• Packaging and icons:
  
  Information on what the Wedding Tamagotchi look like, pictures of their packaging, and what kind of care-taking options (or icons) there are.
• Mateable Tamagotchi Diary/Wedding Tam Diary:
  
  My faithful record of the various generations of Mateable Tamagotchi I got, as well as a (hopefully entertaining) journal, with plenty of insights in to Japanese and Canadian culture.
• The Characters of Osuchi and Mesuchi/OsuMesu Characters:
  
  An unauthorized translation of the information that Bandai has/had on its Osuchi and Mesuchi page.
• My Mesuchi Memorial:
  
  My various Mesuchis, listed according adult form, with amusing trivia and details about where they got their names.

Other Stuff

(NOTE: This is "stuff" that didn't fit into any of the other categories, and are listed in a more-or-less random order. Hopefully I will someday be able to reorganize these.)

• When the the baby-chi gets to a certain age, its parents leave so that it can mature on its own.
  
  (Imagine if our parents did that on a regular basis... "Now son/daughter, we're going to leave town for the next couple of years. Here are the house keys, the car keys, and all of our credit cards and cheque books. Now, you behave yourself, you hear?") The parents stay for about 2 days.

• When the Tamagotchi dies or resets, you start all over again from the 1st Generation.

• If you take bad care of the tam, it "sulks and pouts in a corner" (actually, it looks like the bottom half) of the screen.

• You don't have to feed or play with the babies separately, as long as its "parents" are around. The Parents stay for about 2 whole days, and leave their babies at 12:05 am when they babies are 1 years old. The babies will start out the next day with no hearts or discipline, 2 years old and weighing 5 grams.

• The Osuchi always gets custody of the boy-baby-chi. The Mesuchi always gets the girl-baby-chi. Presumably, this is where gender-typing begins in the Tamagotchi World.

• According to the manual, the little melody played after you successfully discpline a tam is not the tam being angry. (For some reason, this really surprised and impressed me.) It is, instead, the sound of the tam "seeing the error of his/her ways" (ah, the wonder and might of Japanese- style child-rearing... by the way, it's okay for me to mock this, since I was brought up by Japanese parents). And if you look at your Osu or Mesu tam, it does seem to cry everytime you scold it properly. However, if you scold for no reason, it just gets mad. Apparently, the "main character" (ie, the character you see on the sticker on the packaging) is called Bunbuchi (male) and Bunkotchi (female). I have no idea what these names mean... possibly something to do with bees or buzzing or swinging things around.

  Oddly enough, my friend's package contained a little pic of all the tama character's saying "thanks!" Under the pic, it noted that thanks to our support, Tamagotchi was celebrating its first year anniversary and its release of 32 different types. (?) I have no idea what that means... if they mean colours released in Japan, or what.

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  If you have any suggestions about Osuchi and Mesuchi (more detail, less detail, go buy a scanner and get real pics d@mmit, etc) e-mail me!

  If you feel that virtual pets really shouldn't mate and stuff, and are deeply disturbed that Bandai created this toy, fine. You have every right to have your own opinions on this. Keep in mind, however, that this toy is for ages 12 and up, and that these are BREEDABLE pets; I believe that saying that this toy is sick is like saying that all the dog and cat breeders in the world are sick. (okay, I'm exaggerating a bit here; feel free to e-mail me and rant.)

  If you feel that I have described the tamagotchis incorrectly, and are deeply disturbed that I still can't tell left from right, I apologize. It's this persistent problem that I have. By left, I generally mean "the side of the tam that is on your left", and by right I mean the other side.

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