Post by Rumble McSkirmish on May 2, 2017 6:57:00 GMT -5
Because....Japan.
en.rocketnews24.com/2017/04/30/japanese-zoo-penguin-falls-in-love-with-cutout-of-cute-anime-penguin-girl/
Earlier this year if someone told me that a cartoon made on the cheap based on a failed (But since reinstated) mobile game would lead to things like this, I would have thought them to be crazy.
en.rocketnews24.com/2017/04/30/japanese-zoo-penguin-falls-in-love-with-cutout-of-cute-anime-penguin-girl/
Humans aren’t the only ones who can have affections for 2-D characters.
We’ve seen penguins form adorable relationships with their trainers before, but we’ve never heard of a penguin falling head over webbed-feet for an anime girl before.
Until now, anyway! Grape-kun, a penguin at the Tobu Zoo in Saitama Prefecture, has been melting the hearts of tens of thousands online after it was reported that he had his own heart melted by a cutout of Hululu, an anthropomorphic penguin from the anime Kemono Friends.
Humans aren’t the only ones who can have affections for 2-D characters.
We’ve seen penguins form adorable relationships with their trainers before, but we’ve never heard of a penguin falling head over webbed-feet for an anime girl before.
Until now, anyway! Grape-kun, a penguin at the Tobu Zoo in Saitama Prefecture, has been melting the hearts of tens of thousands online after it was reported that he had his own heart melted by a cutout of Hululu, an anthropomorphic penguin from the anime Kemono Friends.
For those unfamiliar with Kemono Friends, it’s a recent hit anime in Japan that stars a cast of zoo animals turned into cute moe girls. There are several penguin characters on the show, and Hululu is a Humboldt penguin, the same species as the infatuated Grape-kun.
The zoo has set up 60 cutouts of the anime’s characters throughout the park and is having the voice actors do park announcements, all to try and bring in more visitors.
Unfortunately though, it seems that just like all the great love stories, Grape-kun and cardboard Hululu’s story does not have a happy ending. Because Grape-kun was so obsessed with being around Hululu all of the time, he ignored his feedings, which worried the zookeepers since he was so old.
So in order to make sure he would not forget to eat anymore, he’s been isolated away from Hululu for the time being.
Is this the end of Grape-kun and Hululu’s romance? Only time will tell, but the zoo is planning on keeping up the Kemono Friends promotion until the end of June, so we’ll see how they deal with the situation.
We’ve seen penguins form adorable relationships with their trainers before, but we’ve never heard of a penguin falling head over webbed-feet for an anime girl before.
Until now, anyway! Grape-kun, a penguin at the Tobu Zoo in Saitama Prefecture, has been melting the hearts of tens of thousands online after it was reported that he had his own heart melted by a cutout of Hululu, an anthropomorphic penguin from the anime Kemono Friends.
Humans aren’t the only ones who can have affections for 2-D characters.
We’ve seen penguins form adorable relationships with their trainers before, but we’ve never heard of a penguin falling head over webbed-feet for an anime girl before.
Until now, anyway! Grape-kun, a penguin at the Tobu Zoo in Saitama Prefecture, has been melting the hearts of tens of thousands online after it was reported that he had his own heart melted by a cutout of Hululu, an anthropomorphic penguin from the anime Kemono Friends.
For those unfamiliar with Kemono Friends, it’s a recent hit anime in Japan that stars a cast of zoo animals turned into cute moe girls. There are several penguin characters on the show, and Hululu is a Humboldt penguin, the same species as the infatuated Grape-kun.
The zoo has set up 60 cutouts of the anime’s characters throughout the park and is having the voice actors do park announcements, all to try and bring in more visitors.
Unfortunately though, it seems that just like all the great love stories, Grape-kun and cardboard Hululu’s story does not have a happy ending. Because Grape-kun was so obsessed with being around Hululu all of the time, he ignored his feedings, which worried the zookeepers since he was so old.
So in order to make sure he would not forget to eat anymore, he’s been isolated away from Hululu for the time being.
Is this the end of Grape-kun and Hululu’s romance? Only time will tell, but the zoo is planning on keeping up the Kemono Friends promotion until the end of June, so we’ll see how they deal with the situation.
Earlier this year if someone told me that a cartoon made on the cheap based on a failed (But since reinstated) mobile game would lead to things like this, I would have thought them to be crazy.