I was at the mall near here today and I saw his DS game that comes with a stylus made to look like a calligraphy brush. I’d seen it on the shelves for a while, but hadn’t remember to take a picture till now XD I looked it up on amazon.jp if you wanna take a look. As far as I can tell it’s to teach proper brush strokes for kanji characters. While to us westerners it may not seem that the order in which you write Japanese characters would matter, it is important because that is how they are written. Once you get to know hiragana and katakana you actually become aware when the strokes weren’t done in the proper way, and kanji can be a killer cause some have many many strokes. Plus because there are many similar looking characters the direction a stroke starts from can change what the character is.

pic from Amazon