An elementary school set to open in 2011 has made the unusual choice of naming itself after a popular loli eroge maker, Sakuranbo Elementary School.
The brand’s name is 私立さくらんぼ小学校 / Shiritsu Sakuranbo Shougakkou, “Private Cherry Elementary School.” It has been publishing loli eroge since 2002, including such classics as “Imouto Pet” and “My Wife is a — Schooler.”
Yamagata prefecture’s newest school, さくらんぼ小学校 / Sakuranbo Shougakkou, is set to open in April 2011.
Anyone searching for the name of the school in Japanese will be greeted by search results dominated by helpful loli eroge related links. The brand’s Wikipedia page carefully stresses that there is no connection between the school and the brand. The school itself does not yet have any online presence.
Presumably those involved with the naming were either great fans of the brand, or else never bothered to check what occupied the top slot in Google. They can perhaps be forgiven for not being aware of the unfortunate nuance the name carries when translated into English.
A mother asked about the school’s opening commented “It’s a cute name, it’s nice for it to have an affectionate name like that.”
For those wondering about a possible alternative origin of the naming choice, Yamagata prefecture’s Higashine City, the location of the school, is the nation’s number one producer of cherries with an annual output of 4,000 tons.
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Cherries? I approve. ( ＾∇＾)
We all do :D
Popping one, you mean?
Yes but I prefer them a little more ripe then that.
And fresh! I don't like spoiled or used goods ^^
Damn, this town produces huge amounts of cherries to pop...
loli-school, because even lolis need training :P
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Proceed.
Cherry Trees are very popular.
careful pedobears open season is about to be open on you
If it's pedobear's open season, then it means we get to hunt him down.
In this case, those children are our bait to lure him out.
loli ban: the lolicon strikes back
Law Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Speak for yourself.
Of course we speak for yourself...
Delicious Indeed
This will become an inside joke for the students.
students only?
Not as much of a joke as the UK government's online child-safety website which shared its name with a gay porn site
Honestly the parents who send their kids to this school are asking for something...
time to get my raep face on...
...i'm sorry.
They're not asking for you to go "cherry picking" if that's what your hinting at anon....
This is relevent to my interests
Pierre Woodman School
Because the school team up with loli eroge maker
They make up 2/3 of the economy of japan so I think they just wanted to give back to the community????!
In can already imagine all the future articles about the teachers for this school molesting their students.
*Pop*
I admit, I lol'd.
Please donate too my shrine!~ :>
ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━ !!!!!
Renaming your shrine Cherry Shrine won't give you more money Reimu.
I don't know....if we fill the shrine with lolis dressed as miko,it might just rake in a fortune.
Such dedication for artist these days. LOL
cherry is a fruit.But it's funny when people decide to connect it to such things
What isn't a sexual innuendo?
You didn't know? Popping cherries a few times a day leads to better tasting stuff!
I see what you did thar.
nice reference to the "semen" post.
"Sakuranbo" is also the proper Japanese name of Cherry the monk in URUSEI YATSURA so the school can just claim it's named after him.
So the school song will be 'oh oh oooohh oh oh' ?
better yet
"ahn ah ah ahhhn"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy_xbXIJ898&feature=related [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy_xbXIJ898&feature=related]
Is there a citation for this story? For obvious reasons I can't even find a reference to the real school...
Not trying very hard?
Google "さくらんぼ小学校" > 4th link is a Google News Mainichi article on the school's opening "さくらんぼ小：僕らの学校、公募で特産品名に－－山形・東根"
What type of cherries are they talking about? lol :p
The kind that taste sweet, AJ12.
I wonder what effect it will have on the band if this "loli ban" in Tokyo goes through?
Guess the uniform would be a full body black square covering the front and the back of the kids. And the government will kindly donate some voice distorters (sp? sorry, english not my native language but hey, I try)... but hey, if I were a parent, I'll be proud saying that my child studies in *bam jailed again*
i lol'd so hard
Well, it's a pretty common name, not weird that the school chose it at all.
I must apply for whatever job available there.
Looks like there will be no shortage of ero-sensei news in 2011!
And SanCom wll be the first to report them!!
And you will be part of them too, amirite, Mr. Pedro?