This is both the most insane and awesome thing I have seen out of Japan recently: the ikemen bank! (The image says “have you been excited recently?”… yes, my Japanese has improved significantly)
“Ikemen” is a slang word meaning handsome man. This product is a piggy bank where the user, presumably female, plays an RPG game with the handsome man software that has been embedded inside. He’ll say things like “I’m hungry!” and then you have to feed him coins. You can’t “win” the game until you’ve put in about $500 in coins. That’s a hefty sum!
If you save well your personal ikemen tells you things like “I love you, baby”. I don’t know if this will create a whole new world of penny pinchers – women obsessed with putting coins in as fast as possible to receive the loving affections of their piggy bank.
Apparently there is also a male version that is a monster killing dungeon RPG. Double awesome.