If you don’t know who Melonpan is, he’s a Swiss anime fan who has a decent-sized Twitter following for his somewhat eccentric behavior involving moe anime characters and figurines.
🍳#meidocaferecap pic.twitter.com/vn7ClRcZEo
— Melonpan🔞スイスの変態紳士🇨🇭 (@MeidocafeR) May 16, 2018
I mean, that’s not all that much weirder than the Sweedish Chef on The Muppet Show. I think he cooked and ate Bunson Honeydew once. That might have been a dream. But Gonzo was dating a chicken, there was some weird stuff going on there.
Moe is a Japanese term that, essentially, refers to attraction to anime characters, or as otaku usually refer to them, “2d girls”, and Melonpan has no problem expressing which 2d girls he finds moe on Twitter.
オナるオナネコにゃにゃ~! pic.twitter.com/JTSKAFmAVz
— Melonpan🔞スイスの変態紳士🇨🇭 (@MeidocafeR) May 13, 2018
Otaku are the subject of this season’s best anime, Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, so their culture and ways are becoming known to the rest of us. The characters in Wotakoi tend to keep their hobbies on the down-low, and they tend to be a little more… restrained than Melonpan, but he’s just enthusiastic.
拭いて拭いてぇ〜♡ pic.twitter.com/wQHO9h2NIP
— Melonpan🔞スイスの変態紳士🇨🇭 (@MeidocafeR) April 1, 2018
The reason I’m telling you all of this is because Melonpan was fired by DHL after like, one day of working there because they found out about his antics on Twitter.
苦情の嵐の所為で、DHL入社一日目でもうクビにされた。 潔くUBSに戻って、顔が知られていない部にでも応募してみようと思う。 ロリ好きの変態紳士をやっていると色々と大変だけど、頑張る! pic.twitter.com/77kHrczHer
— Melonpan🔞スイスの変態紳士🇨🇭 (@MeidocafeR) May 9, 2018
Twitter translates that message as “Because of a storm of complaints, I was fired on the first day of joining DHL. I’m going to go back to UBS and try to apply for the part where the face is not known. I’m doing a lot of kinky gentleman like Lori, but I work hard!”
Melonpan has found himself the subject of several pieces about how weird he is, but he’s not going to let that keep him from doing the things he loves, which is mainly body pillows.
"Nutty Swiss otaku gets fired on first day of new job after boss discovers his colorful past" https://t.co/bLqDyGPo3F & https://t.co/aepbBEHP0M
I'm just a simple man of culture. Am I really that nutty? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/eZgVph8R9J
— Melonpan🔞スイスの変態紳士🇨🇭 (@MeidocafeR) May 14, 2018
"Melonpan Fired On First Day Of Job For Degeneracy"
"Craziest Swiss Otaku Gets Fired On New Job After Boss Discovers His Internet Persona" "Swiss D rank eceleb"Don't stop. 😂https://t.co/21c1WHqczrhttps://t.co/jhMFzet60n pic.twitter.com/XpcySCjj4b
— Melonpan🔞スイスの変態紳士🇨🇭 (@MeidocafeR) May 15, 2018
#こみっくがーるず pic.twitter.com/t8WTwBlKDc
— Melonpan🔞スイスの変態紳士🇨🇭 (@MeidocafeR) May 14, 2018
I mean, hey, if he’s happy, he’s happy. The dude obviously isn’t ashamed to be weird on the internet, so who am I to try and shame him? Is he really any weirder than the dudes (and ladies, let’s be real) posting thirsty replies to porn stars or the stars of Marvel movies? And I’d much rather spend time with this guy than some degenerate Olicity shipper.