World flags turned into anime characters

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These artists are reimagining the flags of over 80 countries ... by turning them into anime characters.   This is the World Flags project.

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00:00A lot of young people reacted on Twitter, and they loved our character.

00:05People from, let's say, the embassy contacted us.

00:08They wanted to collaborate with us.

00:10This is what World of Warcraft is all about.

00:18We first created this website in which all those characters were displayed, and we created

00:24music.

00:25We are now creating a story based on characters.

00:27We are trying to create games eventually.

00:29The purpose behind this project is to facilitate understanding of different cultures.

00:35Just like Olympic Games, it's important to get united.

00:39It's important to promote cross-cultural understanding.

00:43We wanted to make it catchy so that people get interested in it, and people will pay

00:47attention to it.

00:48That is why we created this samurai animation manga character.

00:52We were able to appeal to a wider range of audiences, like the younger generation, and

00:57people outside Japan as well.

01:11Samurai's history and image is pretty well-known to a lot of Japanese people.

01:16We have a basic understanding of what samurai is, where samurai lived, and what kind of

01:22personality and culture samurai had.

01:38The armor design was also different depending on the region and the era in the history of

01:44Japan.

01:45There were diverse kinds of samurais in our history.

01:50We have an infinite design and idea if we choose samurai as a theme.

02:02In Japan, it's like an Asian society.

02:04There are a small number of young people, and a lot of people are over 65.

02:09It's hard to find common topics in conversation, but when it comes to manga and anime, it's

02:13easier for us to have communication between us.

02:16That is why manga and anime play a very important role to connect intergenerational audiences.

02:40Even outside Japan, people watch anime and manga content.

02:44Japan is the center of anime and manga culture.

02:47Historically, Japan is the anime Hollywood, I think.

02:50Live-action Hollywood is in the United States, and Bollywood is in India.

02:53In Japan, we have anime and manga.

03:10We usually have an interview with people from that country before making a character

03:16to make it authentic.

03:18It's very difficult to represent all the country's elements in one character.

03:23There's a different understanding of Japanese culture, even among Japanese people.

03:27There are many opinions about Spain's character.

03:30There was some criticism about Marigold, so we have a discussion to make it better and

03:34correct that aspect.

03:36That happens all the time, but we are happy to answer those requests as much as possible.

03:42We have no intent to stick to the original design, to be honest.

03:58We didn't aim to create this project for Olympic Games, but now is a great timing for a lot

04:03of people to understand different cultures and different countries' backgrounds and so on.

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