Posted by Fuangping
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The “evangelionized” LAWSON suddenly stopped its campaign activity on 25th April, which was originally supposed to continue by 17th May. The companies in charge proclaimed. It was because of chaos around the Hakone city in which the convenience store was located. With traffic congestion and noise, or other bad manners, people coming the store (almost all of them otaku) had disturbed the locals. In day & night, all day, the store was always packed with otaku customers, on the other hand, conflicts between customer and the locals had happened around the place. Comments on 2channel are following:

・You guys again?
・Not “Angels attack” but “Otaku Attack” huh?
・It’s predictable.
・It reminded me of the power of Evangelion.


I intended to go there in Golden Week...



＜日本語ver＞
「エヴァンゲリオン化」していたローソン「第３新東京市」支店が突如4月25日16時を持って閉店することが決まってしまった。元々期間限定のキャンペーン企画ではあったが、5月17日まではやる予定であった。原因は会場周辺の混乱。車の渋滞や騒音公害など、来店者の近隣住民への迷惑。昼夜を問わず、店は常に来店者が絶えずその周辺では多くの地元の人々と顧客のトラブルが起こっていたようだ。２ちゃんねるのコメントでは「またおまえらか」「使徒襲来じゃなくてオタク襲来かよ」などの呆れた内容のコメントが散見された。
ゴールデンウィークに行きたかったのに。。。