When you hear "taiyaki", most people think of something like this.

General Taiyaki (Source: Wikipedia)
General Taiyaki (Source: Wikipedia)

But for some generations, the ideal form of taiyaki is this.

Go! Taiyaki-kun (Source: Tokyo Taiyaki)
Go! Taiyaki-kun (Source: Tokyo Taiyaki)

The restaurant where you can eat this dream taiyaki is "Tokyo Taiyaki". The other day, it just opened a store in Tokyo Sky Tree Town.

For our generation, it's possible to think "Taiyaki must be like this!" Because that's right? In the music video of "Otage! Taiyaki-kun" sung by Masato Shimon, it's not fun at all even if ordinary Taiyaki swims. After all, Taiyaki must be crawl and swim.

"Otage! Taiyaki-kun" Taiyaki sold by Tokyo Taiyaki The crawl is wonderful!
"Otage! Taiyaki-kun" Taiyaki sold by Tokyo Taiyaki The crawl is wonderful!

However, when I was watching the video of "Otase! Taiyaki-kun", I had one question. "What's happening behind you, Taiyaki?"

The day has finally come to unravel the mystery! If you look at the back side of Tokyo Taiyaki's "Otase! Taiyaki-kun" Taiyaki, you can see that!

So I turned it over.

The back side was like this.


As you can see, there are no eyes on the back side. So it's not pretty. It's only natural that there is a second one on the front side.

Hmmm, but the fact that there are two eyes on one side and not on the other side is not a sea bream, but a flatfish? Is this actually grilled flatfish? ?? That's no good. It's kind of like an izakaya menu. ...... Well, it's good because it's delicious.

This is the Ikebukuro Echika store of Tokyo Taiyaki, which sells "Otage! Taiyaki-kun" Taiyaki. In addition to the standard Ogura bean paste, there are soy milk cream, custard cream, sweet potato bean paste, apple bean paste, and Shiratama Ogura bean paste.