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” 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:
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 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
— 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
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