Cat Hats Fruit Style: Japanese Gacha Machines

Gachapon game machines are all over Japans city shopping districts. Americans may better recognize and relate these to gumball machines. With gumball machines users put in a quarter, crank it, and then a gum ball clunks to the bottom and bam they've got chewy flavor that keeps giving for about two minutes.


The Japanese Gachapon game machines are far more sophisticated than gumball machines. Instead of gum users get little toy prizes, and not the cheep kind either. Well-made figurines, key chains, and tinkery toys amongst many other prizes are offered.
Like with gumball machines there are several prize options and it is always a surprise as to which one you'll end up with.

Prices can range between 100 yen and 500 yen, which is the basic equivalent of $1 to $5 said an article in All About Japan. 

Youtubers and husband and wife, Rachel and June from the channel Rachel and Jun and their other channel Rachel & Jun's Adventures! decided to take a gander at the newest generation of cat gacha machines. 

Since every cats dream is to, obviously, mimic popular fruit varieties, one cat gacha builder thought, "why not make fruit themed hats a cat gacha prize?"
Ingenious. 

The cat gacha machines offer several fruit varieties for cats to mimic, from apple cat hats to strawberry and watermelon for example.

Rachel was most obsessed with getting the banana, and rightly so, it would end up becoming the favorite of the cat hats. Or at least the most well tolerated. 


This is probably because of the ear mobility the banana hat allowed. Animals don't like having any of their senses, such as hearing, suppressed. 

  While gachapon machines offer cheaply priced, very well-made prizes, if users become obsessed with getting one specific prize they  end up spending a lot more money. With each cat gacha costing about 3 dollars and Rachel's success in getting the banana hat landing on the 7th try, she ended up spending about $21 and with more hats then she really needed for her three cats. She definitely took a trip down the dark gachapon hole, but was it was worth it.

Rachel and Junes cats, against all hope, did not end up being at all ecstatic about their new fruit identities. They soon weaseled their way out of most of the hats they tried on, but not before Rachel and Jun got a ton of cute shots of them. 

Watch their video here if you want to see more adorable, irritated cats in fruit hats. 
And click here to see another video they made recently showing some of the differences between Japanese and American cat care. Did you know it is not only the Japanese that live longer, but their cats too?

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