K-ON! Girls Robbed of Instruments in Otaku Mega-Heist
- Categories: News
- Date: Nov 18, 2010 11:35 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Bizarre, Crime, Guitars, K-ON!, Otaku, Shiga, Theft, Video Gallery
Thieves have robbed Azunyan and company of their very instruments, to say nothing of thousands of dollars in cash and goods, striking the school otaku have chosen to venerate for being the spiritual home of K-ON!
Shiga prefecture’s Toyosato elementary school is of course the school which served as the model for the highschool attended by the girls of K-ON! and subsequently attracted many otaku tourists after being identified.
Its gradual conversion into a K-ON! shrine by otaku proved its undoing however, as thieves evidently deemed its collection of valuables a prime target.
Items stolen included a safe with ¥290,000 in proceeds from the sale of goods, various guitars (pictured prior to their theft) and 22 figures, along with various other goods, all of which were left at the school as offerings by K-ON! devotees.
Thieves seem not to have made off with Ritsu’s drum kit for some unfathomable reason…
The school has seen an estimated 40,000 K-ON! fans make the pilgrimage to the site, although this attention has at times been a mixed blessing, with reports of suspicious persons and vandalism accompanying the arrival of the horde of K-ON! obsessed maniacs.
The reaction amongst otaku appears to be one of profound sadness. Desperate otaku themselves seem unlikely suspects given the thieves evidently knew the location of the safe, possibly suggesting an inside job, not an unlikely possibility given the rather notorious criminality of Japan’s teaching profession.
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I so wanna visit there!
What a new low.
Nothing is sacred.
Nothing ever was sacred :P
k-on sacred pffttt don't make me laugh!
Go to Hell you cynical Jew bastard.
Someone will pay for this...
@Anon12:16 We're not making you laugh.
Could have been other desperate otaku who were now broke from paying 8500¥ for the 2eps per Blu-ray Limited Edition releases of K-ON!!
Isn't it around 6500 yen for 2 episodes, like pretty much every anime in Japan. ( well at least on Amazon). To bad it doesn't come with anything other than two episodes.
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While nothing may be sacred, there is something to be respected.
People are lacking respect. Sacrilege is all about religion... Maybe sacrilege to the otaku-maniacs, but money to the grave robbers.
Thieves stole K-On's precious things? -_-
Those bastards took Azunyan guitar. *RAGE*
More like nothing is EVER respected.
Release Yui.
She'll sniff out Gitah in a heartbeat
I bet 2ch will start a witch-hunt. I almost pity the thieves... nah.
2ch will probably make the thieves commit suicide live via videostream.
This is just sick...
You don't touch nor steal such things from a shrine devoted to the likes of Yui and Co...
That's beyond the lowest...
*shakes head in anger*
I hope the blasphemous thieves who did this have a 1-way trip to Silent Hill (Japanese Branch)~
Every sperm is sacred.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8
I suggested we steal Ritsu's drum as well, but my colleagues said it was too heavy for little worth as nobody liked Ritsu.
welll...I do,like she's my fav chara
What!? Ritsu is awesome. D:
Ritsu fans UNITE!
ah, my ritsu drum set was left behind,
thank god,
ritsufag reports in!
i love ritsu
just cause she's so awesome her instument wasnt stolen :3
This is just terrible why the fuck would you steal this and think you are going to get away with it.
If even the slightest bit of information is leaked about the culprit all of 2ch will be on them like black Condoleezza Rice.
In case you're interested theres a little more info here:
http://itaotaku.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/a-sad-day-for-k-on-fans/
They will just burn it and keep ashes ^_^
Good Job =)
Heheheh~
Wait till the shows over to come back with K-ON! stories. Where was this interest on Sancom when the series was airing.
The persons that did this aren't Otaku. They are only thieves that give a bad name to all the Otaku.
They should get caught and go to jail.
moar like, the person who did that are definitely k-on haters
the guitars and all valuable stuffs were actually offerings by the otaku themselves
I guess those petty thieves gave no fuck about what they were stealing as long as it's valuable. *sighs*
I'm pretty sure that on the contrary, they wanted to troll the k-on fans hard and didn't care about the value of the stuffs
I seriously doubt the safe with money is of any worth to the K-On fans.
If they wanted to troll so hard, the objects would be smashed, not stolen. Plus the market value of those instruments alone are enough to warrant their theft.
Haven't seen anything robbed so badly since... the character designs and personalities for EVERY FUCKING CHARACTER IN K-On...
This just gets weirder and weirder.
Rather unfortunate that it was our Moe icons though. Of course maybe they should have sealed them in a glass case and kept a divider up. At least make sure there is security to keep watch over such valuable objects. Even if it was an inside job, it wouldn't have hurt to add in some extra precautions because it would help narrow down the perps.
aww.... poor ric-chan
How dare someone steal from the shrine of Mio and Azu-nyan D:< hopefully they get hunted down and caught by otaku, that would be interesting...
I can only imagine the counter assault by the otaku community to hunt them down, with whatever means necessary.
Counter Strike Otaku Edition...
Otaku Vs Evil Otaku
It will get really ugly. Heheheh.
wish i could lead the hunt lmao
How dare they!? You might as well be robbing a church. Those hooligans.
That's...rather sad to be honest. I'm very sad that it happened, because of my love for both the series as the guitars and other instruments in general. But equating this to robbing a church is a little much in my opinion.
Also, I'm not surprised that someone would do this. In fact, I'm more surprised that it took this long =/
All thieves of anime (not those in anime) must perish!!! OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!! Where's my saw!!!!
poor moe never saw it coming
Already on it >:3 *hax into all security cams*
I'm such a criminal genius.
People like these give us good Otaku a bad name....>_>
Agreed. This is humilating, even among innocent Otaku.
I seriously hope they get the fags who did this and return the instruments. Very unlikely though....>_>
they will get caught...sooner or later
This is terrible! I can't believe someone would do something like this. The news just seems to be getting more and more horrendous each day. I'm outraged! >.<
@ShiraYuki619 they should pray that they don't get caught by the raging otakus.
Yes. I too thought this was a disgusting thing to see happen. I mean, Otaku had given something away to an RL school that resembled their beloved K-ON school, and then this...
Beyond redemption - definitely needs retribution!
Swift catch and slow, painful death I hope....