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Be Responsible With the Masks

Photo: Yuichi Yamazaki
Photo: Yuichi Yamazaki (Getty Images)

Curiously, the store includes a note of caution on the masks’ product pages. It reminds people that this is a real face, and it does deserve a degree of respect. The advisory also asks customers to notify Kamenya Omote immediately if they wish to give the mask to someone else after buying it, and to provide that person’s contact information.

“This product is modeled after a real person. The purchaser may use the product of their own free will. However, please use the product with full understanding of the special nature of this product, including the fact that it is a mask modeled on a real person, and that the mask itself has a personality, and act in a manner that respects that personality and does not damage it,” the advisory reads.

Basically, it seems to be a polite way to say, “don’t do bad things with the mask.” Wise words.

[Vice]