A small tree planted inside the Kaiyodo Hobby store in Akihabara late last week attracted a good number of tanzaku (prayer cards) from the passing otaku customers.
The various wishes are almost entirely what one would expect given the usual clientele, including the words “My Bride” so often that Kaiyodo might have saved many pens if a pre-inked rubber stamp for those kanji had been provided.
Kaiyodo also did this interesting activity last year, with this one specifically promoting a new line of Revoltech “grown-up” stuffed animals. The normal Tanabata festivities do not begin for some weeks, but few customers likely complained about the discrepancy.
Instead, the the urgent business of claiming wives was attended to:
(From left to right)
“Ranka is my bride! Kira!☆“
“Mio is my bride.”
The right-most tanzaku’s writer apparently decided to have some fun, and someone else decided to join in:
(From left to right)
“Mio is my bride.”
“Don’t screw around!! YOU are my wife!!”
“Takuan is my bride.”
Takuan are pickled radishes, the yellow slabs of which Tsumugi was using for eyebrows and that Yui ate during her dream in the K-ON! finale.
Luckily, the more serious type of tanzaku wishes were predominant:
“I wish that this year Mamiko Noto will come to me dressed in a nurse uniform.”
(Mamiko Noto played Clannad’s Kotomi Ichinose, Haruka Nogizaka, among many other roles.)
“Nana Mizuki is my bride.”
“Minorin is my bride.”
He could either have meant Toradora’s Minori Kushieda, or the seiyuu-singer Minori Chihara, but the first choice seems more likely.
“I wish that Haruhi will come to my house.”
No…wishes are meant to be big – you’re supposed to wish for them to become your bride!
“I wish that I can find a job.”
This person was obviously lost and had entered the wrong store, somehow.
“Economic Recovery. I wish for Nana Inoue to fall hopelessly in love with me.”
This one might have had a rough start, but quickly recovered in good form.
(Nana Inoue is a lesser known seiyuu, with roles in Tsuyokiss and Slap Up Party Arad Senki.)
“I wish that I can make a book and get into Comiket.”
Comiket often gets mentioned at this sort of thing, as seen below:
“I wish that I may become a good-selling ero-manga artist.”
Considering that the artist had but this crowded table to draw on, he did quite a respectable job:
Otaku.
In addition to the last tanzaku, there was another impressive offering that drew attention:
This is of course Nagato’s mysterious tanzaku from the recent Bamboo Rhapsody episode.
Compared to the original…
Incredible! With this level of accuracy, we can only assume he had a reference image handy. If not, then we would be dealing with a Nagato fan of a truly epic scale…
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Hinagiku is my bride
Sawa sensei is my bride.
LIES, you are my bride
GAY!!!!
Ill Gay you up Good God
Gays are spreading here like wlildfire
all because of banning...
all because of the trap pics
you all are my waifu!
including u, yes u, yes the one above me, u are all my wives
if 1 pretty anime character came alive, she's gonna get raped by all these otaku...
And I'll take the honour to be her first. :D
nope, we would flee together and become a love couple on the run.
after i finished raping her.. of course.
Does everyone have to resort to reap
would it not be to your benefit to go slow with a character so as to make them want to stick around afterwards. they would enjoy your company and you might get lucky a second time...
And that's why we listen to Robocop and not O.J. Simpson
fatimmortal your avatar is gross and disgusting. please change it
Which Hinagiku? This: http://myanimelist.net/character/8022/Hinagiku ?
Well Katsura Hinagiku is Mah Bride =D
http://myanimelist.net/character/2270/Hinagiku_Katsura
lol xD nice one
No! Hinagiku is MY bride! :3
Nagi-Ojo-sama is my bride
Second hand? :p
Or is it the other Nagi... Ah well, everyone is second hand -> Nerdraeg for lulz
You are all fucked up, LOLOLOL
no shes mine!
looooool Otakus idiots XD
Artefact is my bride
Nah I would love
RIE KUHIMIYA SAMA is my waifu
Haha, all of those tanzaku are awesome.... =D
So ronery... ^^; LOL
omg the 2 tanzakus (nagato's and that guy's) totally look alike!
either he has a gay memory or he just copied it off his phone or smth o.O
lol nice Freudian slip
HAHA!
Now THIS is something I WOULD DO!
WIN!!
“I wish that I can find a job.”
You do NOT understand ! He wants to find a job to buy lots of goodies :'(
Any way, Yui is my bride *___*
There's A LOT OF Yui lol.
(Yui is very common name in Japan.)
which one you prefer XD?
As for me,I prefer to kogado's one.(Yui Ooki)
"Economic recovery", this isn't a beauty pageant, only really creepy wishes should be accepted in that place.
I never realised Mai waifu was so popular.
This post reminds me of Samurai X tanabata day episode :3
...
So far, it's still my favorite episode...
nagato is my wife
Nagato is my wife! I even create characters based off her in RPGs (Oblivion, Fallout 3, Mass Effect all my mains are Yuki clones >.<.)
Ranka would be a good waifu to have, flat chested and all.<3
Though I enjoy Shinto in it's own and would not treat it in an otaku manner.
uhm, isnt it mamiko noto, not minako? haha just saying.
Maria-san married me.
Yah I was wondering about this as well.
???
Indeed, it is MAMIKO Noto. Quen's power level has greatly decreased for such a mistake. It is now UNDER 9000!
while it is under 9000 it is still 8999.99 so he should be out of the hospital by monday ;).
Thanks for spotting that - but, my "Minako" typo had nothing to do with my power level, it was just an especially big typo, really ^^;
I wish I had life. D:
.. So deep.
damn, sooooo rrrrrrooooooonnnnnnneeeeeeerrrrrryyyyyyy
i am so ronery...
I'm Mr. Lonely,
I have nobody,
To call my oooowwwwnnnn...
“I wish that I may become a good-selling ero-manga artist.”
Godspeed, comrade.
please change 'Minako Noto' to 'Mamiko Noto'.
Yunocchi is my waifu. Good thing no one wrote her name thar.
lol nice pick. I'll take Miyako instead <3
Ai Nonaka is my bride.Some bribe to become their brides.
Miku is my bride.
NO! I think not.
Fine. In that case, Rena is my bride.
Actually, Rena is MY bride. :D
No, she is MY bride!
Easy;
1.) Buy a copy of Vocaloid Miku
2.) Install the program.
3.) Compose a song about you and Miku as a married couple.
4.) Not going to say "???" because it's already overused.
5.) Not going to say "Profit" because I don't find 4chan's meme really that amusing.
You fail at "buy".
LOL!
So what? Torrenting?
Flandre is my bride /o/
Fuga.
He/She may have been refering to Touhou's Flandre. Not Kaibutsu Oujo's android.
ZUN will be my bride! And we will run away to Gensokyo! You should come visit us for tea! ^O^
All of them should say. "I want a real 3d wife if possible"
finding a 3D waifu is eZ if you have no quams about character qualities or appearance. They should read 'i want a GOOD waifu' - thats hard to come bai
Do not want pig disgusting.
Since everyone is doing this..
Horo is my bride....
Over my dead body...
Until then, its mine. Horo isn't 4 sharing.
You don't need to die.. she wouldn't be interested in someone like you.. well i think she wouldn't..
but anyway Horo is mine... if she would have me.
Since nobody wished for them yet, I want to reserve Ilysaviel, Sakura Kinomoto, Tomoyo Daidoji, Vanilla H, Mint Blancmanche, Komugi, Misha, Marron-Sensei, Konata, Sasami, Mayu, Shirayui, Ayu, Patchouli Knowledge, Yuyuko, Suika and Reimu for my harem.
No idea why everyone else is wishing for only ONE...
I wish the poster above me becomes impotent.
I bet you want them for yourself :P
But now that I'm posting again...let's add Skuld to that list as well.
Sasami and Skuld are mine. You can have the others though, already tested . Oh, and add Nagi-sama to your list, you seem to like second hand goods. ^_^
You can have 'em all, I already have Otoha for myself!
Saki can also stay with me whenever she's not with Nodocchi >_<
How greedy. I'll just wish to be abducted (and not eaten) by Yukari then. Any chance one of your wives in Gensokyo would have use of an unpaid servant? ;_;
You people are sick! Why do you place these sorts of wishes in full view of the public? For shame.
My own personal wish would be for my hemorrhoids to clear up.
...Grossberg, is that you?
Lol ashamed of this ? it seems you are not truly into it then if you feel shame in displaying your own interests. Im not saying i would flaunt a C.C. paintjob on my car (actually i would) but to be ashamed of it is...lol why are you here?
I thought the levity and irony was pretty clear in the original (joke) post. That someone would call a public display of love of an anime character disgusting and then talk about their own hemorrhoids in the very next sentence seemed fairly clear to me as being facetious.
Dude, its Akiba.
Hahaha, that's great! I LOL'd at the one replying to the one beside it. XD
The one who is looking for a job is clearly trying to win favors with Milk-chan, right? And the ero-manga hopeful? Hard to tell since it's so small, but I ..sort of like their style :|a
Minako Noto should be Mamiko Noto.
Tsugumi is my bride.
Tsugumi isn't interested in a husband. She wants a bride too.
that's tsumugi. tsugumi is the other one.
Dude hurry and fix minako to mamiko
lol, I wish I was there to post mine too. But seriously, I'm getting insane while reading this article.
I wish I become a main character of a Lovely Happy Nekomimi Maid Kindergarten H game with a Harlem route on.
Granted, you become the old ugly and female owner of the kindergarten.
So, basically a genderswap Shusaku?
I'm surprised it doesn't exist yet.
What's a Harlem route? A New York road map?
Nagato fan....I respect your dedication
second this! awesome nagato fan - wish to be like him/her
“I wish that I may become a good-selling ero-manga artist.”
I already can see your shine. Good Luck~!! :3
Minako Noto?
It should be Mamiko Noto...
Yue-chan is my bride
I wish I could draw ero-manga at all.
Azusa is my bride~
Hands off MY bride!
Respect to the Yuki tanzaku!
Need more Yuki.
XD
Yeah we need more Yuki! I will kill for more Yuki... no seriously I will RAWRRR!
This definetly made my night. 23.02 here, (GMT+2). Please post more like these whenever you find them! (^_^)b
Glad to help - I'll try, whenever I find more.
I made a post here and it still hasn't appeared.:<
Ok ~
*writes his wish*
~ "I wish for Katsura Kotonoha to be my Bride"
(note)
I am leaving this open, as I KNOW, the responses to this will be.. well, varied...
Have fun with your nice boat.
Ndeed..
~ as I am settled warmly, lovingly, tenderly within her bosom, as she holds me ever close to her ~ always letting me know..
That we are finally ....
...alone
Just make sure your cell phone plan covers unlimited texting.
LOL!
Yes, it does.. its unlimited!
"Don’t screw around!! YOU are my wife!!"
lol that guy wins
Lol, as mentioned by Haruhi their wishes will only come true in 16 to 25 years, if not double XD
I wish that all the good anime and manga I recognized were finished and translated.
All the above posters are now my bride.
oh .. good lord.
!!
Kotonoha's not going to be happy about this...
!!!
The heads... will roll. :D
Five bucks says a Sankakuan honeymoon would end with either the police getting called or some sort of horrible sexual mishap/injury.
In either case, the likelyhood of it appearing in an article here seems high.
If someone does this, please tell the news your posting names so we can laugh at you!
i think Takuan is a character in Miyamoto Musashi legend, he was the mentor figure of the titular samurai.
... of course he's also in Musashi GUNdoh, so that wish must be a troll.
I settled for the the edible "Takuan" in the post since its seemed much more likely (to me), but you could of course be right.
Are you kidding? Takuan is badass in any incarnation. Even the one where Musashi was a legendary fishing expert.
It's not a reference to Mugi's eyebrows..? Oh Thank God, I can still have her~~
"Momizi Inubashiri is my bride." <3
how much each put?
“I wish that I can find a job.”
This person was obviously lost and had entered the wrong store, somehow.
lol @ this >_<
Setsuna from Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora is mai waifu
Lol, love the NND style "to the right" comments.
Kallen is my bride~
*claps hands and bows*
Your Mom is my bride.
The whole subber crew?
isayama yomi is my bride!!
O RLY? http://www.sankakucomplex.com/forums/topic.php?id=903#post-20790
Hinagiku is my waifu
Kokonoe Rin is my waifu! Lolis FTW!
lolzerz
Lynette is mai waifu. Good thing no one owned her :3 I guess I should stick with my boyfriend as well :3
Sanshirou-chan is my wife!
I want to become King of Mars!
Belldandy-Sama is my Bride.
Otome Asakura is MY wife!
Sanya V. Litvyak is MY bride!
Minato Nagase is MY not blood-related sister!
Kudryavka Noumi is MY Daughter
hahaha
Silly otakus, they still don't know that Mio is already my bride since quite a long time, as well as CC... Polygamy FTW ! \(^^)/
she was my wife before K-on volume 2 and anime was out, how long is that?
She just doesn't want to break your heart by telling you the truth, isn't she adorable ?
she is sooo adorable is she not
how you feel when you are looking at her
Rei Ayanami is my bride.
weeeee...That nagato tanabata entry was fantastic!!!!
Azusa is my bride. :3
Ranka Lee is a good choice for a waifu. Nice and flat.
Though, I enjoy Shinto on it's own. And wouldn't bring my otaku tendencies into it.
why is gloomy bear on all the cards?
maybe gloomy bear is going to destroy everyones wish.
just like gloomy did to pitty. :O!!!
Aisaka Taiga is my bride.
BLANC -tan become my wife !!!!!!
Nana Mizuki is my bride :3
Anna Tsuchiya is my bride.
Fuko
Nuf said.
mi is my bride and if possible also yui
Nanoha is mine! XD
I'm the 1st to claim too :3
Takamachi Nanoha, i mean :p
Azusa is mai waifu~
No one called dibs on Miku?
Then Miku is my wife! =D
Dark Magician Girl is my bride
Ai is my wife lol.
(Ai=Ai Uemura,a main char. of "Love Game"(a ero-manga by Towa Oshima.))
but multi and Karou is ok too,hard to decide who is the best.
(multi,a android in To Heart. Karou=Saionji Karou,a char in Squeez's eroge.)
Nia is my bride
For reference, Akiba Blog's English version of the first article is up now, though not the Nagato one yet.
http://en.akibablog.net/archives/2009/06/50849905.html
Nagi-sama is my bride... second hand, who cares? (er... I guess some people, but whatever.)
“I wish that I may become a good-selling ero-manga artist.”
This man should make an ero-manga about a ronery otaku who's wish for his favorite anime girl to be his wife comes true.
So nobody has claimed Mugi yet? Cooly~~ Though, if she's going to dump me because of her yuri tendencies, i can still have Alice from Pandora Hearts, one of the coolest yet underrated heroine in this season :3
LOOOOOL this is so funny XD OTaku are funny AHAHAH Those mens ...
"Nana Mizuki is my bride.”
oooo that's my wish too..
"If not, then we would be dealing with a Nagato fan of a truly epic scale…"
Maybe it was Nagato herself
you can't deny alien presence everywhere