An otaku bar located in the city of Kochi, capital of the Kochi Prefecture in Japan… Anime, manga, current and retro video games, card games, etc. A place where you can immerse yourself in nostalgia and have a few drinks while reminiscing about the old days playing video games. This is how the FreeGate establishment is described, which in the last hours went viral on social networks in Japan for a post on Twitter about the theft of a scale figure of Kimetsu no Yaiba, which expressed the following:
“For the person who came last time. Please return the Nezuko Kamado figure that was placed in our establishment, in the red circle marked in the photograph. If it is not returned by the end of November, we will file a report with the police as a crime of theft, which should concern you since we have your face recorded with security cameras. "
先日お越しくださった男性の方へ。
— freegate friend game tent (@freegate20181) October 31, 2020
赤丸部分に置いてあった禰豆子のフィギュアを当店まで返還してください。
11月中に返還されない場合は、顔と手に取っている防犯カメラの映像を持って警察へ窃盗罪として被害届を出させて頂きます。 pic.twitter.com/huQyCFIhE9
The post on Twitter generated enormous popularity on networks, reaching more than 5,000 retweets in Japan and more than 4,500 likes in just 16 hours. So far there has been no update on the situation, so it is presumed that the product has not been returned.
However, it should be mentioned that not all users are sharing the publication to help the suspect find out about the matter and return the figure of Nezuko, since some others doubt the veracity of the situation and consider that they are only doing it to replicate the events of the Onsen no Mori in Yamanashi Prefecture and gain popularity.
It turns out that at the Onsen no Mori hot spring complex, located in Yamanashi Prefecture, all the volumes of the Kimetsu no Yaiba manga were stolen at the end of September. The complex conducted a network campaign for the thief to return the products, which in the end he ended up doing. However, the virality in networks of the situation ended up greatly boosting the popularity of the establishment.
Whether it is true or not, we will only have to wait for the Twitter account to publish an update on this situation. Koyoharu Gotouge began the publication of the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in February 2016 and ended it in May 2020.
Source: Twitter
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