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Figure Auctioned for 15 Million USD

Submitted by Alafista on Saturday, 17 May 200817 Comments

Would you pay 15 million USD for a figure? Well a figure “statue” sculpted by Takashi Murakami was auctiond off for US$15.16 million at the Sotheby’s auction house on Wednesday evening in New York City.

Figure Auctioned for 15 Million USD

This 2.54 meter tall status depicts a boy “ejaculating in lasso-like form.” o.O WTF

In fact it has a female companion, Hiropon.

Source: 痛いニュース and Yahoo! JP News via 2ch News Navigator

While I kinda understand this is art, but personally I still don’t understand why would people pay millions of dollars to buy this kind of art?!

With that kind of money, I can get Alter or GSC to make me an awesome Haurhi 1:1 figure or something.

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