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Dec. 11th, 2012 10:43 amDemon-Possessed Singing Trout. (YouTube) Well, demons in the form of low batteries.
And people from countries other than the USA: yes, these singing trout things are a Thing. A not particularly tasteful Thing, but a Thing nonetheless! They were more popular a decade or so back, and there's a fried-fish restaurant we go to occasionally that has the walls covered in these: if you bring yours in and let them "adopt" them, they give you a free basket of fried catfish.
And people from countries other than the USA: yes, these singing trout things are a Thing. A not particularly tasteful Thing, but a Thing nonetheless! They were more popular a decade or so back, and there's a fried-fish restaurant we go to occasionally that has the walls covered in these: if you bring yours in and let them "adopt" them, they give you a free basket of fried catfish.
-- When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his "outdated" thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could enjoy a relaxing bath without the pressure of merchants and roughhousing patrons. Slipping deeper into the warm water, Lucius is suddenly caught in the suction and dragged through the drainage at the bottom of the bath! He emerges coughing and sputtering amid a group of strange-looking foreigners with the most peculiar bathhouse customs...over 1,500 years in the future in modern-day Japan! His contemporaries wanted him to modernize, and so, borrowing the customs of these mysterious bath-loving people, Lucius opens what quickly becomes the most popular new bathhouse in Rome-Thermae Romae!
is coming out in English translation in February! :D