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Tamayura Voice Actress Yuko Gibu to Work in Convenience Store for a Day

Yuko Gibu, who voices Maon in the anime film series Tamayura: Sotsugyō Shashin, will work at a convenience store for a day to help promote the movies. The store is Poplar, a chain based in Hiroshima Prefecture, which is also where Tamayura is set. However, the branch she will work at is in East Shinjuku, Tokyo, near the train station — one of the busiest spots in Japan. Her shift is on April 12 from 2 to 5 p.m., and she will be doing various ordinary convenience store things — stocking, working the cash register, cleaning, etc. — at the hourly rate of 1,000 yen (or US$8.33).

Poplar is also running a promotional campaign for the Tamayura series involving the local specialties of the Hiroshima area. Although they vary by region, they include box lunches with Hiroshima six-grain pork and miso-fried eggplant, pirate rice balls (rice balls entirely wrapped in nori seaweed and filled with konbu seaweed, tuna, shrimp-flavored mayonnaise, and spicy mentaiko), and Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki (a grilled dish with layered pork, cabbage, egg batter, squid, and other ingredients). Customers who buy two or more of these promotional items will get a free Tamayura clear file. Poplar stores will also run a commercial with Tamayura characters Fū and Kaoru and hang the above banner.

From left to right: the pork-and-eggplant box lunch, pirate rice ball packaging, and the okonomiyaki

Tamayura: Sotsugyō Shashin premiered on April 4 in Japan and will only play for two weeks. Three other installments in the series will be released in this year and 2016.

[Via Anime! Anime!; Image from Poplar]