Story The story of St. Grape-kun (pbuh)

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I know that the whole Grape-kun meme is quite old now but I think a lot of people are not aware of the depressing story behind it.

Grape-kun was born in April of 1996 at Hamura Animal Park, a small facility located in the western region of the Tokyo metropolitan area. Grape-kun lived at Hamura Animal Park for the first ten years of his life, and eventually became mates with a female penguin named “Midori”.

In Humboldt penguin society, mated couples usually stay together for their entire lives. However, in 2010, Grape-kun had to be removed from the enclosure for medical treatment. During his absence, Midori began mating with a much younger male penguin named “Denka”.

Even among penguins, infidelity seems to be taboo, and adulterous Humboldt penguins are often ejected from their flock. Mysteriously, in the case of Grape-kun, the opposite occurred; Grape-kun himself became estranged from the flock while Midori and Denka were accepted. It’s possible that this happened because Denka was much younger than Grape-kun and was recognized as the fitter mate. It’s also possible that the other penguins took Grape-kun for dead while he was in the hospital.

Whatever the case, Grape-kun now found himself alone, but still living in the same enclosure as Midori and her new mate. One can only guess whether a penguin can entertain emotions like grief, but Grape-kun stopped eating during this time. Eventually, it became necessary for his handlers to feed him, as he would not eat on his own. Midori and Denka continued to mate and eventually hatched a chick named “Beer”. Beer also lived in the same enclosure as Grape-kun.

In May of 2017, Tobu Zoo and the anime show Kemono Friends held a special collaboration event. Fifty cardboard cutouts depicting the anthropomorphized animal characters from the show were placed at different locations throughout Tobu Zoo. Among the cutours was a Humboldt penguin character named “Hululu”, which was placed right in the middle of Grape-kun’s enclosure.

Up until the Kemono Friends event Grape-kun had remained isolated and moribund, but after Hululu’s arrival he began moving to the center of his enclosure to stare at the anime character. Grape-kun would try to climb onto the cardboard cutout’s rocky platform in order to stand next to it, and refused to leave its side. Zookeepers had a difficult time getting Grape-kun to separate from Hululu long enough to eat, but they were happy to find that his appetite had returned. Grape-kun began eating on his own, and when not standing next to Hululu he would splash around energetically in his water pool.

No other penguins reacted to Hululu’s presence like Grape-kun, and Zoo-goers noticed this behavior too. Grape-kun, “the penguin who fell in love with an anime character”, quickly became an internet star. As word of Grape-kun’s “anime wife” spread, officials took notice as well. Chikuta Ikuko, the voice actress who portrays the Hululu character in the Kemono Friends anime, traveled to Tobu Zoo to see Grape-kun.

When the Kemono Friends event ended, the zookeepers and project managers recognized Hululu’s importance to Grape-kun, and opted to leave the cutout in place. Tobu Zoo also began to sell merchandise related to Grape-kun. Throughout the summer of 2017, Grape-kun’s media profile continued to grow, and Tobu Zoo enjoyed many new patrons who came to see the famous penguin. Animal behavior specialists were puzzled by Grape-kun’s behavior, and could not decisively conclude whether or not he truly “loved” the Hululu cutout or not, but most agreed that Grape-kun felt a special attachment to it.

So tl;dr penguins are for the most part monogamous but Grape-kun got cucked by a younger Chad-penguin and lived isolated from the other penguins as he had to endure seeing his ex-wife get brutally fucked by Chad. He's practically starving himself, the only thing keeping him from the sweet release of death are the normalfag zoo staf who insist on keeping him alive to torture him even further. Then finally, they add a cardboard cutout of a female, anthropomorphic penguin character from a popular anime and it becomes the centre of his life, finally giving him a reason to keep on living. He died a peaceful death shortly afterwards.

Truly, a penguin of culture. It seems like penguins are the closest allies we have in the animal world as they have to deal with the same shit as human males. Also relevant:

 

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