Top singer seiyuu Nana Mizuki has expressed her “profound sadness” at news that one of her fans got himself arrested after illegally dumping the 208kg of potato chips he bought to get the chance to meet her on stage – not least because one of her own fans has just undone all the days she spent charitably picking up garbage herself.
The crisps contained lottery tickets which would grant an invitation onto the stage to 10 winners at Nana Mizuki’s upcoming August concert.
The 25-year-old Hyogo prefecture salaryman was so desperate to get one that he bought 89 boxes of the snack, each containing roughly 1,000 packets and costing ¥300,000 in total.
He unsurprisingly enough had no intention of eating them all, but found he had no way of getting rid of the 208kg of unwanted food and packaging (paying someone to dispose of them apparently being out of the question), and so dumped them all in 6 different wooded locations in the nearby towns.
Police took a dim view of this illegal littering and soon caught up with him, arresting him on charges of unlawful dumping, which he admitted, noting that “I bought a lot, but found I was having trouble getting rid of them so I threw them away.”
Ironically enough Nana Mizuki is a “special supporter” of the “MaruGomi” project, which encourages “people everywhere to have a fun time picking up trash at the same time, on the same day, and with the same feelings,” and spends a day each year picking it up – which probably would not go very far in clearing up the mess her fan made.
Hearing about the incident from a manager, she was “incredibly sad” – telling her fans “I wish from the bottom of my heart that nothing like this ever happens again.”
With the colossal wastefulness of idol marketing already attracting much attention in the wake of the general election, there are by now more than a few Japanese who are disgusted by the nation’s already seemingly pointless recycling efforts being undone completely by the music industry mafia – though with otaku spending being pure Abenomics there seems to be no danger of anyone actually doing anything about it.
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I dont think I'll ever come to understand these people. I love anime, but not to the extent these ppl obsess over a single person :\
AKB48 have how much to do with Anime again?
I mean, I dont think that his wastefull behavior has any excuse, as he could still give to food to charity or something, but instead he throws it away like old porn mags...
He's guilty of naivety more than anything. As a fan he likely bought the boxes without giving much thought as to what he would do with them when they arrived, he likely was only concerned with getting the reward. If he lives in an apartment or something, he likely panicked when most of his living space was filled with boxes lol.
Imagine the opposite situation. Imagine him getting his ticket on his first try. He'd do the same.
Should have gone to a community center and give the snacks to kids, keeping his tickets for himself. He would be the hero of the neighbourhood for months.
He's comparing the level of obsession he has for something(anime) to AKB48 maniacs. It was stated pretty clearly.
Nana Mizuki has done a lot of roles as an anime VA, and as far as I know she isnt related to AKB48.
She's been a seiyuu for longer than a lot of those AKB girls have been able to talk; longer than some have been alive, even.
Serious BBA.
What a waste of food... if you can call that food.
They got an own anime.
Nana mizuki also has nothing to do with akb48.
Also akb48 have an anime technically so they do relate. Also obsessive behaviour of anime otaku tends to also cross over into idol otaku. Theyre not atonomous groups. Desire to meet mizuki could be for either reason as she is kind of a big deal seiyuu wise along with music wise.
But yeah, I cant understand these people either..
you need to open the chips to obtain the raffle ticket.
charity isn't going to take opened food.
Indeed..
You would think they would see a photo of what she ACTUALLY looks like at some moment in time also..
That yahoo link showcases that the ad picture is 95% photoshop..
Nonsense, they just brighten her skin. They do that with just about anyone. I've seen plenty of documentaries, and untouched photos to say that she doesn't look that different than on the promo picture.
In my honest opinion, they should just cut out the middle man. Let them pay either ridiculous amounts or auctions things like these. They'd earn the same but didn't have to print a lot of CD's which are then just thrown away. Same goes for this crisp action here...
This incident give me flashback to when i was 7 year olds. You know that snack that contain Rockman X cards? I remember bought a bunch of them just to get the card inside and throw the snack away because I bought too much.
Same go for Yu-Gi-Oh, MTG cards but that one doesn't contain snack. The same principal kinda applies here i feel.
im just reminded of charlie and the chocolate factory... i have no such story of my own because i never wanted to be a veruca salt... actually i couldnt even pretend to be even 1% as rich as that
and she litterally looks like the kind of girl you'd find living as your neighbor right next door... seriously, keep that 300K yen and just go for a walk outside your house and get the guts to just meet a girl like that if you really want to...
You cannot buy "guts" no matter the money.
money = guts ....name me one rich shy person
elon musk,clever guy but his social skills are a bit down.
married with kids though! amazing what cash can do..
Beer = liquid "guts" since its invention. For the amount he's spending, this is a whole lot better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Mizuki
Mizuki Nana's main selling point isn't that she's cute: it's that she's Mizuki Nana. Though I wouldn't personally spend $3000 to meet a celebrity, I'd definitely consider her a better pick than the average pretty face.
She voices my laptop.. *haa... haa...*
Nana Mizukis main selling point is her voice, whether as a singer or seiyuu.
seriously, japan! ive never heard of anyone going after a hot gravure model like yoko matsugane to an extent like this (or any extent really)
wasteful comment coming through!!!
It's modern day goddess worship.
Sore ga Aidoru Otakuizumu。
That's exactly the reason why you can't understand. I personnaly understand this guy, it doesn't shock me at all, actually 300.000 yens isn't that big of a deal.
But I can't understand people who are so crazy about anime characters, since they aren't real, I really can't understand how someone can get worked up about drawings.
But for real peoples, for idols, I think it's totally normal.
It might not seem much, specially compared to the amount other fans spend to meet their chosen celeb. But it's over 1month average salary in Japan, so it's still a lot of money.
Meh, I personally prefer ideas to people, but to each his own.
made up characters are usually far more admirable than real popular personalities tend to be, though
He could have sold the snacks on Ebay, there seems to be a huge demand for Japanese food, snacks etc on the website. People would buy it for the right price. With a bit of sensibility he could have made his money back.
Seriously, right? You could give it away or pawn it off on some independent shop owners for a fraction price for much less effort than hauling it off into six different locations and trying to dump it.
Who in his right mind would buy 89000 opened potato chip bags?
The tickets were presumably inside the chips, though. He would have had to open each packet to check for tickets; no one's going to buy opened potato chips.
grind them into powder and sell them to china as erectile dysfunction treatment.
There must have been some unopened packs by the time he managed to get his ticket
AKB-48's existence revolves around financially exploiting men who are obviously mentally ill; who else would pay money like this to shake someone's hand?
Everything the franchise does is designed to take advantage of the loneliness and severe emotional problems of their obsessive fans and give them the false hope that a girl like that might be their gf one day.
It's disgusting, and in any civilised country, people wouldn't stand for this bullshit.
God fucking dammit, I make this angry comment, and then I check again and see that she's not an AKB-48 member! ;_;
Still, the comment applies to the seiyuu industry in general.
its also not the same kind of promotion AKB has. Its just chips that or may not have one of TEN (as in, only ten) tickets inside to see her on stage. Something like Willy Wonka's golden ticket inside chocolate bars. Which - in the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - actually did inspire people to buy truckloads of chocolate to try and get one....sometimes fact takes after fiction.
Forget everything else, this guy who bought the chips is just an idiot for not understanding probability, plain and simple.
Wait more importantly did he win or not? How could they leave that out in the story.
If he still has the guts to show his face to her....
What a wimp. A true Murican would have eat them all up in a single football match.
The story fails to mention( but i believe) the tickets are inside the packaging not on the outside. You cannot resell or give away opened packs of foodstuff it's unsafe and unclean. Was he too embarassed to dispose of in his own rubbish.
And suddenly her fan base tripled in size.......waist size.
that rarely happens to japanese. their usual food is just to healthy for that. a few potato chips don't do any harm.
there are lots of fat japanese otakus. you just don't see them normally cos they are in their room.
not to mention america is bringing their junk food everywhere making everyone in the world fatter.
Why go through all that trouble. If you have that much money just bribe your way into the backstage area and meet her. You don't need to go through that potato chip bullshit you tard.
they are dumb, hence why he bought more than he could handle