Gundam Charity Auction has finally been closed

Gundam Charity Auction has finally been closed today 5PM at 2,601,000 Yen. It means the winning bidder can go to the real size Gundam's shoulder using a crane. 　The winner was TV program scenario writer, he spent 10 minutes around Gundam's shoulder.

This is Yahoo Japan! Pet's "fit completely competition". Hmm cute! We use adjective "Suppori" for fitting completely. So this competition is called Suppori competition. I like this one. It looks like Egyptian statue.

Do you know Velib? 　It's a public bicycle rental program in Paris, France since 2007. 20,000 bicycles were introduced to the city with 1,450 automated rental stations and people can use them freely. It's pretty good idea for less traffic and also for health. In Tokyo will make a test installation in Marumouchi area from October to December, they will start it on 50 bikes first. I will this movement can be bigger in Tokyo.

Since this article "Love in 2D" was picked in Boing Boing, you may read already. 　All comments to article were critical and I also feel simply "It's ridiculous". But there are people loving funfair ride or Eiffel Tower or woman a married Berlin War. I guess people won't criticize them because we think it's objectum-sexuality and in many cases, it is related to Asperger syndrome. If he can love only pillow, he will be one of objectum-sexuality though, but his love is not for pillow, it's for moe character on pillow, I must agree he is dong detachment from reality. However since he is happy very much with pillow, who can force him to give it up. By the way, he has his own blog and in this blog, most comments are warm to him and people said " you can go your way".

Comments

[Jeff]

Mari, please don't take this the wrong way because the missing "i" below is a typo anybody could make, but this phrase made me spit soda out of my nose from laughing:

"I must agree he is dong detachment from reality."

I think you are more right than you know! I'm going to use the phrase "dong detachment" to describe "moe" fans from now on :)

btw, the New York Times has been on a big kick about stories on the underbelly of Japan lately... they had another one recently about hostess bars, in which they basically implied all hostesses are prostitutes. They don't understand the culture at all.

[Lem]

With the Suppori competition, i get the feeling a lot of people have cats. Or it could be cat owners like putting cats into jars ^_^

[Sam]

Yeah, I don't care if he loves the cushion.

In the US, we get a lot of news stories that try to show how Japan is so weird compared to America. The article made it seem like lots of Japanese men are like Ni-san, and only love anime girls.

[rich chestmat]

The issue with 2D love is not the concept of a man 'in love' with a cushion. the issue is that it's a fake story. The gentleman is known for hoaxes and publicity stunts. People are upset that the Tokyo Mango blog author did not do her research or check her facts. Neither did the New York Times who published the story.
As such I unsubscribed form tokyo Mango and cannot trust anything from that source.