Rei: “Come Visit the Onsen of Hakone!”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 7, 2010 09:28 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Evangelion, Marketing, Onsen, Otaku, Rei Ayanami, Shizuoka, Tourism
Ayanami Rei appears to have taken a break from piloting giant robots and gratuitously taking her top off in order to promote tourism to Hakone, a region of Shizuoka prefecture renowned for its hot springs.
Just what Rei has to do with the 17 hot springs or the Great Boiling Valley is not clear, but this has never stopped opportunistic character marketing before – doubtless Hakone will be experiencing a surge of otaku visitors such as to make it reconsider the wisdom of the campaign.
Those looking to visit the 17 onsen can find out more at the official site.
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...a hot onsen sex with Rei clones, what more do you want...
of coarse one read head tsundere would be better
Don't they place mostly Rei on products ? Maybe Asuka isn't such a bitch which will sell to anybody :)
Rei clones fall apart when you put them into hot water or when you try to put "things" into them :)
Asuka is German - those rasists want only Japanese 2D girls on their products
Half-German!
But still, she isn't pure Japanese. (the racism reaches even 2D characters, wtf...)
Therefore she won't get offers like Rei does :)
Even when Asuka is more popular among otakus.
Only cheap jobs like apartmens selling (http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/04/29/evangelion-apartments/) with depressed Shinji and Fuyutsuki.
I read that even in Eva2.0 she've got only a few minutes on screen, damn you Anno :)
Or i.e. there is a Rei USB flash disk (http://forums.techarena.in/portable-devices/1051350.htm) and where is the Asuka version ?
I like Rei but she isn't as hot as the red head tsundere :)
Using 2D characters to promote products/places has been going on for some time now... Probably because they weren't willing to pay the 3D celebrites
Well, at least with 2D people, you don't have to pay them
I'm pretty sure they need to pay somebody to use Rei in an ad. Considering copyrights and the fact Rei is a somewhat well-known design.
Rei on this image looks somewhat... manly...
been there done that...well @ ONE of the places neways
Well if they can promise me that Rei will be in the hot spring with me then i will gladly go.
Makes sense. Rei is one of most beloved anime characters of all time.
Cool! Is Rei gonna be in the hot spring??
i went there and it's only your usual onsen....
I'd go if it was Yoko instead of Rei.
Is it bad when I saw "Hakone", I thought "WMMT"?
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wmmt3+hakone&search_type=&aq=f [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wmmt3 hakone&search_type=&aq=f]
Hakone is the city tokyo-3 is based off, geographicallly.
Exactly. The heart of Tokyo-3 would be located just to the north of the top of the lake. The Hakone hot springs are the ones they visit in the series.
i wonder if all eva fanboys will go there xD
>xD
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>i not capitalised
>horrid grammar
>mixed case username
You really are a tremendous faggot.
If only everyone was born with perfect english and the sense of refinement you have, grammar anon2. Life would be great.
'horrid grammar?'
how so? not the best but it works
It’s all about thermal expansion.
It's also about D Type equipment and penguins in hot springs...
I for one, would definitely go if there were hot water penguins around.
Heh. I'd definitely go if a Rei cosplayer got in the onsen with me.
Granted, here's your cosplayer:
http://morbidoptimism.com/images/amAyanami.jpg
Oh how I wish I was an evil geany....
Evil indeed...
Is Asuka there too? =p
Now if I could use the onsens WITH Rei, that would be worth the airfare itself. :)
She does have clones, after all. One for each visitor. :)
Gah. The waters of Hakone will get tainted with all the otaku influx.
NO DAMMIT!!! IT'S CALLED LCL!!!!
What does Rei have to do with Haknoe?
Well, Haknoe is the site of Tokyo-3....
This.
The sea level raised, remember? Hakone is the closest mountain range to Tokyo.