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Tamagotchi’s History Featured on Asahi TV’s ‘I want to know about Osamu Hayashi now!’

We love a little history lesson! On February 15th, 2024 there was a segment about the history of Tamagotchi on the television program ‘I want to know about Osamu Hayashi now!’ Which is a television program featuring Osamu Hayashi the most famous juku school teacher in Japan, known for his iconic phrase ”Ima desho" ("Why not now?").

source: grief_and_green on Twitter

The segment covers the Tamagotchi Original launch back in 1996 & 1997. They really focus on the popularity overseas in the United States and we got to see the line at FAO Schwarz, a toy store formerly in Manhattan, New York on fifth avenue, which is now located at Rockefeller Plaza. How have we never seen this picture before?

source: grief_and_green on Twitter

Osamu Hayashi also mentions that Tamagotchi is still popular today, quoting that sales from January to September 2023 were approximately 2.22 million units worldwide. With new models being released after one another, and spotlighting ht new Tamagotchi Uni’s Wi-Fi capabilities.

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Tamagotchi Featured on Osamu Hayashi’s Nippon Drill

Osamu Hayashi’s Nippon Drill is a variety show in Japan where Osamu Hayashi, the main MC serves a the class teacher and Nobu of comedian duo Chidori is the assistant teacher. Tamagotchi was recently featured on an espied and it caught Tamagotchi fans attention! Chisae1973 on Twitter was able to catch this episode and post some pictures.

The episode featured toys that were popular in the past, so how could they not feature Tamagotchi? We’re told the featured spot was thorough and covered many generations of Tamagotchi, including the original, and even more recent color releases.