3-D, free-to-touch anime boob standees take anime marketing into a new dimension【Photos】

”Feel free to touch the teachers…gently” invites anime production at convention in Tokyo.

It’s easy to imagine the marketing staff for upcoming anime Why the Hell Are You Here, Teacher? (titled Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!? In Japanese) being faced with a dilemma when planning the series’ booth for the recent Anime Japan convention at Tokyo’s Big Sight Venue. As its preview videos clearly show, the series is unabashedly part of the sexy schoolhouse shenanigans genre.

To promote the series, the anime’s booth at the convention featured life-size standees of its female characters, and you can probably see what the problem was going to be. Why the Hell Are You Here, Teacher? lives or dies by the appeal of its prodigiously (physically) developed cast, but cardboard cutouts, being boards, are perhaps the worst medium by which to convey comely curves and seductive spheres.

But then the designers realized they could make cardboard cutouts that look like this.

先生たちの横からの画像も上げておきますね。先生たちはお触り、自由です。優しくふれてほしいです。 #なんここ https://t.co/hBPhHHV0Ff

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TVアニメ『なんでここに先生が!?』公式＠4月7日放送開始！ (@nankoko_anime) March 24, 2019

That’s no trick of the light. Each of the four teachers from the anime had their breasts, and only their breasts, rendered in three-dimensional space.

｢なんでここに先生が！？｣のパネル。 あたまがわるい(誉め言葉)。 #AnimeJapan2019 #なんでここに先生が https://t.co/t8oMrp1DkO

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YOU2- (@you2_m) March 23, 2019

What’s more, the character’s chests weren’t crafted out of the same thick paper as the rest of their bodies. Instead, they were made of a soft and supple material, and the anime’s producers invited fans and admirers to “Feel free to touch the teachers.”

▼ They also added “We would like you to touch them gently,” wisely realizing that with over 100,000 attendees at Anime Japan, the anime educators’ breasts probably wouldn’t be able to withstand extra-forceful petting from all interested parties.

ついに明日はアニメジャパンですね！ アスミック・エースブースで先生たちと一緒にお待ちしております。「なんでここに先生が!?」の看板を目印にしてくださいね♫ #なんここ #アニメジャパン2019 https://t.co/VwYA1NO4AW

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TVアニメ『なんでここに先生が!?』公式＠4月7日放送開始！ (@nankoko_anime) March 22, 2019

There were also cosplayers dressed as the series’ icy school nurse Chizuru Tachibana and strict Japanese teacher Kana Kojma, though obviously with a strict look-but-don’t-touch rule in effect.

アニメジャパン2019 みったんさん(@mtn_cos) 4/7放送開始「なんでここに先生が⁉︎」の児島先生 アスミック・エース J23ブース #アニメジャパン #AnimeJapan #AJ2019 #コスプレ https://t.co/tb1j42y14U

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イソップ (@x_isp77_one) March 23, 2019

なんでここに先生が!?：立花千鶴 つんこさん（@Garterbelts_）　ありがとうございました #AnimeJapan2019 #AJ2019 https://t.co/QO1NoH7GBF

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ネズミ (@nezumi_sp) March 25, 2019

アスミック・エースブースにて なんでここに先生が！？のおっぱい付きパネル。キャラ名わかんないけど一番右の人のおっぱいめっちゃ自然ですごい… あと上野さんは不器用の上野さんの縞パン配ってた。「どうも〜パンツで〜す」って配っててめっち… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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オルト(‵▼∀・´) (@Alt_Sachilove) March 23, 2019

Why the Hell Are You Here, Teacher? is set to premiere on April 7, after which we’ll find out how effective its hands-on promotion was, and perhaps whether it’s the wave of the future of anime marketing.

Source: Twitter/@nankoko_anime via Hachima Kiko
Featured image: Twitter/@nankoko_anime
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