No, this is not going to be a little speech about the vans with loudspeakers that advertising spend doing this or that politician. I am not referring to traffic, it really goes quite unnoticed in Tokyo without the insults and horns as "typical Spanish". No, I mean the men ad or public address systems in shopping streets with shouts trying to attract you as "Kandoo".

I'm talking about these guys ....

... The cicadas, or "semi" in Japanese.

At this time the song of the frogs is replaced by the deafening screech of cicadas. Some early-morning starts to form, but soon begin together forming a reef that you can notice in any of the videos I've posted. It can be quite strange, you're standing in a garden or strolling through a park when suddenly all the cicadas in a few hundred meters of forest are launched simultaneously.

There are about 30 different species of cicada in Japan, and has long been devoted to them songs and poems. The sound of the cicada is used in movies (or drawn in a manga with the onomatopoeia "nim nim nim") allows the viewer to evoke the heat of summer.

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