Spring Has Come – Haru-chan Returns in NHK Weather Moe!
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 13, 2010 11:38 JST
- Tags: Anthropomorphisation, Bizarre, Image Gallery, Marketing, Moe, NHK, TV
Japan’s budgetarily challenged public broadcaster NHK has taken to providing moe anthropomorphisations of the seasons in its weather reports, the star of the show being the lovely Haru-chan (Spring-chan), who can be seen in a variety of curious illustrations on national TV once again with the onset of spring…
Lest anyone doubt these images, she is completely official and even has her own informative homepage complete with meteorological manga.
Haru-chan in stormy mood:
Evil Haru-chan harrows the land with a spring tempest:
Hay-fever countermeasures:
General Winter is getting ahead of himself:
“Moe” in a very literal sense.
Other seasons also receive personifications: Konatsu (Little Summer), Aki-chan (Autumn), Tsuyu-kun (Rainy Season), and of course cold-hearted Fuyu-shogun (General Winter) and his fiery summer counterpart. They each have the character for their season etched onto their foreheads in case things aren’t obvious enough.
Naturally there are plenty of unofficial renditions:
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Broadcaster: There will be a violent hurricane tomorrow morning! I repeat; there will be..
Audiences: So Moe... NGHHH...
In pic number 1 that looks like Kyon's little sister.
Haru-chan is the reason for the season.
More proof the Japanese can't handle serious material without it being brought down to the level of a child by making it extra moe and chibi.
Well the reason for this is that Japan has FOUR SEASONS.
This was actually more awesome than i thought
If this keeps on, I see an anime coming
Holy shit, if weather news were like that here, I'd watch them every day, hell, I'd TAPE them!
I'd memorize forecasts and look up stuff about weather, and people would be impressed about my knowledge and usefulness. But secretly, it'd be all thanks to moe! mwhahahaha!
http://img1.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-iv/haru-chan-nhk-weather-report-moe-seasons-028.jpg
For some reason, this General Winter reminds me of the Lich King from Warcraft.
BTW, we see Little Summer, but where's her sister Summer proper? Would she look like an elegant ane-san in a short-sleeved one-piece dress?
Seriously Japan Seriously...
haru-chan movie @ youtube
ttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E6%98%A5%E3%81%A1%E3%82%83%E3%82%93&search=tag
LOLWut
Is Spring-chan greek?
I wonder what aliens must think of this.
its a conspiracy!
Why is there a censorship "can't-show-this" black circle around the tip of the weathercaster guy's pointing stick?! Is the tip penis-shaped or something?
....I think I might like watching the weather now...
Where's duckface?
In just a few more short decades, there wouldn't even be any reason to take over Japan anymore; the people there will all have died of being worthless virgins.
why is he hitting her!?
>.>
<.<
It's a CONSPIRACY! D:
This is why Japan is superior. Also, that last pic is pure genius.
Wow! That is soooo coool!!
It looks like it would be fun to work for that weather station...
KAWAII~~ >_< XDDDDDDD
kawaii means cute
Really thanks for informing us, Master of the Obvious.
Welcome to the NHK...
Inbo da...
It's a good thing you explained that for us. Your target audience has no interest in or knowledge of anything Japanese, after all.
Anon is actually making a reference to this image [http://kielmaru07.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/1259829153228.jpg]. It's not a meme so people can't know about it or get the joke.
If I hadn't seen it before my reaction would probably be the same as null's.
25 26 and 27 made me lol
Is it a weather channel aimed at kids ?
:/
now if only the news was that interesting
I still prefer Lily :3
Yeah, would be better if they used Touhou characters instead.
Lily for spring
Yuuka for summer
Aki sisters for autumn
Letty for winter
Moe all year around.
Actually, my first thought when I saw this report was "SPRING IS HERE~!"
That said, this newscast needs more danmaku.
Only japan would make me watch the weather without getting bored...
We so need HNK-ON as a full blown anime. Weather Moe vs Moe blobbery.
Please don't say you are lazy, because there's a full week of sunny weather ahead.
datte hontou wa crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
All I could think while looking through the pictures was Haru-chan going, "Take it easy!"
ゆっくりはるなってね！！！
Pic #07 scares me 3:
Fuyu looks GAR
I still think that Fuyu-shogun should be Mizore-chan instead.
Lol, it'd be pretty weird if they use a moe character to represent a really huge typhoon, people might underestimate it...
"I hear there's a huge typhoon coming!"
"Hahah, yeah, it's so cute!"
How's this instead:
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/7152/d7011a7e0dfb74f1c800912.jpg
now nhk need to do is to have anime character to be tv news presenter.
What do you mean "some"? Aren't all Japanese Otaku?
I think I read some genetic study where they found the gene for otaku-ness is especially strong in Japan.
At first I was like what the hack?
Than I was like holy fucking shit, what the bloody hell is this?
If that happens, (presumably I live in Japan) I wouldn't mind dying in the storm now...
If I die, I'll blame haru-chan and bring her to hell with me...~kawaiiii
Japan is so cute, no wonder why some Japanese became otaku...
... Is it alright for me to want to do a season? '_';
Hahah, yeah, it's so cute.
Hahaha. What next?
Ame-chan? In dripping wet see-through clothes?
Suddenly bad weather doesn't seem so bad.
not a sucker for moe but must admit kinda cool.
General Winter was what one ME over personally. XD
If tomorrow it were discovered that an asteroid was going to crash into Earth and eradicate all life as we know it, how long would it take for the first pictures of Asteroid-chan to surface on pixiv?
Seems kind of cute actually...
In other weather news:
Today we'll have light rain and giant moe heads all over... more to come.
I wonder what normal Japanese think of seeing all that moe everywhere where they look?
I believe there are many people who aren't into Anime etc.
Or maybe they want to increase birthrates by putting young and cute faces all over the place. xD
Normal Japanese???
There is such a thing?
Smart Americans???
There is such a thing?
Grammar?
Is there such a thing?
Now watch grammar-nazi bashers zerg-rush my comment.
anime is... everywhere. just like you don't blame tv company for using too much graphs and CGs.
Dude, they made a 1:1 Gundam Scale Model in the City.It's obvious that there are many people who watch anime there.
Japan, birthplace of WTF?
Which makes them superior than the average and normie You-know-what country..
all of a sudden weather just got a lot more interesting
If Japan can turn the Predator into a cute anime chick and the Arbiter (Halo) into a loli magical girl, they can sure as f*ck turn ANYTHING into cute anime girls...
You can look up the above mentioned on Pixiv...
Tags:
AvP
Halo
Yukkuri win.
Though I watch NHK at times, I don't see this sort of segment in the channel. =/
Now I have a reason to watch it while I idle. :3
lol weathermen would have to be pretty embarrassed.. trying to take their jobs seriously as meteorologists who havespent years getting their degree, only to have their job be based on communicating with little moe characters.
Hilarious
Here (Oregon, U.S.A.) I've noticed that the most useful weather information is presented in the most terse and "boring" format: the almost-robotic voice of the National Weather Service reading lists over the radio.
"Luckiamute River, six feet below flood stage, expected to crest in the next 24 hours... Willamette River, two feet above flood stage, expected to crest in the next 12 hours... (etc.)"
For day-to-day stuff, I just look out the window.
If I lived in Japan, I'd want to know about typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods (if they have them), and earthquakes (if they could accurately predict them in advance).
Moe weathercast trumps regular weathercast anyday.
Questions is, is moe weathercast > naked weathercast?