Otaku Celebrate Erica Hartmann’s Birthday
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 20, 2010 16:04 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Anniversaries, Erica, Food, Otaku, Pantsu, Ronery, Strike Witches, Video Gallery
Strike Witches’ Erica Hartmann celebrated her birthday on the 19th of April, and following hallowed otaku tradition, many 2ch otaku devotees of the beautiful Karsland ace celebrated in unison.
A few of the expected birthday celebratory cakes, plus news of a special birthday party held in Erica’s (and her twin sister Ursula’s) honour at by Keio University‘s “Strike Witches Association”:
Note: Erica has always been one of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing’s middle-aged girls at the ripe age of 16; common otaku convention normally keeps a character’s age as a constant, as 2D characters need not age as mere mortals do.
The rightfully proud owner of the above cake even shared some words spread out over several posts with the enthusiastic 2ch crowd:
Erica, congratulations on your birthday!!
Thank you for being there for me! You are a pillar for my heart! ＞ヮ＜
In reply to praise for his skill and queries about the cake:
Thanks, everyone.
But, I’m not the one who actually made it!
The cake was a special order. (w)
I picked out the cake and put it on the tray without looking at the price like a country bumpkin, and when I got to the register the insides of my wallet went breezy!
Another cake picture:
This image, described as “a crappy lighter I made”, at least shows the appropriate spirit:
The Keio University Strike Witches Association’s birthday party page (also on Twitter):
The birthday party held by what must be a club of resident otaku at Japan’s oldest college and prestigious Keio University took place Monday afternoon, but sadly no video or photos seem to have found their way online so far, so this scheduled announcement post is all that can be shown here.
The highlight of the post is the itinerary for the party:
A sing-along of the holy chant ’2 hundred over’, Birthday Song sing-along, cake eating, and dicussion of “This is what is so cute about Archangel Erica!”
By way of helping to celebrate Erica’s special day, here is the “2 hundred over” song mentioned above, which happens to be Erica’s image song and a reference to her tally of over 200 confirmed Neuroi enemy kills:
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What I want to know is how they happen to know it's her birthday.
Happy birthday
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück
lol dunno if anyone else knows this but erica is based on erich hartman the most succesful ace pilot in the history of fighter pilots who shot down over 300 soviezt enemy aircrafts without ever being shot down himself nor losing a wingman and for those accomplishments he even me hitler a few times.
"...he even met hitler a few times."
- that's the "one" strange thing about SW -where's the fuhrer ? Maybe he was kidnapped by aliens ?
Hitler was accepted by the venetian art institute and lead a happy life as an artist before getting fried by aliens.
...but then who would designed an SS uniform for Erica ?
No, the Fuhrer is in the Bunker and... who knows, maybe the 2nd season will explain what's up with fuhrer ?
Here are the translated lyrics to the song, for those interested:
http://bambooxzx.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/strike-witches-2-hundred-over/
For a moment I thought the header said "Otaku celebrate Eric Cartman's birthday".
my fave strike witches gal^^
i'm otaku but i workout and have my own life, i'm not idiot like these
Is the birthday of a fictional character really that important?
stupid fucks
read that as "Otaku celebrate Eric Cartman's birthday"
Happy 88th birthday!
Cake makers = Superior dex + High int
That said.... Happy Birthday Erica-sama! May we see you in the next season!
At first glance, I thought it said "Eric Cartman".
I am the only one who read Eric Cartman instead of Erica Hartmann? ._.
Me too, lol.
the cake really looks tasty :o
I bet they don't remember their mothers birthday XD
Hey wait.
What if a mother of one of them was bornt April 19h?
"What if a mother of one of them was bornt April 19h?"
They still won't...and meaningless even if they do, cause they would be too busy celebrating it with 2D girls instead of their mother lol
XD Happy Birthday, sneaky pantsu thief!
Whoever decorated the cake has some major skillz. oh, happy b-day too!
Indeed, very nice job on that.
I wonder what would the grandchildren think of their otaku granpas who'd still be around 60 years later to celebrate the 76th Erica Hartmann's birthday?
..oh, right, I forgot. They would never have any grandchildren in the first place.
Even though there would be bound to be some exceptions, most of otaku making altars like that, sadly enough, aren't able to date or talk normally to a girl.
What we all know as "eternal virgins".
Actually being born in an otaku family should be lots of fun...
assuming parents wouldn't spend the money for diapers and baby food by buying more figurines :P
I THOUGHT IT WAS A FEMALE ERIC CARTMAN!!!
"eternal virgins"
"being born in an otaku family"
That's a contradiction right there
The grandchildren would gladly join the party. Why do you think it would be odd to the kids?
Probably they'd celebrate their fav characters bdays too.
Otaku Daikazoku!
Hyakunin ka zo ku.
Nice to see 2D German lolis get the lovin' too :D
Is that why there were potatoes? I was wondering about that...
I didn't get it.
Considering the previous popularity poll, I'm surprised she inspired this kind of celebration. And here I thought I had her all to myself =(
The day before Hitler's birthday
I prefer to acknowledge it as Stoner Day. It's much more pleasant to think about than Hitler though it isn't saying much.
No love for my Perrine :(
everybody hates Perrine
IMO,i don't like her because she's a flatterer
Not true.... I love all the witches at the same level....
We all love the best French in the world.
Erika Hartmann: easily the best SW.
Stupid sexy blonde...
Her birthday is the day before Hitlers?
Just a coincidence. Her birthday is taken from Erich Hartmann.
mmmm....cake....
"there's no cake ... you liars ! ... " :)
Happy belated birthday Erica~!
Now where is Obsidian...?
Anyway, Happy Birthday Erica. I wish can send you a vacuum cleaner as a birthday present.
I was celebrating Erica's birthday yesterday with a silly cupcake because I was forced to join some sort of event. = =
Happy Birthday, Erica. <3
how about a tiny bottom line in SC website with all anime characters birthday ? or maybe a site with a name like ronery.org xD
Any relation with Eric Cartman? xD
I know it's you, Kyle, cut the anon crap.