# Probably stupid question about "Durham County"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 7, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-stupid-question-about-durham-county/512953 "2009-10-07T16:33:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-stupid-question-about-durham-county/512953/1 "2009-10-07T16:33:06Z")

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The TV show, not Durham County SC.  
Are the masks worn by the two girls real masks you could buy at an anime store or are they made up for the series? If they’re real, what is the name of the anime character?

For the first couple minutes of the show I was hoping that the girl was some kind of stop action animated figure they’d inserted in the show.

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**Author:** ![plr1022](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a87d85/32.png) [@plr1022](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plr1022)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-stupid-question-about-durham-county/512953/2 "2014-09-16T19:23:51Z")

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I don’t have the answer to your question, but another question. Do you have any info to where on to buy those masks? Thanks!🙂

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**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-stupid-question-about-durham-county/512953/3 "2014-09-22T06:59:25Z")

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I’ve watched a lot of anime since I posted this and I think the answer is “generic anime character”. As for retail masks, I’ve been to a lot of anime conventions and I’ve never seen anything similar.

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**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-stupid-question-about-durham-county/512953/4 "2016-04-10T18:22:45Z")

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Looks like I was wrong.  
[![](http://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire1/ad8568e5924172de4b7b8d1952e5bd0a1295792319_full.jpg) ](http://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire1/ad8568e5924172de4b7b8d1952e5bd0a1295792319_full.jpg)  
Still don’t know where you’d buy those masks from. Maybe homemade?

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-stupid-question-about-durham-county/512953/5 "2016-04-10T18:39:05Z")

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As a native of South Carolina and longtime resident of North Carolina, I am obliged to point out to the OP that you got your Carolinas confused.

[Counties of South Carolina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_South_Carolina#Alphabetical_list)

[Durham County, North Carolina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham_County,_North_Carolina)