“Sakuranbo Elementary School,” a new school which chose to give itself the same name as popular rorikon 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 rorikon 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.