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Hater lets world know he hates Love Live! by spray-painting over anime manhole covers in Japan
投稿日 2018年6月7日 02:30:05 (ニュース)
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Real-life town where anime’s second arc takes place experiences hateful vandalism.
Regardless of whether or not you’re personally a fan, you’ve got to admire the success of the marketing team behind anime franchise Love Live! By promoting its animated school girl songstresses like real-life idol singers, Love! Live!! has become one of the most popular, and profitable anime of the 21st century.
But just as Love Live!’s idols have achieved popularity rivaling human pop stars, so too are there detractors who are extremely vocal in their dislike of certain characters and sub-groups within the franchise. Not long ago, an anti-fan was spotted dragging a Love Live! plushie on the ground behind his car as he drove, and now come problems with a Love Live! Sunshine!! promotion in the Shizuoka Prefecture town of Numazu, where the anime takes place.
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沼津市議 小澤 隆(りゅう) (@llllnumazullll) June 05, 2018
As a bit of cross-promotion, Numazu has installed manhole covers featuring the Love Live! Sunshine!! girls (because in Japan, even manhole covers are part of the local aesthetic). However, someone has been spray-painting over the artwork, as seen in the above video posted by Numazu city councilman Ryu Ozawa (@llllnumazullll on Twitter).
This wasn’t an isolated incident, either. Ozawa also posted photos of another Love Live! cover that had been similarly defaced.
復帰は難しくないでしょう。 https://t.co/WiXuVadSE0
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沼津市議 小澤 隆(りゅう) (@llllnumazullll) June 05, 2018
It’s one thing to be salty enough about the success of Love Live! to drag a plushie (that you ostensibly bought and paid for) behind your car, but spray-painting manhole covers is straight-up vandalism, and supporters of the series, as well as basic human decency, voiced their hopes that the culprit is apprehended as quickly as possible.
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Oazawa himself went on to say:
もうね・・・己の命の使い方考えろよ・・・。
あんたは自分の命削ってマンホールにスプレーかけるのか。
自分の殻から抜け出さないと、「何かのために」っていう考えにシフトしないと、死ぬまで虚しい人生送るんだよ?
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沼津市議 小澤 隆(りゅう) (@llllnumazullll) June 05, 2018
“Seriously…rethink the way you’re living your life. Do you want to spend it spray-painting over manhole covers? If you don’t snap out of it and start thinking more about having a proper purpose, you’re going to end up living an empty life until the day you die.”
Considering all the effort Numazu has gone to in promoting itself as “the Love Live! Sunshine!! town” (a local car rental agency even has official Love! Live! itasha for rent) and the tourism money that comes in as a result, odds are Ozawa isn’t the only local legislator who’s upset over the vandalism, and hopefully the news out of Numazu will be back to more benign things, like gigantic inflatable anime panties, soon.
Source: Twitter/@llllnumazullll via Jin
Featured image: Twitter/@llllnumazullll
Source: SORA NEWS24
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