“Sakuranbo Elementary School,” a new school which chose to give itself the same name as popular lolicon eroge brand, is refusing to change its name despite being informed of its namesake by a number of sources.
The school chose the name “Sakuranbo” (“Cherry”) based on the local cherry industry, but did not bother to run the most basic of Internet searches to see what else is using the name.
Had they done so, they would have discovered that their choice of “Sakuranbo Shougakkou” is already the name of an eroge brand centred on providing adult games of interest to lolicon erogamers.
The unfortunate choice was widely reported when it became apparent, and soon parents began to call for a new name.
The local mayor is having none of it, and in a recent press conference for concerned parents vowed to go ahead with with the lolicon-friendly naming:
“If we were to change the name, on the contrary we would just be justifying the adult world.”
Just what kind of logic lead him to this conclusion is unclear.
The school is set to open in 2011.
Lesser cases of unfortunate naming have lead to changes – in 2007 Hyogo prefecture’s “Eichi Daigaku” (“Wisdom University”) changed its name to “Saint Thomas University” after it was pointed out that “eichi” sounds very similar to “ecchi,” and that the name is also used by an adult publisher.
That principal wants everyone to understand that a name is what you make of it. He wants you to believe that he’ll run the school so well, that you’ll all forget about that other sakuranbo and think only of his school.
*face palm* another over protective overacting parents and citizens, sigh, panic is such a pain in the ass.
The tentacles of Political Correctness strikes again!
“If we were to change the name, on the contrary we would just be justifying the adult world.”
NICE..
It’s precisely how some of the comments here are creepy and pedophiliac in nature that these moral issues come out in the first place. If you morons stop letting your kiddyfucker sides go out whenever news articles like this are posted anywhere in the web, then there wouldn’t be as many stupid issues like this.
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/politics/local/100909/lcl1009091656003-n1.htm
Well, it seems my fun time is over…
Once again we will burn the school at night or change its name. This is equality now.
This a person from Equality Now here. We will change the name of the at school or we will burn it at night when there is no one there. That’s all.
Will they have an electric fence to keep Pedo Bear out?
what the hell? it’s a fucking name O_O
I can imaging what will happen with Sakuranbo Shougakkou’s director(?) in the future games. Could be pretty fun.
I don’t see any problem with the name personally. It’s not like they created a new game company with this name.
Typical media overreaction, this isn’t just limited to Japan.
It’s RETARDED that the entire spectrum of possible porn/H-related names or titles are forever soiled just because porn exists.
Grow up, people. And good for that mayor.
If it’s based on the local industry then why should they have to change their name?
Because this name is used in eroge brand since 8 YEARS AGO, when mayor didn’t thought even in construction of this school.
And the Google.
Imagine the situation: Mother seeing the site for school of his kids and find the eroge site with same name on top of google search.
It’s a cute name, good for them for standing their ground.
Though it will likely become a mecca for pedophiles.
i just thought of a way to get schools to finaly get shut down lol just name them from some form of adult content lol
Quick! Someone have a child, move to Japan, and send said child to that school!!
Yeah…
It’s good they flipped the birdie to these “Panickers”…
The people doing much of the damage to modern society, or rather the enablers, are the “Reactionaries”. People who care nothing about anything, till it affects them or the media drums up an “OUTRAGE!!!” then they want to spend any amount of money and force to crush it dead.
And they do their damage not just so much for supporting unjust and ridiculous laws, but that “Moralist Panderers” use them for campaign work, peanuts (compared to giant corporation) $ funding and the few votes they legitimately receive. In the USA they’ve won tremendous ground with those people, relying in part on an apathetic public to not vote as much so blocks of these “Reactionary Moralist” minorities can be counted on to tip the scales in tight elections, as long as the drums of “Panic!” are beaten.
And they vote for “Good Christian” or whatever candidates that even a superficial check reveals connections to secret societies and a personal life that makes the average pornographer look moral.
Now they need to guarantee the name is not able to be normally used by school.
What about using hexadecimal instead of words?
Like 9A24F0 High School, or FA1F5B Junior high school…
What a shit. It is same of take care of not making a plagiarism of something what still did’t exist!!
Good move, sir~ That school sign shall be included in Epicwinftw.com ..
Meh, it’s just a nice name, deal with it.
This wouldn’t be a problem if the parents installed “parantal control” programs on the coms. It’s just a name.
It’s a good name.
I like it and not because it’s the same name as the eroge brand but because it mirrors it’s surrounding and is overall a cute name.
Yeah, why should one back down after naming the school after the town’s pride?
It’s time to P-P-P-P-P-POP some cherries!
If the eroge maker used the school buildings as a model for the school in the game, it would make it the perfect location for pilgrims!
I wonder if the concerned parents also made sure they didn’t inadvertently name their children after eroge characters? What a silly thing to make a fuss over.
Justifying the adult world?
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Yeah, I demand an explanation.
Why the fuss, it’s just a name? A name is innocent, people giving it dirty afterthought make it naughty.
epic name is epic why change it 🙂
So if I would say that I ate 40 cherries at the primary school gate today, then people would think that I’m a mass loli rapist?
Oh come on! It’s a CHERRY. Just a CHERRY. Not an “incest rapist” or “loli rape ok”. Japanese are releasing crazy amounts of eroge every year and with the attitude like that soon there won’t be any safe words to use. They should get over it and stop relating every single word with eroge. sakuranbo is a good name and relating it to some eroge is just pointless.
so a eroge used sakurabo as a school name? who gives a fuck, its 1 word.
Maybe they should change it to Cherry blossom….oh wait …that wold probably be interpreted as vaginal defloration
The only purpose words exist is so that we can identify specific subjects, items, people etc. They don’t mean anything, they don’t symbolize anything, they don’t do anything at all! They just exist as a means of identification. NOTHING else!!!
Actually, words exist to form the basis of a language for communication. Attaching meaning to words comes naturally in the process. Words on their own, however, aren’t a “means of identification”.
They should just change the name
End of story
They who? The school or the Doujin group?
Japan is so full of crap, I would say. Who cares if there is a porn PC game named “Cherry”? It’s a fucking fruit name, not trademarked as a porn term. Get a life, fuckers.
As for giving the name of the fruit in Japan to the school, it is not usualness.
Therefore, everyone thinks that it is strange.
Moreover, everyone is interesting because it was the same name as eroge.
Why’s this guy rated down? He makes a perfectly good point. Who gives a shit if two things coincidentally have the same name?
Unless the principal made that decision knowing about the eroge, in which case we’d better start worrying.
Exactly my point, thank you.
I think there might be a translation error? The mayor’s statement would seem perfectly logical to me if he had said “acknowledge” instead of “justify”, as he would be making an argument akin to those against affirmative action; AA being an acknowledgement that “race” is true rather than being anti-racism.
Or are those two words similar enough and I’m just nitpicking?
It would sound better but still stupid. It’s not like you can name your school Holocaust Academy because otherwise you’d be justifying the holocaust… (I’m sorry for using the nazi card, but it’s the perfect example of people getting upset when you use names related to them)
I like cherries so much!
Cherry caek! ^_^
St Thomas.westerner and its stupid culture get out from Japan
I agree, Eichi Daigaku should stay.
Wisdom is obtained after experiencing many things, if they are ecchi in nature then so be it.
hmm this could get entertaining
I was going to say that it’s similar to how affirmative action is not anti-racist because it acknowledges racism, but he didn’t say that changing the name of the school would “acknowledge” the adult world, but justify it…. is there a translation error?
I got a bad feeling about this……….
But I’ve got a good feeling about this!!!
Being the Principal, teacher or even a janitor there would be a lolicon dreams cum true.
This has so much potential for going horribly wrong…
A place where a 2D loli-fan can see how a 3D loli.
And to make it easy: Same name.
Good Job!
That’s stupid, Sakuranbo Shougakkou is a beautiful name for a school, what’s the harm of it being the same as an eroge brand?
Indeed if he obliges he’s basically stating that the eroge brand has priority and exclusivity over the name.
Considering a web search will result in 99% of the hits pointing towards the ero brand, yes, it should have priority. This is bound to be messy, and I’m going to enjoy it. ^_^
Understand what?
I just did Google image search for “さくらんぼ小” and found
stationary, lot’s of cherries (both real, candy, jewellery, and others) and a few unrelated pictures, but nothing related to the eroge in the first few pages.
You actually have to google image search for “さくらんぼ小”. Then you’ll understand :p
Sakuranbo comes up with music on the first page of google Australia
Sakuranbo is actually an argot of loli on the net.
They better put up good security measures,because perverts and predators might think of the school as a place where to pop some loli-cherries…
Some people may think that there’re
secret meals full my loli cherry，if you can find them，
just enjoy them
Good for them.
It’s just a name, parents need to stop getting so worked up.
But I’m sure Equality Now will stick their noses in sooner or later…
Fake moralism is fake. If your name is the same of a pornstar it doesn’t make you any more or less slutty. It’s all about your attitude and your core values.
Agreed. Just a name. And the fact that it means cherry is actually very nice!
Indeed, the name fits the area and its actually a fairly cute name for a school, but there are always people who when given a new name for something immediately google it and look for the indecent or crude references just to complain about something, those people need to GTFO really 🙁
I agree fully with you Cypherous. It is a good name for the school. Personally, If I lived in the area, I’d send my son and daughter there without any worry.
The name of the school means nothing (unless it’s obviously a perverted name), so long as it has a good reputation and is a safe learning environment.
If I was a father and I lived there, I would have my daughter enrolled in that school.
If I was a neet living in Japan living close to there, I would stalk your daughter going to that school.
It’d be more controversial if the word “Sakuranbo” wasn’t such a widely used wording. If it’s something much more specific like “Playboy school” then we have a true problem. lol
Kudos to the school for standing their ground.
“If we were to change the name, on the contrary we would just be justifying the adult world.” => The guy’s got a point. morality fags really are the world’s pain in the ass.Even the most innocent names are given a perverted meaning in their books just because the name is similar to an eroge maker’s one.Can any government out there just put a sock up theirs to shut them up?
Humans are stupid and the japanese are no exception…
In this case the parents are…
At the moment I suddenly thought that what if Hugh Hefner or someone similar to him in Japan is the principal of the elementary school in question? That should make sense in how the school’s name came to be.
Yo dawg, I herd you like cherries so we named that elementary school over there Cherry. Now you can enjoy cherry while you enjoy cherry.
Funny thing KrazedLumberjack, is how kindergartners already attend classes labeled as Ichigo (Strawberry), Ume (Plum) and Momo (Peach).
Sickos can make all sorts of bad taste jokes on those alone.
Well.. first you plant the seeds then
you’ve gotta wait till the seed grows into a cherry. Then you’ve gotta pop the cherry.
Strawberry licking… mmmmh. ^_^
fertilize and nurture them first before you harvest them. 😀
Allow me to start off with one;
Time to harvest some fruits! xD
The lolis coming out will be as fresh as cherries then. REALLY fresh xD
I’d pop them cherries….
Yummy cherries, who doesn’t like them?
fresh, poppable…
….
…
..cherries.
At least they aren’t trying to get the eroge brand to change its name, though I expect they have considered it.
All ero gamers will send their kids to that school. This is marketing genius! ^_^
I think devs have no probs with dat, I mean where do they find seiyuus then.
The only problem is that no matter how hard they fap to their ero games, to make kids they need a real woman.
Prepare the anti-Agnes Chan defenses and brace for impact!
The hardcore otaku are probably surveying the area already…..or they’re trying to sneak in by getting janitorial jobs.
ah that’s an invitation to child molesters ^o^
Several schools naming themselves based on eroges… coincidence!? Naaaw… :3
Agnes!
First come first serve I guess. They wouldn’t react if the SCHOOL were the first to grab the name.
I mean, it’s “Cherry”. Dauuuuh.