Yes, you read that title correctly. Japanese media is known for giving life to inanimate objects, whether its battleships being turned into waifus in Kantai Collection, or famous Japanese swords transformed into handsome young men in Touken Ranbu. While a toilet has yet to be turned into a waifu (as far we know...), the porcelain throne has been given new prominence with the release of the unfortunately named, but actually very interesting, Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun.

Now, Seven Seas Entertainment has acquired the license of manga Dungeon Toilet, in which people are transported off into a fantasy realm to create the "perfect" toilet. Is this the start of an odd new trend?

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Legend of the Urban Toilet

Bathrooms are akin to fortresses: a place of security for the kind of relief where the utmost privacy is paramount. Having that feeling breached by something sinister is the epitome of unparalleled terror. Little wonder, then, that Japan has so many urban legends that exist in bathrooms.

There's the Akaname, or "filth-licker" which, as its name suggests, goes to the filthiest of places and licks them until they are shiny and clean. The Aka-Manto is a figure dressed in a red robe that appears in bathrooms and offers you red or blue paper. Choose red and he'll cut you up until your clothes run crimson with your blood. Choose blue and he'll strangle you until your face goes blue. Hanako-san is the spirit of a young girl who haunts school bathrooms and summoning her is a favorite dare among school children.

With the anime adaptation of Hanako-kun, toilets have been brought more explicitly into mainstream Japanese entertainment, although not in the conventional way you'd expect. While bathrooms have long been the scene for interesting urban legends, there have been few that center around a toilet's true purpose.

Flushed Away to Another World

Dungeon Toilet

Isekai is a popular genre in anime/manga. All manner of wack concepts have been used in the genre, from opening a restaurant to being reborn as a vending machine in another world. But what about being summoned to another world for the glorious opportunity to create the best toilet ever?

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In the world of Dungeon Toilet, people are transported there with the sole purpose of finding the greatest toilet of all time. A throne fit for a king if you will. The concept is something only the wildest of minds could come up with, and it feels oddly refreshing to see such a silly idea be turned into a full-fledged manga and brought to an international audience.

Throne of the Gods

Toilets are a breeding ground for all manner of supernatural nastiness, but now, they are slowly being brought renewed relevance by fantasy manga. The uses for the porcelain throne could vary for each title, like the toilet being an unconventional portal to another world, or something truly out there -- like a toilet gaining sentience, immeasurable power and maybe leading a crusade against the oppressive humans that have abused its kind for far too long. Because... why not?

Only the future can tell what kind of adventures centering around the banal appliance are on the horizon.

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