Is my house a supermarket? lol

Do you know about Yobikomi-kun?
Yes, that thing that plays music like "po-po-po-po-po" from somewhere in a supermarket, or makes announcements like "How about some roasted sweet potatoes?"!

For some reason, my son—I don't know if he found out about it while searching on YouTube or if he saw it in person at a supermarket and got curious—kept pestering me, saying "I want a Yobikomi-kun," and I eventually gave in and bought it for him online.
It's a commercial product, but I looked it up and found out it's been featured on TV, so apparently quite a few individuals buy them for themselves.

My son is the type who gets intensely focused on something when it becomes a trend, but then suddenly loses interest one day and stops paying any attention to it at all (I just realized while writing this that I have that tendency too, lol), but he really loves Yobikomi-kun. I bought the first unit nine months ago, and he still records things on it, plays music, and watches Yobikomi-kun videos on YouTube all the time.

He also studies it on YouTube and records things like, "Welcome, today we have a special sale on pork," or "The season for roasted sweet potatoes has arrived. How about some roasted sweet potatoes?" with the exact same intonation.
The other day, he seemed to like the movie "Stigmatized Properties" that he watched with his older sister on Netflix, and at night, in the quiet room, he had the Yobikomi-kun on infinite repeat saying "stigmatized property, stigmatized property..." (which he recorded himself).
It was super creepy, lol.

Just having it at home wasn't enough, so he would go to the supermarket by himself just to watch the Yobikomi-kun (that's interfering with business... sweat), I guess he just can't get enough of that repetitive music.

However, at some point, he started chanting, "I want the panel Yobikomi-kun, I want the 'Open for Business' Yobikomi-kun!"
There is a version where the face of the Yobikomi-kun is an LED panel, and it seems he fell in love with the one at the roasted sweet potato wagon at a certain supermarket.
Even when I tell him we already have a Yobikomi-kun at home, once he starts saying something, he won't listen.
I dodged the issue for a while, but I finally reached my limit, so I asked him, "Well, shall we make it your birthday present?" and he replied with logic that a normal person wouldn't understand: "I don't want a present. I just want it." ...lol
Well, he has an income (it's a pension), and he also received birthday money from his grandmothers the other day, and since he can't really spend money himself, we decided to use that money to buy it.

Today, the second unit, the panel Yobikomi-kun, arrived safely.
It arrived just after noon, and he received it with his father, who was working from home, and I got a message reporting that he opened the box looking very happy.
(I've had this half-written for half a month since then... sweat)

My son used to listen to the Don Quijote song at full volume on YouTube all the time (if I warned him, he'd stop it once and then start it again, with no intention of turning the volume down, grrr), but eventually, he was listening to it so much that even I, who didn't want to learn it, could sing along to songs I didn't even know. When I asked him, he said it was "Supermarket Yamanaka." I looked it up and it turned out to be a supermarket in the Tokai region!
He was imitating Yamanaka and decorating it with arrangements in one hand.

After a while, it was a different song. This time it was "Satocho"...?? It was a supermarket in the Tohoku region.
I suppose they are coming up one after another in his search results.
I'm the one who has to listen to it, and I'm sick of it... (bitter laugh)
Please, let me listen to some better music (no offense)!

The trend is fading a little again.
He was playing Minecraft for the first time in a while.
For some reason, the Yobikomi-kun is displayed inside the closet, and he seems to enjoy opening it to look at it.
My closet has been taken over too! Well, if he's having fun playing with it, I guess that's fine.