Daiso is one of Japan's biggest 100-yen shop chains, and carries more useful items than you probably know what to do with. During Halloween season, like most stores, they offer up some spooky-themed sweets and snacks, and one of those is skull-shaped monaka--traditional thin wafers made from rice cakes, that are meant to be decorated with icing, filling, and other treats. Twitter user Gisuke (@gi_kun_cake) found some that caught their eye when recently shopping at Daiso, and while the skeletal design is quite cool, they stood out to Gisuke for a different reason.

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As you can see, all the skull wafers in the front row are cracked. Being in the front row, a lot of people bump into them or perhaps touch them as they inspect them, and despite a plastic protector in the package, monaka wafers are very delicate and easy to break. But Gisuke didn't let those cracks dissuade them, and set out to make use of them in time for Halloween.

The way Gisuke cleverly and artistically used sweets and icing to restore the broken skulls makes them look like an entirely different product!

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Using a variety of other sweets, Gisuke "patched" up the skulls into a delicious work of art, even creating bandages to hold their cracks together. The sweets skull surgery has become a big hit on Twitter, with many admiring the work as proof that nothing really goes to waste, as many customers would have simply passed over the skulls in the first row to grab intact ones in the back. Some even compared it to the Japanese art of Kintsugi, repairing broken pottery.

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Gisuke even turned them into chocolate-egg type Halloween dolls!


By - grape Japan editorial staff.