Anime Trope_ People Getting Carried Like Rice Bags
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
Forget getting carried like a bride or a princess, the new thing, it seems, is getting hauled about like a bag of rice. This is called “okome-sama dakko” (お米様抱っこ), and it’s become a topic online after Mikazuki Augus from Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans busted it out:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/693858271644389376 Hardly a first, but there you go. “Okome-sama dakko” Y1 App is wordplay on what the Japanese call “ohime-sama dakko” (basically, “carrying a princess”). This is what ohime-sama dakko looks 
more or less like:cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1758224982","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); fa ミンキーお姫様抱っここうですか、どうですか、動画まだですか #minkey pic.twitter.com/GpyDVAzKCc — すなお (@earsvnee) February 7, 2016 In the West, people have traditionally carried the bride across the threshold 
like this. Anime characters, however, have been carrying each other around like bags of rice. Here, let nationwide Japanese morning show Zip! explain:
女性を米俵のように担ぐ抱っこ。お米様抱っこってwww #ZIP #今日はZIPでポン1勝1敗 Y1 Game pic.twitter.com/LUQdBNhZgY — ガク＠かどや&コムサポートオフィス（今井学） (@kasumi_gaku) February 9, 2016 https://twitter.com/embed/status/697192355560968192 As you can see, the 
dude is carrying a bag of rice in one photo and carrying a person in a similar fashion in the other. In English, we’d probably call this the “fireman’s carry.”
お米様抱っこ完全に一致 pic.twitter.com/ihTZgNTD2v — 腐乱死巣🌈🕒💜 (@final_furansisu) January 26, 2016 This can also refer to carrying the cut rice sans bag. ZIPをリアタイで見ていたんだが、きぃちゃんが「お米様抱っこ」が流行りだと言っていて、ファッ!?ってなったwwだって「お米様抱っこ」って、コレでしょ!? #お米様抱っこ #元祖はJOJO pic.twitter.com/klF9BdICG5 — 黒瀬魁斗@城プロとヒロアカが好きすぎてシンドイ (@kaito_kurose) February 10, 2016 https://twitter.com/embed/status/697194297855086593 It’s not just male characters carrying female characters like this! The trope, which certainly isn’t new, is already spawning more and more fan art online. お米様抱っこベルジャンにさせてたな pic.twitter.com/DKEQEtyBdl — みそじ@アイコン作成承ります (@krs93dr) February 10, 2016 お姫様抱っことお米様抱っこ pic.twitter.com/C4dFvC999o all yono app — ひとみゃん (@hitomyann7) February 10, 2016 https://twitter.com/embed/status/693254184359956480 https://twitter.com/embed/status/696705924564541441 https://twitter.com/embed/status/697197485039595520 https://twitter.com/embed/status/697192369473466368 ジップでやってたお米様抱っこ、スティレオでやったけど肩が胃に食い込むし頭に血がのぼるから長時間は死ぬし、上の人はかなり腹筋が試されるよ❤️ pic.twitter.com/TI4KHGEAPa — 時任遊也 (@yuuyatokitou) February 9, 2016 https://twitter.com/embed/status/695975369229205506 https://twitter.com/embed/status/692750773541703680 https://twitter.com/embed/status/691858009488760832 Top image: hitomyann7 To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft
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