. If you get stuck then you can check these hints in comments. Most of the players do not recognize kapibara-san and they just call it 'a hamster' ;-)

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Hey Kapibara-san!



Kapibara-san (カピバラさん) seems to be quite a recognizable character in Japan. You can see positive reactions of people in the streets here. I wish I would meet the big Kapibara-san next time.



The so-called 'kapi tower'as seen in the video ;-) was not invented by the creators of Kapibara-san - I found some evidence showing that real capybaras sometimes make small kapi-towers. And believe me,this has nothing to do with procreation!

Friday, May 27, 2011

Kapibara-san meets Android!



Hello again! Today I have something special for Kapibara and Android fans. Enjoy!



Looks like they made friends with each other.



Photos made using Motorola Xoom

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