Let's see... what will Japan do with robotic tentacles....

I dunno... I have this suspicion the reveal is going to involve tentacles.

Those aren't tentacles, they're GENTACLES!!!! It's trying to mate with us! (and it didn't even buy me dinner!)

From teh Interwebs in case you're thinking the octopus is being abused:

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A giant male octopus caught on cell phone video scaling his glass display tank at the Seattle Aquarium and reaching several tentacles over its open top has sparked Internet speculation that the massive mollusk was trying to mount an escape bid.

But aquarium officials say the octopus, named Ink, was not attempting a jailbreak in the video, which has gone viral on the Internet, but simply learning to embrace his new home with all eight arms.

"It was not an escape attempt," aquarium spokesman Tim Kuniholm said of the video, in which Ink inched his way up the cylindrical glass tank to squeals from onlookers. "It's a new exhibit and the animal was exploring his boundaries."

A Seattle aquarium employee later put Ink's arms back inside the case, and a so-called "evening cap" was fastened on top to help keep the curious fellow in place, Kuniholm said.

"Octopuses are very inquisitive by nature, and in this case ... Ink is an overachiever," he said.

Ink is one of two new giant Pacific octopuses on display at the aquarium. Found in Puget Sound, they are the world's largest species of octopuses, weighing on average about 90 pounds (41 kg) and measuring 20 feet (6.1 meters) across.

Kuniholm said the two male octopuses are kept in separate homes at the aquarium because the species is solitary by nature, with males and females coming together only to mate during their short 3-to-4-year lifespan.

In the next year, Ink will be released back into the wild as part of an ongoing education and conservation program for the species, the aquarium said.

(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Sandra Maler)

"Hey kid, pull my tentacle..."

I agree with Yogi. This is actually the US's fault. When Japan started trading with the Western powers (starting with the US), a lot of what was previously thought of as perfectly normal to talk about (like sex) was instead turned into taboo. That is why they have tentacle porn, because penises were censored due to Western Christian influences, so they had to use something to depict penetration.

I've known rabbits to gnaw through inch thick branches. So... I wouldn't be inclined to pour a bunch of rabbit food on my crotch and just let them have at it.

I guess unless you're into that kind of thing. Maybe it's like that tentacle stuff.

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Can't really be Japanese there wasn't a single tentacle anywhere.
Also, the soundtrack should be Weird Al Yankovic's 'Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch'.

I'll upvote anything with tentacles.

Seems to me a good rape deterrent would be tentacles that slither out from the legbands or waistband when someone attempts to remove the garment in an improper fashion. It would definitely scare the bejeezus out of most people and on the upside I'm sure such an innovation would be a popular selling point in Japan for all the wrong reasons.

Amazing how clear it was that her only instructions going into this must have boiled down to attacking the muslim author for his book that their other squawking corporate tentacles were already drumming up false outrage about.

I'm just positive this was a talking point on several right wing radio programs, magazine, news papers and their other various apparatus.

I wonder if she's just doing her job, or if she actually doesn't realize that she displayed a complete lack of understanding of what scholars do or how books are even written.

So no one should write about the Vikings unless they believe in Odin?

That was a ten minute interrogation about a scholar's background instead of the book they wrote.

I mean, you can't even call that transparent, it's too clear to even pretend it's filtered by a pane of glass.

MY EARS! I'm going to hell because of you, she devil! GAH! I practiced celibacy and was home schooled to avoid any auditory temptations but now I'm ruined. Raped. Ear RAPED. Fucked in the ears.

And now I have no choice but to become the beast I always feared. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK ME JESUS

Souls! Feed me souls! BLlaefoiugrbsrgbsgrubs -- and now I transform into my final form to destroy the sanctity of life and shatter the world. Laying siege to all holy lands! Nothing is sacred, all life is to be extinguished, and suffering will be endless. ENDLESS!!!!!

Millions, billions, trillions, untold time passes; dimensions crossed, the very meaning of ALL unraveled and laid forth, meaningless. Meaningless! All conflict, all freedoms, all philosophy is now folly; unnecessary as a multiuniversal nihilism cascades across the boundaries of consciousness. The godheads destroyed, their corpses rotting the core beyond ALL.

Blackness.

Void.

Nirvana crumbles and the enlightened turned against the balance. Yahweh screams in horror, corrupted and turned into a tentacle demon to rape its devoted followers. Ra's phallus goes limp. Baal is ground into an all beef hamburger patty. Shiva, Vishnu, Devi, Surya and Ganesha warp into a single form, becoming the Eye of Saron. The reptilians of earth devolve into alligators, and the greys become monkeys.

There is no shelter because there is only horror. For all eternity, in all realities.

Sorry, that's just my interpretation of the reporter's reaction.

She can't be asian, there are no tentacles in the video.