{"id":38330,"date":"2022-09-27T22:22:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T05:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=38330"},"modified":"2024-10-06T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T23:44:04","slug":"animec13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/animec13\/","title":{"rendered":"Animec<\/em> No. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1.<\/span> A Midsummer Night’s…Dream<\/h2>\n

2.<\/span> Summer love doesn’t last!? Don’t complain, don’t complain. That’s not good enough! Let’s get drunk all night long…<\/p>\n

3.<\/span> All over Japan, there are festivals and people everywhere… What did you see there?<\/p>\n

4.<\/span> The enthusiastic Yamato<\/em> fans plus the rabble wait patiently for the results<\/p>\n

5.<\/span> The big screen coldly announces the winner<\/p>\n

6.<\/span> “Yay!! I won” I’m so happy my glasses slip off<\/p>\n

7.<\/span> “Mom!” “Good job, son”<\/p>\n

8.<\/span> Good for you
\n…The Susumu standee at the venue says nothing<\/p>\n

The lottery…<\/h3>\n

I thought that the only things that would attract a crowd even if it was raining would be horse racing and bargain sales, but my preconceptions were blown away by the experience of this day…<\/p>\n

On June 29th, more than 15,000 fans packed into the Be Forever Yamato<\/em> lottery, held at the Shinjuku Station East Exit Square in Tokyo, to recruit crew members for the Space Battleship Yamato Adventure Roman<\/em> voyage. Unfortunately, it was raining that day, and a group of umbrella-wielding bats gathered in front of the station, or rather, infested it.<\/p>\n

My friend A, who accompanied me, said with wide eyes, “The only time this many people gathered in my town was ten years ago for the mayoral election. No, it’s a hundred times that. Tokyo is an amazing city.” (After all, he had only arrived at Ueno Station two hours before, and it was his first time in Tokyo.)<\/p>\n

Even with all of these people, only 500 could go on the voyage. That’s a 30-to-1 ratio. If you were chosen, then even Keio University Medical School was not a dream for you! Every time the winning numbers were displayed on the big screen, a cheer would erupt, and when all the numbers were displayed, the winners let out a roar.<\/p>\n

As soon as Nishizaki took the microphone and said something, an enormous cheer erupted. I thought to myself, \u201cWhat amazing popularity. As expected…\u201d But it turned out that it was because those who didn’t win were given a movie ticket in exchange for their lottery ticket. So, I went to the exchange booth where the winners lined up, smiling and drooling, clutching 3,000 yen. After all, it was a 50,000 yen trip for only 3,000 yen. The winners’ hearts were already crossing the ocean to Kyushu… and they kept saying, “It’s like a dream!”<\/p>\n

Good for them…<\/p>\n

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