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INTEREST: New Akihabara Shrine Seeks Miko to Perform Figurine Memorial Services


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TheFullmetalOne



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:24 pm Reply with quote
Say what? Confused
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Lemonchest



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:32 pm Reply with quote
"You're late home today, hun?"
"Sorry. I was attending a memorial service to my old figurines"
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:34 pm Reply with quote
Only thing I can imagine a dead figure looking like is if it were damaged beyond repair by super glue (Stuff happens). As long as you're being careful that won't happen, aside from say a house fire. In that case, they would already be cremated.
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Be mindful of the pyre; burning plastic gives off poisonous fumes.
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Tanteikingdomkey



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:26 pm Reply with quote
zrnzle500 wrote:
Only thing I can imagine a dead figure looking like is if it were damaged beyond repair by super glue (Stuff happens). As long as you're being careful that won't happen, aside from say a house fire. In that case, they would already be cremated.

Just because you are doesn't mean others are, not even to say that ()*% happens.

Can I see some people wanting this done. Yes yes I do, especially when you have people with favorite figures of their favorite waifu.
Some people can get very emotionally attached to things to be sure.
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EricJ2



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:30 pm Reply with quote
Tanteikingdomkey wrote:
Some people can get very emotionally attached to things to be sure.


I'm just wondering whether Japanese otaku actually DO get as emotionally attached as popular marketing stereotypes say they do.

I just don't get the impression that real J-otaku have gone to actual shrines to have figurine memorials and been turned away, or at least enough to support it as a profitable sideline.
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zrnzle500



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:55 pm Reply with quote
Tanteikingdomkey wrote:
zrnzle500 wrote:
Only thing I can imagine a dead figure looking like is if it were damaged beyond repair by super glue (Stuff happens). As long as you're being careful that won't happen, aside from say a house fire. In that case, they would already be cremated.

Just because you are doesn't mean others are, not even to say that ()*% happens.

Can I see some people wanting this done. Yes yes I do, especially when you have people with favorite figures of their favorite waifu.
Some people can get very emotionally attached to things to be sure.


Actually I will admit to using the aforementioned super glue before, so it's not like I'm that careful.
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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 7:04 pm Reply with quote
Tanteikingdomkey wrote:
Can I see some people wanting this done. Yes yes I do, especially when you have people with favorite figures of their favorite waifu.
Some people can get very emotionally attached to things to be sure.

Said people would be better served by a rubber-walled room and a nice comfy white jacket.
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Hoppy800



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 7:06 pm Reply with quote
The pay isn't bad either. Although I don't see a point for this, but it should be fun for the lucky ladies that get hired.
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Zin5ki



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 7:12 pm Reply with quote
Here is a proposal. Sell commemorative figurines depicting the maiden in question performing a memorial. Once such figurines are themselves dead, presuming there is a means of ascertaining when this has occurred, they can be resubmitted to the same shrine for their own memorial services to be performed.

Thus we would have a commemorative figurine commemoration, for which a separate commemorative figurine commemoration commemorative figurine could be vended. And so the cycle would grow ever more vicious.
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v1cious



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:28 pm Reply with quote
Not hugely religious, but isn't that kind of... I don't know... Disrespectul?
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Mr. Oshawott



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:46 pm Reply with quote
Perhaps this would be a good time to pay respects to all the figurines that have perished from being crushed to death or cremated in a house fire?
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lavmintrose



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:18 pm Reply with quote
Would this be like a memorial for the characters?

That's a street full of spoilers, if so, but that would actually be cool. I mean... if you know this site exists, you probably can name some fictional character deaths no one's gotten over 5 years, 10 years, 15 years later. Having a memorial service would be sweet.

Still, though... street full of spoilers.
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nargun



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:55 pm Reply with quote
v1cious wrote:
Not hugely religious, but isn't that kind of... I don't know... Disrespectul?


Somewhat surprisingly, no! Or at least not inherently. Shinto has strong pantheistic elements, so of course your figurines possess spirits same as everything else.

[which is where you get tsukumogami: the object isn't possessed by a powerful spiritual entity, the spirit that was already within the object gains power. Or see also Precure or a lot of other magical-girl shows, where the bad guys awaken the spirits within "inanimate" objects. "Religions are different", is the take-home message.]
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Ali07



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:16 am Reply with quote
lavmintrose wrote:
Would this be like a memorial for the characters?

That's a street full of spoilers, if so, but that would actually be cool. I mean... if you know this site exists, you probably can name some fictional character deaths no one's gotten over 5 years, 10 years, 15 years later. Having a memorial service would be sweet.

Still, though... street full of spoilers.

I'd take my Ben Reilly figure...okay, I wouldn't...Laughing
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