Kaji Yuuki, the voice of Eren Yeager in Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan), appeared at the Shingeki no Kyojin x 7-Eleven collaboration event in Shinjuku Station Square on May 17th with co-star Ishikawa Yui (Mikasa Ackerman) and Olympic medalist judoka Shinohara Shin’ichi. Life-size figures (statues) of Eren and Levi featured at the event. When it was revealed that each figure would cost 1,728,000 yen (~$15,000), Kaji asked members of the audience if they would be willing to pay that kind of money. A few hands went up. He retorted, “You would have to be an idiot to pay that much.” Kaji’s comment was not intended to be malicious.
Kaji’s official site shut down on May 21st. The message left on his site thanks fans for their support and redirects those seeking more information about Kaji to the Twitter account maintained by his agency.