Balloon Shapes By Cops » Anime http://silentjimblog.com Intermittent stories about life in Japan Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:47:16 +0000 en hourly 1 Tetsujin 28 Statue in Kobe http://silentjimblog.com/2010/02/tetsujin-28-statue-in-kobe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tetsujin-28-statue-in-kobe http://silentjimblog.com/2010/02/tetsujin-28-statue-in-kobe/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:36:22 +0000 Silentjim http://silentjimblog.com/?p=1237

Finally got around to piecing together and uploading my videos of our visit to the Testujin 28 (Gigantor) statue in Shin-Nigata, Kobe last December.
For those that don’t know, Testujin 28 (or Gigantor as he’s known in the west) is a very long running anime (cartoon) in Japan.

Following on from the Gundam statue in Tokyo, there’s been a spate of these giant anime/pop culture related statues cropping up recently to boost the local economies.

This is Kobe’s…

Gigantor

Tetsujin 28


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