Sapporo Snow Festival 2015 Cooler Than Ever
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 8, 2015 04:16 JST
- Tags: Events, Hatsune Miku, Marketing, Sapporo, Sculptures, Winter
Sapporo’s seasonal Snow Festival has arrived yet again, boasting an impressive amount of finely crafted snow sculptures much like years previous – and with Snow Miku’s new design being the subject of numerous works in particular, along with an abundance of other anime inspired pieces.
Some of the stellar sculptures on exhibit, hopefully incapable of causing anyone bodily harm:
Togijo no Senhime: Another Story Unexpectedly Gory
Coming of Age Day Illustrations Quite Formal
Atelier Shallie Plus Trailers Unbearably Cute
Pyramid Head’s Great Knife Replicated
Mortal Kombat X DLC More Gruesome Than Ever
Top 10 Most Anticipated Anime of Winter 2016
Splatoon “Super Play Time” Absolutely Cringe-worthy
Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut “Dragons & Mechs?”
Monster Hunter X Megaman Event Profusely Blue
Love Live! Sunshine!! MV “Will Brighten Up Your Day!”
Top 10 Best Anime Girls of 2015
Hai to Gensou no Grimgar “Has Oppai!”
Picking Up Japan Express Vol. 36 Worth a Pickup
Dimension W Out Of This World
Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir PV Certainly Nostalgic
One-Punch Man Soundtrack PV Packs A Wallop
XmasTrickStar “A White Christmas Indeed…”
Wo-Class Carrier Ero-MMD In Dire Straights
Voice Translation Tool Promotional Video “Inexcusable!”
Luck & Logic Far From Lucky
Skimpy Elf Bikini Cosplay by Saku Supremely Sexy
Gothic Lolita Hatsune Miku Cosplay Busts Out
Delectable Dizzy Cosplay by Lechat
Dark Elf Cosplay by Non Very Dark Indeed
Titillating Tamako Cosplay Perfectly Pink
Goddess of 2ch: “Full of Lust & Urges (& Also Videos)!”
Raunchy Reisen Inaba Cosplay by Tsuyato
Haruhi Bunny Girl Cosplay Rocks Out
Youmu Ero-Cosplay by Madoka Adachi Deadly Sexy
Comiket 89 Cosplay Sickeningly Sweet
I wanna hit that damned QB one with a fucking RPG.
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They should actually use SnowMikupers... I mean Snowtroopers.
In the Evangelion one, the Eva is awesome but Asuka and Rei..oh God why?
I thought I was getting tired of all things Star Wars, but that tribute sculpture is epic.
Yeah that has got to be the best one.
Oh god, merchandise booths. They're very slowly turning this into another moe festival.
No giant snow penises? Japan disappoints us.
Why is Kyubey’s name written with a hiragana e?
Thanks for pointing that out.
I read it as キュウベス - mistook the え for ス
Ask Urobuchi Gen?
It's just how his name's spelled. Why does your nickname uses the arabic numeral "2" instead of the roman one "II" or the word "two"?
This is katakana, so everything is normal.
Nope, not really. The rest of it is katakana, but the e is in hiragana and it's kind of weird like that.
Yea, right. MyAnimeList says: "His name is written in both Hiragana and Katakana as キュ(kyu)ゥ(u)べ(be)え(e). So the more acceptable Romaji for his name is Kyuubee/Kyuubey."
But why? We have to go deeper and investigate it.
OMG, lots of cool sculptures! :)
Darth Vader looks so damn badass!
The first phrase I thought after seeing theo ne related to Mario was "It's a me, Ice-Mario!" XD
Wheres the Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon?
Or the Elizabeth slide lol.
Or the giant Hasegawa-san with wings...
Hey look! Our very own Manila Cathedral is there!
This is sad. I'm sure there are plenty more sculpture than what was shown here but several years ago when I saw these they weren't taken over by otaku culture and instead displayed more magnificent art works like castles and buildings that would required days and weeks of work.
Otakus ruin everything.
You're... pretty confusing.
"I'm sure there are plenty more sculpture than what was shown here" - Duh!
"but several years ago when I" - word pattern of an old hag.
"taken over by otaku culture" - culture is not property of one or another group, nor a zero-sum game. If you add to culture, you're just creating new stuff, not destroying the old one.
"that would required days and weeks of work" - as opposed to this, which probably took like 5 minutes each, right? (that's sarcasm).
"Otakus ruin everything" - and that's why you're visiting a website most people would associate with the word "otaku".
Moreover, if you don't like what an artist creates, create something yourself, or comission art, but complaining that the art produced by society at large does not take into account your niche interests displays entitlement and lack of self awareness.
Yet their the only ones making art like this. We Americans should be making those Frozen and Star Wars structures but were just to lazy. orz
to each their own