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Real life nice boat

kotonohadaro.jpgA motorboat race was held in commemoration of Katsura Kotonoha’s birthday on the 6th of January during the 26th Toda kyoutei gold cup daily sports competition. The commentator also says the race is dedicated to Katsura “Kotoha” who loves boats and that she will hopefully be happy with Makoto forever.

It costs 10,000 yen (90 USD) to sponsor a race at Toda kyoutei and you get to have the race title of your liking together with a message by the commentator, so somebody had put his money to good use.

A video of the race is available on nicovideo

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8 Responses to “Real life nice boat”

  1. Moogy Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Nice boat.

  2. Kurogane Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 11:34 am

    That’s some money well spent there.

  3. Terry Bogard Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Just a theory… Seems the commentator read 言葉 on his/her cue card and didn’t know about the name’s actual prounounciation. Sigh!

  4. wildarmsheero Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    I love you Japan

  5. Tyrenol Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    Sick bastards. And I’m one of the sicker bastards out. Arrgh!

    Welcome home.

  6. Mouser2 Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 11:27 am

    So is “kotonoha” an uncommon pronunciation of 言葉 or something? I don’t see how the announcer would have known to pronounce it “kotonoha” instead of “kotoha.” Oh well, at least viewers got some laughs out of it.

  7. Hinano Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    Rofl ;D This is awesome

  8. Zotmeister Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    Nice boat race. - ZM

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