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Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Not only Japanese culture is absolutely nothing like we have in the West, but their creativity concerning pastimes and DIY projects might also look quite strange to us. This time the Japanese came up with an idea to turn boring aluminum foil into something beautiful. The tin foil itself is surely nothing exciting – It is used for packaging, insulation, cooking… and making really shiny aluminum foil balls that appear to have no real purpose, apparently. That’s right, thanks to a Japanese jeweler, the whole country became obsessed with refining these metal leaves to perfectly shiny tin foil balls, and we aren’t sure how to react.

According to Twitter user @puchuco709, they took a whole 16-meter (52-feet) long roll of the federal government brainwashing-blocking material and started abusing it – hammering, polishing it. After probably a gazillion repeats, the tin foil ball was finished. People instantly fell in love with this low-budget DIY foil ball project, flooding Japanese social media with their very own versions. Can you think of a use for these Japanese foil balls? Let us know in the comments!

It all starts with an aluminum foil ball like this one:

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

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Then, with incredible amounts of determination…

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

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Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Image credits: sekaiminzoku

…lots and lots of repeating the same tedious task…

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Image credits: skytomo

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

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…and hours of polishing to perfection…

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Image credits: skytomo

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Image credits: sekaiminzoku

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Image credits: skytomo

It turns into something like this!

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Image credits: sekaiminzoku

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Image credits: skytomo

People instantly fell in love with this low-budget DIY project

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Image credits: skytomo

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Image credits: sekaiminzoku

Flooding Japanese social media with their very own versions

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Image credits: sekaiminzoku

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Image credits: puchuco709

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Here’s what people had to say about the trend:

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Japanese Are Polishing Foil Balls To Perfection, And The Result Is Too Satisfying

Rokas Laurinavičius

Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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