
Haruhi is now the official mascot character of the Beijing Olympics. Kind of. It looks like a text book that teaches primary school children all about the Olympics. Thanks to Shin Asuka for sending this in via EnjoyKorea.
NOw I really start to hate the Olympic his year
Its.. kinda badly drawn... but kewl nonetheless
Typical China...
That is just a pure rip-off, I reckon.
lol! That's soo lame... ROFL XD
As much as i love china, I agree and Im willing to bet that's another ripoff like the many found in china lol
WTF!!!! She is no Haruhi, she is Hahiru, just look at the uniform, it has strips in the chest
That guy looks fat! xD
Is that Kyon?
Big belly = prosperity? ^^;
Then I'm way overdue for a windfall.
LOL China's reverse engineering. If spacenoids were to invade earth with mobile suits in the future, I bet China will be the first country to attempt their own imitation mobile suit project as a counter.
Moreover they have ripped off russian space-suit already! I saw that on our tv yesterday.
Maybe they'll rip off the Soyuz Rocket too.. Though they had been "legally Ripping off" Russian/Ukrainian aircraft like Antonov and Sukhoi designs.
well at least we can survive long enough to create a proper countermeasure.
Yeah, cuz' the China-made mobile suits have exploding batteries.
Wait- I thought the batteries were "Sold separately"? D:
Batteries are always included. Last time I bought a no brand China-made walkie talkie, it came with batteries that looked like Duracell without any brands. I replace em' with Energizer batteries, for safety reasons.
China never fails to amaze me.
Ugh, it's a disgrace.
China will grow larger... by copying
By Haruhi-sama's grace, we now have the hearts and minds of the Chinese.
LOL
They're all lumpy! Poor fake-Haruhi, she's so badly drawn. Can't the Chinese make up their own lumpy characters? Or better yet, hire competent artists for a NATIONAL handbook?
*Nods* It's insane they are paid (if they are) to draw things that ugly.
mavadotar & D_Blade, this is kinda subjective. beauty is in the eye of the beholder. every artists has their own style of drawing so i think it's not nice to criticise their style. yes i agree if compared to the real deal, this copycat haruhi looks inferior. but lets assume that if haruhi doesn't exist, in my opinion this girl doesn't look that badly drawn at all.
Yes gordon, but still, her expression leaves me uncomfortable, it was almost as if she wanted to stick her tongue at you for some reason (no ero allusions, please)...
I can't help comparing "beauty" in this case to a pointed stick.
No kidding. What kind of artist would steal other's works? I mean thats obviously a Haruhi-ish pose.
This is a poor rip off of Haruhi. It's bootleg Haruhi...It's just real sad though...
China never fails to amaze me...with their blatant attempts at pirating all the intellectual property of the world, cool or lame.
I can imagine them publishing the same stuff but with different anime characters for every event ^^ Raito Yagami for the swimming events?
if that was a genuine attempt at creating an original character, i applaud them. if they copied that from haruhi, SCREW WHOEVER SUGGESTED THIS TO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT!
Looks like the days of representations of rosy cheeked devotees of Chairman Mao waving red books are over. Same artist though.
OK, i know i'm a chinese, but SCREW THIS!!! PHACK U OLYMPIC DESIGNER, CURSE U TO THE DEEPEST OF HELL they always think anime is only for child (seeing how they dub it) yet now they use CHILDISH STUFF FOR PHACKEN MASCOT!!! GO PHACK YOURSELF not that i'm haruhi fan boy, but this insult is just OUTRAGEOUS and UNFORGIVEABLE
You've been pretty excited those past days... Cool down my friend. Being rude won't change a thing (alas).
NERD RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!
No Shin, this is the soul of a completely devoted servant to Haruhism. Scary when released in pure form, ready to engulf its enemies in a wave of pure energy, eh?
nah, i'm not into haruhi-ism i'm not even like the anime much, not hate it though but haruhi have been otaku icon lately, while ppl in beijing (the government) seem to think otaku are childish and stupid ppl but yet they use it for their mascot, don't lick your own spit a-hole!
My mistake then.
hendrik, whats a "spit a-hole?"
I read that as "don't lick your own spit, a-hole." Was that it Hendrik? Still don't get it, but it's more grammatically correct that way.
Well, it was either that or a panda with a gun.
I almost burst out laughing really hard when I saw this! LOL!!! but it is rather late at night now so :P
FAILED! http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/50/84760594we2.jpg
Whenever I see that olympic logo I always think of this...
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL CAN"T STOP LAUGHING XDDDD U'RE KILLING ME XDDDDDDD
Can't unsee it.
AHAHAHAHA! Looks exactly like something they would do... bet the dead guy paid for the bullets himself.
lmao
The figure is out now, retailing for 3,800 yen. ^^ http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2222008183&size=o
Nice attempt, but I could see something alien (aka unimpressive shoppage). Sorry. ^^;
haha its ok, i know im bad at photoshop
Oh, it was yours...
i wasnt making it to be perfect, i just wanted to see what it'd look. but i'll delete it if its that big of a deal.
Noooooo~ What did I do, what did I say? Why had it to turn out like that? (Half-joking tone)
This totally burns off the cute Haruhi image that is in my mind. What a turn off...
Man... those guys in China seriously need to be sued...
I laughed when I first saw this awhile back. China does so much ripoff, it's not so funny sometimes.
O boy China....*Is kind of ashamed to be chinese* *facepalms*
Copy + paste = China
Haha, more like, Copy + Paste + Distort = China
China really loves copypasta. China will grow through cloning lolz XDDD
this reminded me that i once almost got conned into buying a bootleg haruhi figure. luckily i decided to buy from HLJ instead of from ebay in the end. Did some research and found out that the seller always sells bootleg haruhi
i don't think chinese school girls wear such short skirt to school. right? ('~')
i think haruhi became more uglier then ever in this picture....
Hi guys, i am sorry but i am a PRC chinese and I apologize for what the people here did, as a software engineer, i understand the importance of respect and protection of Intellectual Property, and i believe many of chinese with good education and independent-mind also understood that. It's real a shame to steal other people's belongings and therefore resulting in a bad image and reputation of the whole nation. However to this specific case i have to defend a bit for the government,(even though i hate this autocratic government badly, --this is another political issue) this is actually not a official mascot of the Beijing Olympic. this is just a cover of a regional textbook, and I guess not every officer that censor this book are aware of Haruhi (Not an excuse though, but at least it's all too untrue to say this is a official mascot of Beijing Olympic Games) english is my 2nd language, so i am afraid i cant express my feeling freely, but i don't mean to fight, just want to let you know that not every chinese are copycat. Don't too harsh or demanding to this country which is in developing...
well said and i agree with you 100%
I agree as well, and I'm sure the people here don't blame the Chinese as a whole; just the person who gave the order to put it on the textbook.
I'm glad you said something. Some people are too quick to say something accusing, rather than looking at the whole truth. This whole deal is getting way out of hand. I know that illustration is a full on copy, but I saw it as an attention grabber, something popular to get the readers attention, not something against any of the Haruhi fans. Though, many would, and do find that illustration offensive.
noooooooooo!! who told that guy/girl that he/she knows how to draw??
Now I know that I want to cry. But I know Haruhi would hate me for crying over this instead of betting mad. However, I'm not in a violent mood right now so I'll just leave it without comment....
Really curious, but only a poor fake for the greatest being of this world...
omg.....this is sooooooo(forgot the word)........omgomgomg i could even draw better than that(last time i was trying to draw an akuma, but then my friend thought it was Ichigo Kurosaki)
Seriously China, what in the world is this?
Uhh kinda pissing me off the way people are saying that because of this all Chinese people are bootlegging pirates. Comments like leave it to the Chinese and the fact that Chinese are stealing people's ideas and stuff like that just lowers the standard of tolerance... Don't let the acts of a few individuals reflect on a society as a whole...
*Nods* Generalizing and flaming never helps.
Poorly drawn imitation AND she is missing her armband! Haruhi must have her armband!
Okay, let's play seven differences game now. ^^; Are you readyyyyyy~? LOL
Thank you china and copyright infringement...
crappy to the max!!!
Don't China and HK have there own artists? Why not get some dude who does "Yeah-Kou" (Wild Mushroom or something)? There are other good artists with great art... >.> China do have manga styled artists the last time I went to a manga panel... >.>;; Shame they got a phaggot to do the job for a measily 30 dollar or something. I'm very dissapointed with what China is becoming lately.. (well.. ever since actually). At least their Olympic Logo is better than the UK 2012 olympic logo...
ugly -_-
Muhaha... She is unofficially called "Suzumiya Harbin"! (^^) http://www.new-akiba.com/archives/2008/01/post_13737.html
This just deepened my hate for china :)
O...kay, I'm a Malaysian Chinese and after looking at that poorly drawn Haruhi rip-off, I'm gonna.... Excuse me, I'm gonna throw out!!! UEEEKKK!
Haruhi shows up in the strangest of places these days...
Haruhi also went in Palestine way back in 2006 or 2005 iirc :)
Haruhi become Beijing Olympics ???
Somewhat amusing.
Japan do Olympics mascot surely will not be Haruhi... And one thing don't underestimate the Chinese because they monopolizing the economy NOW and TOMORROW. Just now the 'Chinese' that draw that design really suks la but not all Chinese SUKS!!! tat designer better put Fu Wa than Haruhi because that is the main MASCOT!! BEIBEI JINGJING HUANHUAN YINGYING NINI
Haruhi and Kyon look......bad................as everyone agrees here...
cool but badly drawn needs to be 3-d or something.