Lose weight and get healthy with Nogawa Sakura
Health product manufacturers TANITA Corporation have come up with a novel way to get otaku off their butts and start exercising, in theory anyway. Their members-only Karada Karute (Body Chart) service is a 2-year course that uses a body composition meter, a pedometer and a special receiver device to record and transmit data about the user’s daily activity to a database via the Internet. Users will then be sent dietary advice based on the data, complete with funky graphs in order to monitor & manage their weight, body fat etc.
Come 16th February, you’ll be able to get your hands on a special limited edition model featuring seiyuu Nogawa Sakura (Nemu in Da Capo, Hina-Ichigo in Rozen Maiden) for the ultra-low price of ¥90,000. Yes, ninety-thousand yen (roughly US$1,000). Cheap price for losing that spare tyre methinks – the price tag includes the 24-month Karada Karute course that usually costs around ¥1,200 per month.
Anyway, only 20 of the machines are being made and there are 2 versions with ‘different’ voices (10 of each) so hardcore fans will want to fork out ¥180,000 to get both surely? They’re being sold on a first-come, first-serve basis although the window of sale has been set at 1 month (16th Feb-14th March) so maybe they’re not exactly expecting people to be lining up for the privilege to purchase the device. The receiver (on the left, pic above) also comes with a special Saku-nyan illustration.
Additionally, Nico Nico Douga are also on board for the venture, with promotion starting 9th Feb on TANITA’s official ComeSta Channel, where Nogawa already presents a health support programme.
Another in the long line of weird things that seiyuu find themselves participating in then. I don’t mean to be offensive, but it looks like Saku-nyan would do well to enroll on the program herself since she’s er… not exactly on the thin side. Not her face anyway. I seriously wouldn’t pay a thousand bucks just to hear a seiyuu screaming at me to get off my fat ass, not even if it was Inoue Marina or Mizuki Nana… though I might consider one with tsundere Kugimiya Rie screaming Bakax3! or Suigintou Tanaka Rie threatening to turn me into junk if I didn’t get my body fat down.
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News source on Kaden Watch
Karada Karute with Nogawa Sakura (site goes live Feb 13)
Karada Karute
Nogawa picture pinched from Seigura.com
Couldn’t agree more on the strange choice of using Sakunyan as their image seiyuu lol, unless of course she’s doing a before/after thing for them as part of the contract lol.
Need Wakamoto version though.
Hahaha Sakunyan telling you to lose weight.
It’s like asking Ueda Kana to tell you how to stop playing games. Or Itou Shizuka on how to reduce drinking. Or how to behave like a lady with Kobayashi Yuu.
Maybe a KobaYu version will work, one that won’t stop screaming until you actually work out.
Hahahaha, so perhaps this could ‘help’ some errr, slightly plump otakus, but what about those who are really skinny, like only having 1 meal per day?
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Yeah I will definitely lose weight after buying that machine regardless I use it or not. By the time I spent 1000USD for that machine…I don’t think I have any money left to buy any food. Starvation FTW! \o/
Maybe my eyes have been roaming around a little too much, but I think Sakunyan is… well….. Proportionate?
I can’t imagine a stick thin version. Its like telling me to look at photos of Tamura Yukari from 10 or 12 years ago when she’s still stick thin.
The health machine is very expensive!!!!! uh, I think Nogawa Sakura income is high.KUgimiya Rie is very thin.It’s like bone and skin.unhealthy.