This picture pretty much summarizes everything there is to know about video games in Japan.

In honor of the release of Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon, Square-Enix released a wild chocobo into the streets of Japan as people wearing a t-shirt that I MUST own most likely explained to the crowd not to make any sudden moves lest they lose an appendage to its massive, crushing beak.
The most we can hope for when the game is released here as Chocobo and the Magic Picture Book is a preorder plushie. Don't get me wrong...I love living in the states, but until there is short person in a giant yellow chicken costume on every street corner can we ever truly call ourselves the land of the free?
Chocobos Invade The Streets of Japan For Chocobo DS Launch [GameBrink]



















