WEIRD Japanese STATIONERY you've never seen before

I grew up watching my classmates bringing these fancy and expensive pencil boxes...it's soo nostalgic...although I never got the opportunity to own one, but realising how far I made without having those is such a good feeling..although the eight year old me would have done anything to get one of those things...even now I love cool stationeries like those aesthetic and vintage stickers or washi tapes but my parents think they are a waste of 💰 soo I diy them 🤗

In the 80s in Greece, we had a plethora of Japanese imported toys and stationery. Essentially, many of us grew up surrounded by Japanese products, often without realizing the extent of our exposure to them.

I had some pencil cases like these when young, although not with these exact designs of course. I loved playing with it and just opening all the different compartments. A sort of fidget toy before that concept even existed for sure.

i loved these pencil cases growing up in the 2010s! the good quality ones with multiple features (like the first red hk case in the video) were a bit pricey but the basic ones were just as cute! such fun times fr

How crazy is that I remember having these kind if pencil boxes as a child in the 80's and they were rather easy to find in Spain's stationary shops. Literally most of my classmates had one.

I love them. We still have similar in the U.K. I grew up with pencil cases like these. I know showing my age. 😂❤❤❤❤❤

As someone who grew up loving stationary (and still do!) I absolutely love this video! Its so interesting to see the different cases and different compartments. Thank you for showing us these cases because I'm not sure if i would ever see cases like these had you not shown it. :)

I love that house one, i've never seen anything like it before! Personally, as an artist with no space for a decent table, I like the black one, it would be perfect for my tiny art table and it's multi-functional. I had a similar pencil case as the first one with the dail. I got it at Disneyland Paris back in the 90's and there were buttons for each compartment and a magnetic lid. I spent more time launching a large compartment for protractors/extra pencils than I did actually using it as a pencil case.

how did I end up here ?

I'm Aussie and I had a couple of similar pencil cases to the 3rd one in the mid 80's. They were somewhat popular at the time.

I actually have a few of these, also vintage. We have a lot of people who are of Asian descent living here in WA state (specifically around Seattle) so a lot of things from overseas countries can end up in our thrift stores. That's how I got mine. They're so cute and I wish we had them in America...useful and adorable lol. Mine are pretty basic when compared to the Hello Kitty or the Magical House ones you have. I think my favorite is between those two...they're both awesome.

😲 I love these so much!!! I had a boring pencil box growing up. They had no compartments and you just tossed everything inside of it and went about business. The Magical House one is so unique and cute! Reminds me of Polly Pocket. I would have loved having it as a kid! Heck... I would love having it now! 😂

OMG! As an 80's kid, I had one of those pencil cases!!! You brought so many nice and cozy memories from watching this video. Thanks! 💓

I always loved these pencil cases that have compartments and pop-out mechanisms. Very nostalgic..brings back memories growing up

I was in school in the 70s and 80s. In the US these kinds of pencil cases were not common. We were encouraged to bring a cigar box from home that we could decorate. Cigar boxes were so uncommon that stores that sold school supplies had them, and they were made for pencils and erasers, never had cigars in them! I think the tray in the first box you showed was meant only as a flat surface to write on, not storage. My favorite was the dollhouse one.😊

I actually had pencil cases similar to those. The more pop ups or doors you had on your case, the more you felt superior. That was then

As someone who grew up in the 80s/90s and since childhood has loved stationery, still does, and I’m still collecting, I missed these! I had some as a child in Puerto Rico and there were also so many reproductions made with different front covers. I traveled to SKorea for a few months, visited Japan and got some cute stationery. This is all to say that on my way back I had a layover in Shanghai and I bought some of those at the airport to s]give to my friend’s kids. I wished I kept one for myself. 😅 Also, I had a couple and one was very similar to that first red Hello Kitty one s]you showed; it just didn’t have the dial, it was all buttons and pulls and I think (it’s been a minute😅) it look like a bus.

I got so much nostalgia from watching this! In the 90s, I had 3 pencil cases with similar features, and 2 of them had the buttons to open up different compartments, but the feature I loved the most was the ability to set the date with wheels on one of them. I ended up giving them to my niece, but very reluctantly!

Thank you for doing this video. It does bring back memories over 20 years ago when I had one of these (not exact one). It meant a lot to me when my family got for me. Till this day I am so into these cute and useful supplies in life. My fav is the Hello Kitty and Sweet Home.

I remember girls in my class having similar pencil cases back in elementary school, probably from Taiwan or Japan, since the most stuff back then were made in those countries. This September, when i was out to buy some stationery for my 7 years old niece, i saw some similar pencil cases after all these years, in a big store which sells mostly stuff from China, and i felt nostalgia.