Forum - View topicINTEREST: New Akihabara Shrine Seeks Miko to Perform Figurine Memorial Services
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TheFullmetalOne
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Say what?
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Lemonchest
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"You're late home today, hun?"
"Sorry. I was attending a memorial service to my old figurines" "..." |
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zrnzle500
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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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Fronzel
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Be mindful of the pyre; burning plastic gives off poisonous fumes.
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Tanteikingdomkey
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Not hugely religious, but isn't that kind of... I don't know... Disrespectul?
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Mr. Oshawott
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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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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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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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I'd take my Ben Reilly figure...okay, I wouldn't... 
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