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English Textbook Features Puella Magi Madoka Magica in Bento Reading
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
As the days until the new school year begins in Japan on April 1 wind down, students are starting to peruse their new textbooks. People already discovered that The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya features in a new edition of a first-year high school English textbook. Twitter users have also begun posting photos of Puella Magi Madoka Magica characters in Lesson 2 of an unconfirmed English textbook.
高校の英語教科書にハルヒ載るみたいだけど、私の高校の教科書にはまどマギが載ってた pic.twitter.com/VvH2CJwtGf
— れもえーど。 (@remoe_do) March 19, 2017
待って!!
— kinnme@ゼロの書アニメ化嬉しい (@kinnme125) March 19, 2017
うちの英語の教科書まどマギでてる!! pic.twitter.com/Ej68iGBd00
The textbook features a scene from one of the Madoka Magica films. In the adjacent reading, one character offers a piece of karaage fried chicken to her friend. The reading describes how Japanese bento lunch boxes became popular among French people.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica's lead voice actress Aoi Yūki made recordings for a world history textbook CD that debuted in 2012.
Chukei, a Kadokawa Group Publishing company, also previously published English vocabulary guides featuring characters from the Haruhi Suzumiya light novels to teach English. Before that, the company published a math textbook that features A Certain Scientific Railgun characters, books that teach chemistry with Lucky Star characters, a physics guide featuring the My Ordinary Life anime cast, and a text on ancient writings featuring the characters from Mitsuru Yūki's Shonen Onmyouji light novels.
[Via Otakomu]
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