In the Chiba area of Japan, near Tokyo, is a superhero who looks identical to “Gotham City’s” Batman.
The Japanese counterpart is called 「千葉ットマン」 (“ChiBatman“).
He has been cruising the streets of the Tokyo area, not fighting crime, but bringing smiles to people since the March 11th 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake…but wasn’t famous until a junior high school boy noticed him and took a photo and tweeted it.
That photo was re-tweeted thousands of times (including by me). Of course, with that many re-tweets the international media noticed. And there have now been reports about “ChiBatman“ in many countries’ news sources…such as the BBC.
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This is great, just read about him yesterday in German news: http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/batman-superhelden-fan-faehrt-als-chibatman-durch-japan-a-989199.html
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Yeah, since that junior high school kid tweet the photo the story of “Chibatman” is being reported all over the world. (I have no idea what that German article you linked to says! 😉 )
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Its is basically saying pretty much the same as the English versions, probably just a translation. However I think it is interesting how quickly such “news” are spreading around the globe 🙂
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> I think it is interesting how quickly such “news” are spreading around the globe
Yeah, this is the 21st century! It is amazing!
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I just watched a movie last night on “real superheros”. I think they’re cool.
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“Real Superheroes”? I want to watch that! I suppose they didn’t show the “Chibatman”…
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They did not. But they did show “Master Legend” who has a suit of armor and is pretty weird!
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I just googled “Master Legend”. It’s this guy, right? http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-legend-of-master-legend-20081217
He sounds glorious! I want to watch that movie…is it on YouTube?
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