Tokyo 2020 Olympics Ambassadors Unveiled

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>>153084379
How about an anime character that actually plays a sport?

What the fuck's wrong with you Japan?

>yokai watch instead of pokemon
how

>>153084600
this
they should put kuroko, slam dunk, haikyuu, tsubasa, etc

>>153084379
>Crayon Shin-chan
Fucking why? Do people even know him outside of Japan?

>90's Sailor Moon

Just heads up, Pikachu and Doraemon are hosts so they aren't ambassadors

Anyway, I don't think Precure should be there but whatever, I guess it's popular enough, but Yokai Watch shouldn't be there at all

>>153084764
>Yokai Watch shouldn't be there at all
Will the current fad even last until 2020?

>>153084696
Anon, you should probably look up all the countries that aired/currently air Shin-chan

>>153084379
>no ashita no joe
>no ippo
how in hell do they not put in one of the hundreds of boxing based anime/manga in theses shitty ambassadors?

I'm just glad I don't live with my parents anymore so I don't have to watch the Olympics while all this anime stuff happens during it.

>>153084787
>>153084688
>>153084600
None of these have ongoing material still going on today (except Haikyuu but that's not popular enough worldwide)

Astro Boy gets to be there because it's got the biggest legacy of anything

>>153084662
https://youtu.be/FNuqKVG781I
Tsubasa is a host, which is more important than an ambassador.

No Gintoki?

I blame America for Naruto being there.

>>153084785
Spoonfeed me

>>153084379

why would they even use manga characters ?? was it the best thing they could come up with ?

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>>153084696
For some reason it aired on Fox Kids in the Netherlands around 2003-2007 and was probably as popular as western shit like SpongeBob was for at least a while. People still talk about it occasionally, but I doubt many people here who aren't into anime still know it's still being made.

>>153084849
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayon_Shin-chan#cite_note-4

>>153084847
Naruto's the number 4 bestselling manga ever.

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>>153084379
Japan literally have a competitive sports icon for every era in anime/manga.

Sixties - Speed Racer
Seventies - Ashita no Joe
Eighties - Captain Tsubasa
Ninties - Slam Dunk
Millenial - Eyeshield 21

These are actually stories about sportsmanship, competition, and athleticism, and they're probably more well known to the age groups that actually cares about Olympics.

Seriously I don't understand why they'd choose the ones they did.

so you guys think that maybe with the olympics we could see a rise of sports manga trying to cash in on the olympics?

>>153084901
>why would they even use manga characters
Why wouldn't they use manga characters?

>>153084917
I do think they should have used Speed Racer over Yokai Watch

>>153084379
Where's my Gundamu?

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>>153084379
>Who would you have chosen?
The lewdest waifus money can buy.

Wait, no hentai character ambassador? Dropped.

>>153084814

Why do the ambassadors need to be from ongoing series?

>>153084379
>no Kamen Rider, HxH, Kinnikuman, Rurouni Kenshin, Fist of the North Star
>but fucking Yokai's an ambassador

Disgusting

>>153084696
it was a thing in spain for a long time

>>153084917
What happened with Prince of Tennis? That was popular back in the day.

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>>153084379
>Who would you have chosen?
Characters that tie into Japan's rich naval tradition.

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>>153084688
>No DIO edit

>>153085004
Merchandising

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>>153084991

A succubus to control the lust of all the dirty barbarians that will flood into the glorious land of Nippon for the games?

>>153084917
literal who´s vs the most popular characters of the country

gee i dunno

I'm surprised Hatsune Miku isn't on there. She was popular as shit last I remember.

>>153085070
She'll probably feature in the opening ceremony

>>153085030
>>/mlp/

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>>153085091
>fully sentient Miku debuts at the opening cermony

>>153084379
That's hilarious, they couldn't even write Pretty Cure correctly. The typos are going to be epic.

But I'm glad they chose these characters, men, women, aliens, robots and monsters. It's perfect.

I hope the radiation levels in Fukushima go too high by then, so that they have to get Olympics cancelled.

I was really expecting Pikachu.
Is Yokai Watch popular outside of Japan?

>>153084696
Yes.

>>153085187
shhhh... remember? We are supposed to pretend nothing is wrong with Fukushima

>>153084764
>Pikachu and Doraemon are hosts so they aren't ambassadors

Explain further.

>>153084764
well the choices all make sense if you think of them in nip's pov.

Why Precure is there though?

>>153085620

Because girls can watch the Olympics too you sexist pig

>>153084379
>>153084688
Who the fuck are the faggy shota with black underwear, the chuuni blonde or the thick eyebrow doodle granpa are supposed to be?

Where's Kirito?

>>153084379
>Youkai instead of Pikachu

>>153085746
Yer mum

>No Pikachu
>No Doraemon
>Some random Youkai form Yukai Watch

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>>153085843
read the thread faggot

>No Amuro or Char or even the fucking Gundam
Who picked this?

>>153085938
Me.

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>>153084379
Where is Lala?

>>153085620
I'm just confused that they used the Maho Girls. Who's going to remember them in three and a half years? Black and White would seem like the more sensible choices.

>>153085728
But why Maho Precure? That ended last week.

>>153084379
>Worst Cures
It's shit

>>153085938
They're saving the gundam to use it as the final torch bearer

>>153086434
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>>153086463
Are you autistic? It's obviously a placeholder for whatever Cure is airing the year of the Olympics.

>>153084379
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>>153086543
>the reason the 1/1 Gundam is being taken down is so it can be modified to deliver the torch
It would be dope.

>>153084696
actually yeah. I remember it being in a block of animes along with Cyborg Kuro-chan, and Rantaro. Though they only aired 2 episodes each day so they can only air two animes per day.

I mean the prime minister of Japan came out dressed like mario I'm sure Nintendo's characters will be involved in some capacity

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>>153084379
I hope they change the Mahos. The Kirakiras are much cuter.

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>Goku
>olympic ambassator
>literally killed trillions of people in the last saga

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>not using the best and most iconic precures

why

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>>153086110
Too lewd for Olympics, they don't want to make a commotion by making her ambassador.

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>Petty

i thought it was hilarious when pikachu was japans world cup mascot and he should definitely be the face of the olympics because hes best known to the rest of the world. if i had to pick one from those ambassadors id go luffy.

>>153084379
the keion bu

>>153088777
Pikachu is above on the mascot hierarchy.
It goes like:
Mario, Doraemon, Tsubasa and Pikachu>>>>> The guys on the OP.

>tfw you want to show off the rest of your culture but the rest of the world only knows about anime

>>153084634
/a/ doesn't realize how popular yokai watch is.

>>153084379
>Who would you have chosen?

Not anime, that's for sure.

>>153089022
Neither does /v/, /vg/ and other boards,
As a matter of fact, no one does, because it is not. Only the first game was, the other are flopping compared to the first, while pokemon is doing better on gen 7 than 6.
The anime was nothing special, either.

>>153089022
/a/ should watch more Youkai Watch. Yuuki Aoi as Inaho is hilarious.

>>153089122
Literally every ten year old boy in America watches yokai watch man. They have dedicated toy aisles at Target.

The world is going to experience retardedly loud battle screaming and fully realize how autistic Japan is.

I can't wait for the news anchors to try and report on this shit with a straight face.

>>153086938
But that would be encouraging obesity.

>>153089022
Dude, Yokai Watch isn't nearly as popular now as it was when it was first coming out. Surely you don't think it will even be as relevant as the other shows on this pic by 2020?

They really should have used Yu-Gi-Oh in my opinion

So /a/, what is your own version about that?

mine

Doraemon
RX-78-2 Gundam
Naruto
Astro Boy
Sailor Moon
Love Live / Idolm@ster
Guts of Berserk
Goku

They couldn't get fucking pokemon?

>>153089457
>>153088971
He's a host, aka has a more important role tahn an embassator.

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>2020 Olympics
>No Kaneda
God damn it Elevens, get your shit together.

>>153089408
>Love Live / Idolm@ster
>Guts of Berserk
Be realistic son.

>Bleach snubbed

kek, this amuses me

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I got an ambassador for you

>>153089758

At least Ranma's an athlete

>>153086982
Literally who? I recognize the ones in the OP, but don't recognize these ones.

I don't watch that shit though, just fap to it.

>>153089758
Literally who?
Best boy

>>153089758
No we can't have the tumblrites flooding the stands.

Tokyo 2020 are going to be the best Olympic Games ever

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>>153089758

>having to explain to the world what gender-bender is

I approve

>>153084600
This, Oreimo would make more sense than any of the other series in OP.

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If she can be a spokeswoman for voting, why not the Olympics?

>>153084379
Genuinely surprised that Yugi's not on there. "King of Games" and all that, I'm pretty sure Yu-Gi-Oh is popular enough.

>>153090891
Maybe in 2005.

>>153084696
He's big in asia and thanks to Netflix is getting big in the west too.

>>153084379
I haven't fully thought this through, but one person I would have chose would be Domon.

>>153085746
funny

>>153089408
>guts
I don't think Japan want's a cuckhold representing them.

I don't know if I want to laugh or cry at all the american anime fans showing their ignorance.

>>153084379
>youkai watch
>no pokemon
THE FUCk

>>153086982
>>153086938
They would use specific precure, I guess. I expect 2020 precure to be /sp/ Pretty Cure with a focus on sports.

Nips have shit taste. What else is new?

>>153090891
Yami Yugi cheated all the fucking time though

IIRC They chose mascots that would really pull in younger audiences. This criteria makes more sense though. If they chose sports related mascots it would catch the attention of a crowd thats probably going to watch the olympics since its well, sports.

>>153084379
That merchandise is horrible.

Desu I actually like the mascots, they cover every bases and have some importance. Gundam is missing but it will evidently be part of something. Youkai Watch is surprising but I don't care about stuff for young boys so I have no idea about it.

>>153091579
Well, I guess Yokai Watch might have an advantage in Japan since they're based on actual Japanese legends, so in a way it's not just a game, but Japanese culture in general.

>>153084379

I want goku but he should be young from 23 tenkaichi tournament.

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>>153084662

>tfw no one remembers you when talking about sports anime

>>153084634

Pikachu is part of the official mascot team.

>>153090277
Good luck explaining her to the rest of the world.

>No Char
>No Asuka
Shit mascots. Kill yourselves, Olympic Committee.

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I'm hoping that they somehow include OPM in some way since Saitama is literally all about Fitness and the Saitama City is relatively close to Tokyo. They could do something like him running over for a sale or to find strong opponents in the Olympics

>>153084696

>Use to visit my grandparents in Spain when I was little
>All they had on the children's channels was Crayon Shin-chan

yes anon, some of us grew up watching Shin-chan & Asterix/Obelix in my case.

>petty cure
precure thread must change it`s name to pecure thread.

>>153084696
Italy here, it was a regular daily show for many years
i hated it when i was a kid though, i started appreciating it only recently

>>153089758
What would happen to the child if she got pregnant and genderbended?

Where is Shinji?

>No gundam
>No Takahashi Rumiko character
Its shit.

>>153084379
>Astroboy.
One of the first known modern animes, the grandpappy of them all, makes sense.

>Sailor moon.
The first magical girl that defined the genre as we know it now, also makes sense.

>Shin-chan.
Ok, with this one i have some problems, isnt shin an asshole, who likes to fuck with his parents and show his ass a la ace ventura?

>One piece.
I guess the series represents what modern manga and anime CAN be, nice adventures for all family to read, but luffy as an olympic representative? not sure...

>Naruto
Inb4 'a gateway of theworst kind', actually makes sense from a character standpoint, after all, isnt part of the point of the olympics, to bring out the best of everyone and triumph thru honest to god effort? thats what naruto's character basically is!

>Yo-kai watch.
Worldwide appeal, just like pokemon was. not really meaningful.

>Dragonball
Kinda the same as Naruto (barring whatever DBS is doing with Goku's character,) Goku can be a good example of someone who triumphs over adversity thru effort, training, courage and preparation.

>Pretty cure:
Just like Sailor moon wrote the book on magical girls, the cures have been improving it over the last 12 or so years, and its not gonna end soon. tho, they should have went with futari wa instead of maho, although if that means a maho sequel in 2020, then im all for it.

>>153084600
Fighting is the only real sport.

>>153084379
>They're still trying to push yokai trash

>only 3 years until normies invade Japan en-masse and SJWs get loli banned

>>153084379
If I don't see Joe when boxing rolls around I'm gonna be pretty upset.

>>153089987
>wanting the the fake transgender wierdos to identify with Ranma
No please. Let's keep the Olympics as mainstream as possible

WHERE'S TIGER MASK????

>>153089022
Pokemon is an international phenomenon.

>>153084696
The best way to watch Shin-chan is with its dub either way.

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where the FUCK is he?

>>153098987
what sport though?

>>153084379
>having a mental madman as a mascot
Bravo Japan.

>>153084990
>Yugioh becomes official Olympic game in Japan 2020

>>153084379
Is Anpanman a host?

I just hope that Muse/Aqours will get to perform the opening ceremony.

Wouldn't Ippo have been an obvious choice?

>>153095046
she stays locked in girl-mode until the baby is out

>4chans fav animes get BTFO
>Get the fuck out of my olympic!

>>153094657

OPMfags are truly cancerous. We already have Goku we don't need his shitty ripoff.

>>153099052

Longinus vault

>>153084696
everyone knows him in asia retard

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>>153084379
>two characters that wouldn't pass the drug test as ambassadors.
IT FINE WHEN JAPAN DOES IT

>>153084379
The Olympics is gonna be hell can't imagine all the third worlders not following train etiquette

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>not even using /sp/ series characters for Olympics ambassadors

Man, all those series about baseball and soccer and bicycling must feel really embarrassed they've never even produced one recognizable character.

sadly kendo isn't an olympic recognized sport.

>>153101119
I believe the main hosts for the event will be Mario, Doraemon, and Captain Tsubasa.

>>153084379
where's love live?

>>153099052
Mecha battle.

>no Ambassador Magma

>>153084379
Its perfect.

>>153101242
How is that going to work? Does mario host whole thing?

>>153101119
>sadly kendo isn't an olympic recognized sport.
Isn't that because Japan wants to keep it Japanese?

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>>153100815
Next you're going to say you're only pretending to be retarded

>>153085111
??

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>no Tsubasa
>the best football player in history and world champions with Japan


>>153084764
>Pikachu as host
>mfw "pika pikapi pi piiiiiiiiiika :3" and Doreamon "that's right, Pikachu-kun"
That will totally not be awkward. Top of the cake will be Mario go there with "YAAHOOO" and more weird noises and then Sonic with engrish voissu actingu

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>>153097727
They're already starting to die out little by little. Besides, isn't loli already banned?

>>153101119
>/sp/ series
Yuru Yuri?

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>>153104617
>isn't loli already banned?

No. Also, female Jap artists sent a letter to the U.N. feminazi's to kindly fuck off and leave their precious loli/shota doujins alone.

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>>153106023

Shit wrong image.

>haha look at us we're japan the only thing of value we have is anime and manga!!

Don't they see how cringe this is?

>>153086843
Nope, that was it. Nintendo has worldwide appeal but it's popularity has been waning in Japan for decades.

>>153107947
>>>/v/

>>153084696
The ambassadors are meant more to involve the people of Japan in with the Olympics, so they're generally more iconic to those who live there than the rest of the world.

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>>153107913
I wouldn't say that just yet.

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>>153084600
Heroes we need.

>no Gundam characters
>no motherfucking Joe Yabuki, the greatest character in sports anime/manga

It's shit.

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Expect to see more BBC anti-waifu articles.

>>153108389
I hated their anti-loli article.

>>153108389
What's funny about the UK is they do barely anything in the way of stopping the real shit from happening until it's too late. Lolis aren't your issue you fucking idiots.

>>153095205
>wan PISS FAG

>>153086945
He triple checked to make sure none had athletic potential first though.

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>>153108494

>>153109026
That did make me laugh. Also I was a little embarrassed to be able to recognise some of the characters in the pictures they had.

I don't even know anyone who likes lolis IRL.

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I dunno if that's going to change, people barely know anything about anime to begin with, and everyone jokes about the game shows and idol stuff anyway.
These people still find those that are aroused by armpits and stockings weird, everything has to be all plain and professional, with close ups of man ass and swearing every five seconds.

>>153109504
>These people still find those that are aroused by stockings weird
I can't believe it. Is there really anyone in the world who doesn't have a fetish for stockings, garterbelts or similar legwear?
How does that even work?

>>153110390
I have a fetish for stuffy tights and stockings.

>>153110390
People are boring assholes that have no imagination. Like, not even impregnation or defloration vanilla, just basic intercourse.