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Steal this poster! 4 people arrested trying to ninja Kara no Kyoukai ads


8:00 PM on 08.07.2009
Steal this poster! 4 people arrested trying to ninja Kara no Kyoukai ads photo



It's almost a given that anything that's worth stealing will have someone around looking to steal it, but I still find it somewhat odd that people would go off to nab mere posters. 

Four people, their ages ranging from twenty to over sixty were arrested while attempting to take down the posters, which were advertising the latest Kara no Kyoukai movie as well as Tokushima prefecture's famous Awa Odori dance festival (yet another example of signage doing double duty). They explained that it had been written in the newspapers that the posters would likely be valuable to the otaku market, with only six hundred being printed.

While posters are cool and all, I don't think that being rare automatically makes something valuable. I mean, the poster (or the anime it advertises) could suck, after all. Then again, Kara no Kyoukai seems no stranger to attempted theft. If nothing else, I hope the thieves were using techniques that would preserve the poster's quality once removed. Tracing along the lines, maybe?

Hit the gallery for pictures of the poster, as well as other interesting Kara no Kyoukai pictures I found floating through the intertubes.

 

Steal this poster! 4 people arrested trying to ninja Kara no Kyoukai ads photo
Steal this poster! 4 people arrested trying to ninja Kara no Kyoukai ads photo
Steal this poster! 4 people arrested trying to ninja Kara no Kyoukai ads photo
Steal this poster! 4 people arrested trying to ninja Kara no Kyoukai ads photo
Steal this poster! 4 people arrested trying to ninja Kara no Kyoukai ads photo





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I love the new artwork for the novel reprints.


Just sayin'.
if i were stealing the posters, i'd do it with better planning

something like buying pylons and sectioning off the area to make it look authentic, pack up and leave to another predetermined random location

i'd also have peeps keeping look-out on streets and keep in walkie-talkie communications. required staff: 3 people to extract posters, 2 people to pack up the pylons, 4 people to keep look-out in major locations and one get-away driver (2 cars required; one for the scouts and one for the poster-nabbers)

i don't ninja. i downright pillage. and i do it with organization.

i mean assuming that each poster is worth 200 bucks a pop on the net, we can make like 20 bucks each person, and assuming that we can nab 6-7 posters an hour, the profit's looking pretty decent even with split rewards
I would be more sympathetic if they were fans themselves.

While the poster is pretty, the other pictures are cooler. Although, since it is a different kind of image, maybe that would make it more collectable?

@fission2: Wow. Although, I would rather put that effort into a real job.
1. The fact that the newspaper said they'd be valuable should have sent up red flags immediately. Stupid move altogether.

2. As a KnK fan, I can say it's hard as hell to find KnK posters PERIOD, let alone large ones, so they probably would be worth something even stolen sadly.

3. Boooo! bad Chokushi no Magan joke. Besides, if you used that, you'd end up killing it's existence and it'd break into dust.

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