CATDOLL: This year's pain-ema is still as good as ever. Enjoy the New Year's "pain-ema" at Kanda Shrine, the holy place for otaku

Happy New Year everyone! Although the weather in Japan has been very cold these days, the Kanda Myojin Shrine in Akihabara, one of the traditional otaku holy places, still has many high-quality "pain-ema" this year. It is a tradition to look at the photo collection of pain-ema at this time of year. This year, the Kanda Shrine still has the majority of LL and Kancolle. It is worth mentioning that some netizens found the pain-ema drawn by Watanabe Akio himself!

The Pain Ema by Akio Watanabe, the animation director of Bakemonogatari

In Japan, there is a custom of hanging painted horses for blessings in shrines and temples during the New Year. As a special landscape, "painful painted horses" have attracted a lot of attention in recent years, and the number is increasing. The so-called "painful painted horses" refer to painted horses with ACG-related character patterns. In addition to Kanda Myojin Shrine, there are many shrines famous for painful painted horses. For example, Shirakawa Hachiman Shrine (Higurashi), Washinomiya Shrine (Lucky Star), Suwa Taisha (Eastern), Chichibu Shrine (That Flower), Oarai Isomae Shrine (Girls und Panzer, Kancolle), etc. In addition, this year Kanda Myojin Shrine has also confirmed the linkage with "LL", and there will be an event to sell LL-specific linkage painful painted horses.