Earlier this month, the TIF Gakuen Spring School Festival, in one of the neighborhoods of Tokyo. This is an event related to the annual summer concert series tokyo idol festivaland the idol unit Shiso Crayon was among one of the participating groups.
In addition to obvious musical performances, the idols also put on some “class projects,” following the tradition of Japanese students hosting cafeterias, horror houses, or other forms of entertainment in their classrooms during school festivals (as you’ve probably heard dozens of times). seen in the anime). So, when the Shisso Crayon girls finished their concert in the morning, they headed to the room they had been lent to set up their project: “Whack an Otaku”.
The concept was taken from the game “Whac-A-Mole“, where the player has to hit some moles that come out of different holes in the base with a toy mallet. What these idols did was very similar, but instead of hitting moles, what they did was hitting the bare heads of otakus.
Obviously the hammers are plastic and wouldn’t hurt even if used hard, and they even make a funny squealing noise when you hit something with them. It’s also reassuring that no one was tricked into participating in this “idol smacking session,” as these participating otakus paid a commission of 1,000 yen (about $8) if they wanted to get hit by these girls. This was in addition to admission to the TIF Gakuen Spring School Festival, which was only 4,000 yen (about $32).
And it was obvious that this would not go unnoticed by Japanese netizens, who commented things like: “This is crazy, I love it»; «This is life»; «They will surely cherish those memories for a lifetime.»; «Great event planning, get manager promoted»; «They weren’t kidding when they said they were going to beat up otakus at their next event.»; and “I also would have liked the opportunity to participate!».
