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Sailor Moon uniforms and theme music wins Uzbekistan gymnasts new fans at Tokyo Olympics
投稿日 2021年8月10日 00:00:45 (ニュース)
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”Moonlight Densetsu” plays while rhythmic gymnastics team performs dressed as anime’s most famous magical girl.
Rhythmic gymnastics is one of those athletic fields that doesn’t get a lot of coverage outside the Olympics. Sure, there’s an undeniable athleticism and artistry to the sport, but the average TV viewer might be confused when a gymnastics floor routine has such unfamiliar apparatuses as balls, a hoop, and bowling pin-like clubs literally tossed into it.
But when the Uzbekistani team took the floor at the Tokyo Olympics there was something instantly familiar even to those who’d never watched rhythmic gymnastics before, as long as they’d watched anime.
▼ The Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnastics team pictured, at top left.
#新体操 団体予選
美しい演技に加え、華やかな衣装にも注目です
開催国・日本の文化に合わせた衣装も#Tokyo2020 #オリンピック pic.twitter.com/SdAEmY90eg— オリンピック (@gorin) August 7, 2021
The design and color pattern of the team’s uniforms immediately bring to mind Japanese animation’s most famous magical girl, Sailor Moon. This wasn’t a coincidence or inspiration from a generic sailor suit/school uniform, either, as the team performed to an instrumental version of “Moonlight Densetsu”/”Moonlight Legend,” the iconic original opening theme to the Sailor Moon TV anime.
これ観客いたら死ぬほど盛り上がっただろうな
セーラームーン見てた世代だからめっちゃ嬉しい#ムーンライト伝説 #ウズベキスタン #新体操 #新体操団体 pic.twitter.com/wxgpbFxzThSponsored Link
— なな (@_kcyuta) August 7, 2021
ウズベキスタン代表の新体操。
セーラームーン、
ムーンライト伝説の可愛さよ。 pic.twitter.com/TAaFdMjran— 「DIGGIN'」 (@DIGGIN_EVERYDAY) August 7, 2021
Japan is always happy when overseas visitors show an active interest in its culture, and the choice of attire and musical accompaniment prompted comments online including:
“I’m so happy that they dressed as Sailor Moon! They showed so much love for Japan.”
“I want to tell them thank-you from the bottom of my heart.”
“As a Sailor Moon fan, I got so pumped up watching their routine!”
“Seeing them adopt a part of Japanese culture like this makes me so happy. I hope someone will tell them how grateful we are.”
▼ If the rules didn’t require team members’ uniforms to match, they could have color-coordinated as the Inner Sailor Senshi.
新体操団体、
ウズベキスタンがおもいっきりセーラームーン軍団で、セーラームーンの曲も使用して、さらに中継でも「セーラームーン」と明言していてなかなか圧巻でした。#Tokyo2020#セーラームーン pic.twitter.com/IK5gvciYBP— マライ・メントライン@職業はドイツ人 (@marei_de_pon) August 7, 2021
Following their ball routine on the first day of the competition, the Uzbekistani team was in fifth place, but they slipping in the standings on Day 2 when working with hoops and clubs, eventually finishing in ninth. But while they didn’t pick up a medal in Tokyo, they did pick up plenty of new fans in what’s turned out to be the most musically anime-inspired Olympics ever.
Sources: Sponichi Annex via Livedoor News via Hachima Kiko, Twitter, Twitter/@gorin , Instagram/gorin
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