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Japanese artists anthropomorphise national flags into samurai characters for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
投稿日 2019年6月27日 00:00:57 (ニュース)
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See what your country and national flag look like as a samurai warrior!
From menstrual cycles to eye drops and even Japanese idioms, nothing is too obscure to become a beautiful anthropomorphised character in Japan. And with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics coming up, it was only a matter of time before someone came up with the idea of taking participating countries and their flags and turning them into anime characters.
So when the World Flags project emerged online last week, we were happy to see that not only had a group of Japanese artists gathered to create characters for 32 countries, but they were designed to look like awesome warriors as well.
According to the official website, the new project aims to “introduce the flags of the world and some information about them using cool Japanese traditional clothes (samurai, firefighter, Japanese monk etc)!”
The project is not affiliated with the Japanese government, nor is it connected to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Instead, the unofficial project is using the upcoming Olympics as the impetus for introducing people to countries around the world and their flags, in a unique and eye-catching way.
So far, 32 countries have been anthropomorphised for the project, with more to come in future. So let’s get to it and take a look at the characters in the current series!
Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
China
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Malaysia
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Mexico
Netherlands
Norway
Philippines
Russia
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
UAE
USA
Venezuela
Vietnam
Was your country on the list? If it wasn’t, or if you think you have a better character idea for your home nation, not to worry! World Flags wants everyone to join in the fun so they’re encouraging people to create their own fan art and share them on Twitter with the hashtag #worldflags_fa.
The characters they’ve created for the project are so good we have a hunch we might be seeing some people attending Olympic events in cosplay inspired by these images. Now all we need to do is snare some tickets to the Games!
Source, images: World Flags
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