Femisapien hits Japan as E.M.A.

Posted by Rob Beschizza, June 13, 2008 5:29 AM | permalink

How does one sell WowWee's Femisapien to foreign markets? Dial up the sexy. The 38cm gynobot, renamed "Eternal, Maiden, Actualization," touts her "glamorous body" in Sega Toys' marketing copy. What else does she do for $175? Hand out business cards, swagger along, and kiss her owner.

By the time she gets to Europe, she'll be Rosa Luxemburg in a tutu.

Press Release [Sega Toys via CrunchGear]

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#1 posted by GuabaMan

, June 13, 2008 6:48 AM

175$? Not bad considerin that the Female Type Robot costs like 3500$.

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#2 posted by trr , June 13, 2008 2:57 PM

The lower right picture caption says something like "___ and joyful kiss action" to the best of my ability to translate. It might be an onomatopoieic (sp?) word that sounds like kissing, since the same word appears next to the robot as if it's making a sound.

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#3 posted by Nelson.C , June 13, 2008 6:25 PM

キス　is the Japanese for "kiss". It's written in katakana, the characters used for foreign words, since (I'm told) the Japanese didn't kiss before contact with the West, so it's a loan word. Katakana also gets used for onomatopoeia in manga, hence "chu", チュッ which I'm guessing is the manga sound effect for a kiss.

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#4 posted by Jerril , June 13, 2008 6:35 PM

"Chu" is definitely the sound associated with kissing, in manga and anime. Apparently there's also some sort of clever pun involving mice, too, but I haven't got a clue what it is.

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#5 posted by eustace , June 13, 2008 10:28 PM

As in "mayo chu chu" (mayonnaise kisses) from the chorus of Shingo Mama no Oha Rock!

(warning - contains some James Brown)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwtOBqvPw0c

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#6 posted by kaiza , June 14, 2008 3:44 AM

I can't wait to see the Rule 34/35 of this!

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#7 posted by eustace , June 14, 2008 8:56 AM

I've been waiting so long for fembots.

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#8 posted by Rezorrand , June 14, 2008 9:45 AM

Can't read the top-left one, but it's something about keeping stuff in it's hand.
Top right means it dances while singing.
Lower left is "female like movement with two legs" or something. And last one is "a bit of some happy kissing action" and チュッ means a quick kiss. (ッ "little tsu" makes a double consonant, but when used as a last character in a word it abruptly ends the word).

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#9 posted by Anonymous , June 15, 2008 9:27 PM

I for one Welcome our robotic women overlords!

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#10 posted by Halloween Jack , June 16, 2008 11:01 AM

*sob* I knew that there was a woman for me out there somewhere! I n-never gave up hope!