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Photo of “melted” anime figure is an important reminder about summertime otaku merch safety

Beloved anime cat Doraemon appears as a pile of blue goo.

The last weekend in March decided to give Japan an early preview of summertime weather, with scorching sunshine baking the country with high temperatures. It was so hot that we ended up eating our ramen cold (an unusual experience that we highly recommend), but eating cooling foods isn’t an option for inanimate objects like anime figures, obviously.

And so Japanese Twitter users were shocked when they saw this photo @taco_handmade of anime’s most famous robot cat, Doraemon, lying in a liquidy puddle.

▼ “It’s so hot…
He’s going to melt…
He melted!”

暑い…
溶ける……

＿人人人人人人＿
＞　溶けてる　＜
￣Y^Y^Y^Y^Y￣ pic.twitter.com/R7y8x1ZJO2

— 魚介ヶ原たこ (@taco_handmade) May 26, 2019

@taco_handmade’s photos were quickly retweeted over 100,000 times, no doubt thanks to the bizarre mix of comedy and tragedy at seeing a beloved childhood icon reduced to a thin layer of sludge. However, it turns out that while it was indeed hot last weekend, it wasn’t that hot, because @taco_handmade later sent a follow-up tweet revealing that…

のわーーーどうしためっちゃバズってるぞ！！？
えとこれはドラえもんのプラモと、ダイソーのジェルスライムを使っております！
でもほんとここ数日こうなってもおかしくないぐらい暑いから、みんな熱中症対策ちゃんとしましょね！！！
今日みたいな蒸し暑いのが一番危険っていうから…！ pic.twitter.com/BX1h97b4ob

— 魚介ヶ原たこ (@taco_handmade) May 26, 2019

…this Doraemon’s body had never been truly solid in the first place. @taco_handmade actually had purchased a tub of “Mysterious Goop” play gel from 100 yen shop Daiso, matching the color of Doraemon’s blue body, and combined it with the hard plastic facial features, stomach, hands, and feet from a Doraemon model kit, while leaving the model’s blue body pieces unused.

▼ If the Twitter handle wasn’t enough of a hint, these photos of some of her other creations show that @taco_handmade is pretty good at arts and crafts.

それから宣伝していいって聞いたから！わたし普段はビーズやレース編んだりプラモ組んだりしておりまして、もし手芸模型その他おもろいもん好きでこいつ気があうなっておもたら、ぜひフォローくださいお友達になりまそ！
くそうミンネ再開しとけばよかったー！←商魂
ええもん作りに精進しますw pic.twitter.com/1yR27dPN5X

— 魚介ヶ原たこ (@taco_handmade) May 26, 2019

So really, it’s not that @taco_handmade’s Doraemon model melted, but rather that she simply hasn’t put it together yet. That said, it actually is possible for anime figures to melt from extreme heat (as we learned last year), so if you’ve got any 3-D decorations of your favorite 2-D characters, you might want to keep them away from the window during the summer months.

Source: Twitter/@taco_handmade via Golden Times
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