A Japanese TV show has a Shohei Ohtani puppet and it is amazing
Can’t look away.
A Japanese TV show “announced” a new member of the show this week, as spotted by Twitter user @shoheisaveus. That new character for the show just happened to be an uncomfortably realistic Shohei Ohtani puppet, which is absolutely amazing.
Before we go any further, you should watch the video of this puppet’s participation in the show yourself. It needs to be experienced firsthand, and it’s such a short clip that I promise you will want to rewatch it.
so I'm watching this Japanese tv show and they introduced a new member it's a Shohei Ohtani puppet! it can even hit homeruns! I've never been amazed and creeped out at the same time pic.twitter.com/njfvi9Nlc4
— Shobae Hoetani (@shoheisaveus) July 9, 2018
Now that you’ve seen it, here are the top five things about this puppet that are most unsettling:
- The moving eyebrows.
- The moving lips.
- The way the puppet is holding the bat.
- How close the host holds the ball to the puppet’s face before it hits it.
- The puppet’s unsure look at hitting the ball.
Here are the five best things about this puppet and clip:
- The moving eyebrows.
- The moving lips.
- The way the puppet is holding the bat.
- How close the host holds the ball to the puppet’s face before it hits it.
- The puppet’s unsure look at hitting the ball.
It’s hard to tell what the actual purpose of having an Ohtani puppet on this show is, or if it is going to be a running guest segment rather than a one-off puppet appearance. If anything in this world is good, it will be the latter. We could all use more Ohtani Puppet in our lives.