Searching for Mickey at China’s fake Disneyland
Enka signer Nezumi Senpai visited Beijing recently on a quest to meet the fake Mickey Mouse at Shijingshan Amusement Park:
Upon entering the park gates, he asked some mascots where he could find fake Mickey Mouse, and he was told that Mickey was somewhere else inside the amusement park. Nezumi Senpai was distracted by fake Doraemon toys and a Cinderella with facial hair, but he managed to keep asking staff where he could find the fake Mickey. Unlike the staff members he asked earlier, these people told him there was no fake Mickey Mouse at the park.
Security soon learns about what he’s been doing, and angry security guards show up and start yelling at them not to take video. He tries to run away, but when he attempts to question other performers about Mickey Mouse, security shows up and orders them to shut up and tell nothing to Nezumi Senpai. A crowd of park workers surrounds Nezumi Senpai and his cameraman, angrily shouting at them and accusing Japan of spreading negative news and lies about the park. The cameras are turned off, and Nezumi Senpai is thrown out of the amusement park.
Unable to meet the fake Mickey Mouse, they returned to Japan disappointed. However, it is unlikely that they would have encountered a fake Disney character, since the worldwide attention brought upon the park last year caused them to clean things up and remove Disney stuff from the park. I wouldn’t be surprised if this TV show deliberately told Nezumi Senpai to aggressively interrogate park employees with the aim of filming footage of security kicking him out. It would definitely provide more drama than finding out that there was no more fake Mickey Mouse.
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china spreads negative news and lies about themselves all on their own. nobody needs to do it for them.
Ahahah he’s not afraid to yell in Japanese in a country that truly hates Japan… !
What a great example of Japanese media intentionally acerbating inter-Asiatic conflicts. If they had encountered “fake Mickey”, what would that have done for Japan?
How about focusing on the much more urgent domestic issue of Harajuku wares which have an immediate impact (however minor) on the Japanese economy? How are the reactions of the security guards (in an amusement park…) any more disturbing than the recent actions of the Japanese police (a government agency…) dispersing a potential protest against Aso Taro?
This program is clearly just an attack ad.
Every nation has media that exacerbates* international tension.
Sure, there are certainly more important topics to report, but they are by no means exlusively domestic. Try the melanine hazard. By comparison, this is small peas among what one might consider to be “anti-China”.
At first I didn’t like Nezumi’s exaggerated comments and behaviours in the park, but the Chinese staff workers sounded like they wanted to bite his head off… The part where they said “We don’t welcome Japanese” was so racist.
Film commercially without a permit in the “real” Disneyland and you’ll get the same reaction from security.
I saw a later bit of that show (is that Makiko Deluxe male or female?) where they had two people driving around looking for hidden listening devices (they found one at a love ho, but skipped that) and ended up at a private home where they found one in the daughter’s bedroom which the father had planted, but I didn’t quite understand why.
Skip forward to today, and in Moriguchi city some woman stabbed her daughter then tried to top herself (or so it appears) muttering something about a hidden listening device.
That dude sounds like some sales man for the Disney Empire.