Internet memes are an incredibly strange and malleable beast, and you can never tell what the next meme that pops up will be about. Some memes are so strange that you would never believe there is a thriving community of people who keep them alive like, “draw yourself as a high school boy” or the reverse, “draw yourself as a high school girl”.
There is a meme right now that is so oddly specific, you have to wonder where they came up with the idea. It crosses The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls and Magic: The Gathering, and it might just blow your mind.
On Twitter, you can find the hashtag “#モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のmtgのカードが送られてくる”, which roughly translates to “#upload an image from Idolmaster and we will find a corresponding Magic: The Gathering card”. People have been uploading images from mobile games The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls and The Idolmaster: Side M, whereupon other users match them up with cards from Magic. We aren’t sure how people find the time to comb through the over 14,000 Magic: The Gathering cards that exist to find a piece of art that matches one from an anime game, but perhaps some people just have an encyclopedic knowledge of Magic card art.
The side-by-side comparisons reveal that the matches aren’t picture perfect, but the hashtag has produced some pretty amusing results. Here are a few of our favorites below (original tweets can be found at the end of the article).
▼ Anzu Futaba – Goblin Welder
▼ Asselin-BB II – Izzet Guildmage
▼ Atsumi Munakata – Darkblast
▼ Atsumi Munakata – Squirrel token
▼ Chieri Ogata – Deprive
▼ Sparkling dim sum lady – Malfegor
▼ Horaru Shiragiku – Hedron Crab
▼ Mary Cochran – Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
▼ Mayu Sakuma – Dark Banishing
▼ New Step Akiyama – Peach Garden Oath
▼ New Years Shimamura – Squee, Goblin Nabob
▼ Ranko Kanzaki – Apostle’s Blessing
▼ Sheepy girl – Static Orb
▼ Sora Nonomura – Crashing Centaur
▼ Surprised in bed – Snap
▼ Syoko Hoshi – Indestructible Aura
It just goes to show you that anything can be accomplished given the seemingly infinite time available to the masses on the Internet. The meme does seem to answer one mystery though, either Idolmaster artists are looking at Magic: The Gathering cards for inspiration, or there are only a limited number of action-style poses that can be used as card art and humanity has exhausted them all.
https://twitter.com/553_sia/status/635408251064967168便乗 #モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のMTGのカードが送られてくる pic.twitter.com/O9TTWmGe5O
— ベル=フライ (@bell_fly) August 22, 2015
#モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のMTGのカードが送られてくる うーん pic.twitter.com/ufXVuEl5QN
— 有川古葉🐈🖥🏰🕛🏢 (@arikawakoba) August 22, 2015
たぶん既出だろうが #モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のMTGのカードが送られてくる pic.twitter.com/hl8Bye2Tgz
— キュア水夫(みずお)☄️🌂🦋🚑スバ友アヒージョ🚑 (@Altergative) August 22, 2015
んんんんきたぁあ♡♡♡ #モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のMTGのカードが送られてくる pic.twitter.com/mIuPUtcYAd
— みりん🍓 (@Mirin_u) August 22, 2015
https://twitter.com/moron_idiot/status/635230517860823040 https://twitter.com/femur0/status/635208687422844932こういうことか#モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のMTGのカードが送られてくる pic.twitter.com/Abvs4IK4zw
— ノエル (@wakwakP) August 22, 2015
('з')こんなの? #モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のMTGのカードが送られてくる pic.twitter.com/pes8WimLWj
— ニャルーミア('з') (@Nyar_Chaos) August 22, 2015
https://twitter.com/femur0/status/635207752688644096わあ #モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のMTGのカードが送られてくる pic.twitter.com/7SuYe0VzcF
— 桝宮 (@masmyan) August 22, 2015
似すぎてて草 #モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のMTGのカードが送られてくる pic.twitter.com/j33wIDyPzs
— DINOS (@DINOS_DDR) August 22, 2015
ニナチャーン #モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のmtgのカードが送られてくる pic.twitter.com/gPFfaN6jZu
— あゆたか (@ayutaka) August 22, 2015
こういうことでしょ #モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のMTGのカードが送られてくる pic.twitter.com/AzAGSJoqLQ
— †浩夢† (@hiro_is_a_hero) August 22, 2015
とっさに出てきたのがこれ#モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のMTGのカードが送られてくる pic.twitter.com/OrRjZ8LCuv
— a:椅子 a: Succubus (@CocKAWASAKI) August 22, 2015
ウィッシュ!#モバマスの画像をアップすると近い構図のMTGのカードが送られてくる pic.twitter.com/rEBvwoMG4T
— 松谷康德 (@luv_kraft) August 22, 2015
H/T Kotaku USA
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