Or, if you want to be really unique, snow toilets and urinals.
In Japan, the standard snowman design is pretty simple: just two icy spheres stacked up on top of each other. Going to all the trouble of making three balls of snow is seen as the foreign way to do it.
That doesn’t mean that Japanese snow sculptors are lazy, though. They just channel their creative energies into making things other than snowmen. Like snow Pokémon, for example.
ブイだるま作りました#雪だるま pic.twitter.com/1ItBZPDNFi
— 【公式】プロジェクトイーブイ(続) (@project_eevee) January 22, 2018
With heavy snowfall across much of Japan earlier this week, there was plenty of frosty material with which to make a snow Eevee, like the one above. Franchise mascot Pikachu, or course, was also well-represented.
夕方積み上げた雪で早朝に雪守がわりにピカチュウ作ったんだが
— WILD KAZ (@wild_kaz) January 22, 2018
ドーザーが除雪雪載せたらしい( ;∀;)
明るく成ってきたら汚かった#一人雪祭り #雪だるま #雪像 #snow pic.twitter.com/74Sagxo5NS
今日はピカチュウと
— Yb(イッテルビウム) (@y_bbbb_y) January 23, 2018
雪だるまを作りました
ピカチュウはほぼ等身大 pic.twitter.com/cpmZgwUqrx
▼ Bulbasaur may be the least popular original starter Pokémon, but someone still loves him.
https://twitter.com/ayatakadaneda/status/955761199219552256▼ Mimikyu’s fake smile is always a little chilling, but especially so when rendered in ice.
息子が家の前の雪かきやってくれた⛄❄
— 桃 ~ p e a c h ~ 🍑︎︎︎︎︎︎︎ (@peach_ff) January 23, 2018
そして玄関前に謎の雪だるまが鎮座。#ポケモン の #ミミッキュ というキャラらしいです。#雪だるま #雪だるま選手権 pic.twitter.com/9BpAwIkPc2
Moving on to another anime icon, working with frozen slush can make sharp angles hard to reproduce, but that’s no problem when your muse is cuddly Studio Ghibli star Totoro.
作ってみた(*^^*)♪#トトロ #雪だるま #雪かき #雪だるまつくろう #ゆきだるま #雪遊び #となりのトトロ pic.twitter.com/zHufSeJKUG
— Hiroe-beach (@beach_h_) January 24, 2018
▼ Even Totoro looks surprised at how colorful that umbrella is.
昨日はどこを歩いても
— つぶつぶ猫(by kiyochan) (@Kiyochan_Cats) January 23, 2018
雪だるまがありましたが
中でも秀作はこれ
胸の模様も葉っぱで出来ていて
クオリティ高いです。#雪だるま #トトロ #写真 #photo pic.twitter.com/NgCTQhwtSs
▼ Totoro, cosplaying as Ghibli brethren No-Face
カオナシのお面をかぶったトトロとあたまのわるいひと……
— 🫐 シャモジ🫐 (@syamozi___20) January 23, 2018
皆手伝ってくれないから1人で作った#雪だるま #雪だるま選手権 #雪だるまつくろう pic.twitter.com/eywDTjj9LH
▼ Totoros inside another Totoro?!?
怪しい雪だるま作りたかったけれど、
— まめぼん〇ふじいなみえ (@bonbonshippo) January 22, 2018
小学生の通学路なのでトトロにした。
でも朝まで持つかなぁ#雪だるま #トトロ #雪 #腰がヤバイ https://t.co/xpu5nfNg5m pic.twitter.com/yaQsydWGJG
If you gravitate towards more action-packed anime, there’s also this icy recreation of Dragon Ball Z villain Frieza.
フリーザ雪だるま#雪だるま選手権 pic.twitter.com/5BuEUj1fmT
— スタジオカドタ (@himegucci0707) January 23, 2018
And if you need even more edginess, there’s irreverent self-proclaimed “shitty anime” Pop Team Epic’s wide-eyed schoolgirls.
妹「雪だるまつくーろー♪」19歳
— 月桃 遙*@お仕事修羅場に入りました (@haruka_souya) January 22, 2018
私「……分かったょ〜」22歳#クソ雪だるま #ポプテピピック #雪だるま #雪だるまつくろう #ポプ子 pic.twitter.com/xKjWuJEKz6
雪だるま完成しました!!
— さしみ牧場 (@nakagaminakagam) January 22, 2018
クソみたいな出来です!!
(一応モザイクはかけてありますがあまり意味はありません。)#雪だるま#雪だるま選手権#雪像#ポプテピピック pic.twitter.com/bzkFp6zygE
And if that’s still not shitty enough for you, how about a snow toilet?
▼ But…how do you flush?
https://twitter.com/h3x3nt/status/955569411837984769▼ Considering how cold weather makes people have to pee, it’s a brave move building a snow urinal outside your house, since we can’t help but wonder if passersby were tempted to use/melt it.
https://twitter.com/gnnx_/status/955459450902474752Unfortunately, the forecast is for sunshine the rest of the week in Tokyo, but hopefully we’ll get at least one more snow day before spring so that creative fans and inspired sculptors can show off their skills again.
Source: IT Media

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