Although some people are very aware that Elon Musk knows a thing or two about anime, some people actually find it hard to believe. Aside from the memes that Elon Musk posts and his knowledge of anime culture, there is evidence that the tech CEO could be a bit more involved than that.
Back in January of 2019, Elon Musk was spotted casually wearing a Kakegurui t-shirt! For those who don't know, this is a popular Japanese anime that Elon Musk seems to be following since he is wearing a t-shirt of this anime.
What is Kakegurui and how could Elon Musk enjoy this anime so much?
Kakegurui is a well known Japanese manga series that was previously written by Homura Kawamoto and was well illustrated by Toru Naomura. It started as the sensation known as Square Enix's Gangan Joker all the way back in March 2014.
A new prequel spin-off manga known as the Kakegurui Twin started serialization of the Gangan Joker back in September 2015. This anime television series adaptation by Mappa then aired all the way in Japan from some time in July all the way to September of 2017.
The live-action drama adaptation then later on aired in Japan back in 2018. A second season was then released titled Kakegurui ×× and aired back all the way in January to March of 2019.
In North America, the manga has then been licensed for a whole new English language release that was made by Yen Press. The anime series has also been licensed and also streamed by Netlix somewhere out of Japan.
Weeblon Musk or Elon-Chan?
In a series of Tweets, Elon Musk was really happy to reveal his love for a few anime and go beyond by expressing his desire to actually build a mecha! Elon Musk started off by Tweeting on October 14 that he really loved that Makoto Shinkai's well-known movie Your Name then, later on, expressed his love for Studio Ghibli movies like Spirited Away as well as Princess Mononoke.
Most people proceeded to respond by renaming him Weeblon Musk or even Elon-chan. Following these nicknames, he then replied by saying that it is finally "time to create a mecha".
Aside from those obvious technical challenges that are behind building something of this magnitude, what's pretty cool is that Elon Musk spelled mecha correctly. Also, if there's one person capable of creating a real-life mecha, that person would indeed be Elon Musk.
Elon Musk being spotted wearing a Kakegurui shirt as well as claiming that he wants to build a mecha certainly certifies just how much the tech CEO actually knows about anime and it's in no way disappointing.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo