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Anime crime alert – One-of-a-kind anime banner stolen from 72-year-old Tokyo public bath
投稿日 2021年9月15日 11:00:32 (ニュース)
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Owners don’t think the Kageki Shojo noren thief was a fan, though.
Times are tough for Japan’s sento, or public baths. Formerly a necessity for suburban and urban residential communities, they’ve been rendered largely unnecessary now that just about every single house and apartment in Japan has its own private shower and bathtub.
So if people don’t have to go to sento, operators have to offer something that makes people want to go to them. One of public bath Daikokuyu’s plans to draw customers to its facility in Tokyo’s Oshiage neighborhood was to partner with popular anime/manga series Kageki Shojo. Since last April, Daikokuyu, which opened in 1949, has been offering special Kageki Shojo merchandise, displaying autograph boards from the anime’s voice actresses, and hanging a noren cloth decorated with illustrations of the main characters in its entryway.
▼ Daikokuyu
【悲報】
現在コラボ中「かげきしょうじょ!」本日深夜に暖簾が盗まれてしまいました。
棒ごとないです、、、。
9月末までコラボ期間なのに
暖簾、、返して下さい、、 pic.twitter.com/eIxyk2EFOX— 押上温泉 大黒湯/東京墨田区銭湯 (@daikoku_yu) September 13, 2021
The promotion has been a success, according to Takuya Shinbo, Daikokuyu’s third-generation owner, who says it’s helped bring in more young customers, many of whom snap commemorative photos in front of the noren, which was a custom-made, one-of-a-kind item. Unfortunately, in the early morning hours of September 13, someone stole it.
Daikokuyu is open through the night, and as shown in the above video, at roughly 2:30 a.m. on Monday a customer who was leaving after taking his bath decided to take the banner home with him. Though the thief can be seen in the security videos, the staff didn’t recognize him, as he’s not a regular customer.
The man is estimated to be in his 60s, but the staff doesn’t think he’s an anime otaku who wants the banner for his personal use. While he was in the lobby he paid no attention to the autographs from the Kageki Shojo voice actresses, which should have been of interest to a real fan of the series, and so Daikokuyu thinks he probably stole the noren with the intention of reselling it to make a quick buck.
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▼ A photo of the noren, taken less than an hour before it was stolen
酷い
私が夜中伺った際はありましたよ
13日(月)1:44に撮った写真です。 pic.twitter.com/bVCRwFkXM1— VIVAKICH (@sunuo_1010) September 13, 2021
That might turn out to be easier said than done, however. As mentioned above, the noren was specially made for Daikokuyu, and since the public bath only has one entrance, they only made one. That means that if any prospective buyer sees the Kageki Shojo noren pop up for sale on an auction site, or if the thief tries to sell it off to a second-hand anime specialty store, the potential buyer should be able to tell right away that it’s stolen property.
For the time being, Daikokyu has made a replacement Kageki Shojo noren featuring much smaller, less dynamic character artwork, which can be seen in the tweet below.
今日は定休日です。
かげきしょうじょ!さんの許可を頂き、手作りの新しいのれん作ったので、明日からこちらでお迎えさせて頂きます
もし戻ってきたら、本来の暖簾に差し替えたいと思います pic.twitter.com/FiRGzIyU7Z— 押上温泉 大黒湯/東京墨田区銭湯 (@daikoku_yu) September 14, 2021
However, they still want the original Kageki Shojo banner back. “Please return the noren,” the sento’s official Twitter account has requested, showing an impressive level of politeness, and hopefully things turn out as happily as they did the last time someone stole some anime-related items from a public bathing facility in Japan.
Related: Daikokuyu official website
Sources: Twitter/@daikoku_yu via Golden Times, NHK News Web
Top image: Daikokuyu
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