Tokyo 2020 Olympics Ambassadors Unveiled

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So these are your animu and mango ambassadors for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with possibly more on the way

Who would you have chosen?

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How about an anime character that actually plays a sport?

What the fuck's wrong with you Japan?

>yokai watch instead of pokemon
how

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

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>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

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

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

>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.

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

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Tsubasa is a host, which is more important than an ambassador.

No Gintoki?

I blame America for Naruto being there.

Spoonfeed me

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

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.

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Naruto's the number 4 bestselling manga ever.

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?

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

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

Where's my Gundamu?

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

Wait, no hentai character ambassador? Dropped.

Why do the ambassadors need to be from ongoing series?

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

Disgusting

it was a thing in spain for a long time

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

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

>No DIO edit

Merchandising

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

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.

She'll probably feature in the opening ceremony

>>/mlp/

>fully sentient Miku debuts at the opening cermony

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.

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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?

Yes.

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

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

Explain further.

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

Why Precure is there though?

Because girls can watch the Olympics too you sexist pig

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?

>Youkai instead of Pikachu

Yer mum

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

read the thread faggot

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

Me.

Where is Lala?

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.

But why Maho Precure? That ended last week.

>Worst Cures
It's shit

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

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

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

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

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

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

>not using the best and most iconic precures

why

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

>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.

the keion bu

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

Sup Forums doesn't realize how popular yokai watch is.

>Who would you have chosen?

Not anime, that's for sure.

Neither does Sup Forums, /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.

Sup Forums should watch more Youkai Watch. Yuuki Aoi as Inaho is hilarious.

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.

But that would be encouraging obesity.

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 Sup Forums, 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?

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

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

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

>Bleach snubbed

kek, this amuses me

I got an ambassador for you

At least Ranma's an athlete

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.

Literally who?
Best boy

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

Tokyo 2020 are going to be the best Olympic Games ever

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

I approve

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

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

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