| Sakuma Drops Sakuma-shiki Doroppusu サクマ式ドロップス | |||
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| Place of origin | Japan | ||
| Type | Candy | ||
| Ammunition | Real fruit juice hard candy | ||
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| Used by | Japan | ||
| Comments | They are delicious! | ||
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Sakuma Drops, or in Japanese サクマ式ドロップス (Sakuma-shiki Doroppusu), are a hard candy from Japan. They are flavored with real fruit juice and are made by Sakuma Candy Company based in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The candies are not as popular as they were in the past, but they are an easily recognizable icon in Japan as they have been available since the Meiji period. The candies are sold in 4-by-3.5 inch tin cans with a tin pull cap. Sakuma tins are collectible items, as the design frequently changes.
Sakuma Drops are most well known in the 1988 anime film Grave of the Fireflies(火垂るの墓 Hotaru no Haka?), a World War Two movie, as it played a prominent motif in the film. A commemorative tin resembling the one depicted in the film and featuring an image of the character Setsuko has been released several times over the years.
In FHSW you can only find the candy box as Japanese suicide bomber, on maps such as Operation Kikusui Day 2, like the movie they are set in Japan by the end of the war. Sakuma drops as an item have no use but when you "fire" with the box, fireflies come out. In the game files it is called drops_med. Sakuma drops is one of two food items soldier can carry in FHSW, the other being the Cola Bottle.
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