A guitar signed by the cast of K-ON! has reached over ¥20,000,000 at auction.
The guitar, scrawled on by all 5 K-ON! seiyuu and the top prize in the Lawson K-ON! Fair, was put up for auction recently and bids soon rocketed to ¥20,005,000.
The guitar itself is new, and the seller even claims he has not licked it (he also claims to be a fan of Yui and Ritsu).
The seller actually updated the auction when bids exceeded ¥1,000,000, reporting that due to the risk of insincere bids he would only be accepting bids from buyers with good evaluations. This only prompted a surge in bids however, pushing the price up to its current level.
The usual doubts over just how many of these bids can be taken seriously have arisen (although several high bidders do appear to have good reputations), but that the guitar represents a powerful item of inexplicably high value to creepy K-ON! fanatics is far from in doubt.
2ch can’t help but ponder what could be bought for this kind of sum:
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Recession? What recession!? Artificial Inflation FTW!
This is only an investment so they can sell it later for more of a profit. MARK MY WORDS HE CAN SELL THIS FOR A MILLION
I'll be waiting.
..Please... Just like that Gundam parts auction that ended at $47,000USD..oops actually was revised down to $4,000USD.
I can't see this selling for more that $5,000USD .. please no.
LOL What a money grubber! He may as well reconsider about selling that Gitah. He's gonna miss those signatures.
The current price is up to 9,999,999,999円
It might just possibly be troll betting. Possibly.
the question isnt 'how much it's selling for?'
it should be 'why on earth is he selling it?'
something like this should be priceless.. we can't equal somethings with other just with the price.. everything has different price for different people..
I guess those signatures cost ¥3,000,000 each.
...I'm not so sure man.
Getting signed by the voice actresses may seem like a hot thing for otakus, but I think it devalues the guitar for two reasons:
1. It actually makes the guitar look silly
2. The voice actresses aren't at all prominent musicians to be proud of(except maybe Minako Kotobuki)
i need to win the lotto
I've been trying to win for years no luck.
Even if you did, you'd have to share it with XX people...
People are now going to invest in this instead of the stock market.
Now that's pretty much retarded, in couple month no1 will ever remember what this crappy anime was!
A million pennies?
Jimi Hendrix's guitars don't go for that much. Eric Clapton's "blackie" guitar, which was signed by him and some of the other most famous musicians in rock history, didn't even go for a million. If a guitar signed by the voice actors of K-ON! were to go for a million, I would cry bitter, bloody tears.
this would be fun...
Starting tomorrow, I'm going to invest on these instead of the stock market.
Lower!
i guess the K-ON seiyuus can quit their job and start signing musical instruments for a living
Comes in Ika Musume terrorist package.
Oh, wait.
he bought another guitar
Those auctions always get reported to "troll" or "2chan like" places and are promptly given fake bids to no end...
It's like the seller doesn't think people with good feedback are capable of not paying. Oh no, I got one negative feedback as a buyer. This makes my account unusable.
That guitar most likely is worth that wealthy price to anyone who would buy it...
If its made by Gibson and its a real Les Paul and signed by the K-ON cast then... FUCK!! I just jizzed in mah pants. NOw I just need to find teh money...
i think that ... if the real gitar its at U$S 2.500 ... 250.000 its a robbery e.e
specially if it's signed by another one than Hirasawa Yui... the seiryuu got not interest from me
*comes in wearing an Ika Musume dress and hat with a 'Dead-Man's Belt' strapped around himself*
Ika Akbar!
*blows up along with the guitar*
Uau! Same price of a Ferrari California! SUGOI!!
But unlike the Ferrari, the guitar is 100% carbon-neutral with zero accident risk...
...provided a string doesn't suddenly snap and takes out one of your eyes...
...The strings aren't that tight, something liek that ist impossible~!!
you never played a guitar? a string or two may very well snap and cut you in the eye, if your one of the weird players that stares at their strings from above while playing that is
I got cut, left a deep gash on my wrist, had to go to emergency room.
Try asking Yui herself. She almost got her left eye cut while she was replacing her Gitah's strings.
you don't have to drive the Ferrari, you can keep it exposed as a work of art. A crappy guitar signed by five nobodies is not a work of art.
buying a car but not driving it, is art.?
really americans have some problems in undersanding things that not cope with their cerebral limits
What creepy otaku has that kind of money to spend on stuff like this?
Rich otaku.
The kind that have elderly reletives recieving pension.
"The kind that have dead elderly relatives receiving pensions."
There fixed it for you. :P
The closet otaku with rich parents.
The kind that was born in a very rich family.
rich and stupid family..if stupidity is genetically transmissible
the kind that worked hard to become rich to spend all the money on otaku goods
or the kind that has won the lottery
I wish I was a rich creepy otaku. But buying that guitar = dedication.
It's their money. Money is not something so grandiose by itself. It's what you decide to buy with it that matters, really.
While I'm a fan of K-On!, I wouldn't be able to spend that kind of money in one item. Just imagine all the trips you could make to anime stores and get a whole bunch of merchandise, instead of just one item.
Or you could save it and put a kid or two through college. Just sayin'.
Why do you assume all adults will end up having children?
...yea, instead of a poor creepy otaku.
ba-dum-tsh!