#2020
Size: 100 x 80 x 250 mm
material: newspaper (2013, Japan, newspaper at the time of the Olympic bid decision), Kent paper, illustration board
Year of creation: 2019
Using the motif of the car of the main character "Shotaro Kaneda" from the manga "Akira", I used a newspaper with an article about the decision to bid for the Tokyo Olympics, published in 2013. The manga is set in Tokyo in 2019, the year before the Tokyo Olympics, and the Tokyo Olympics are involved in some way in the story. However, this work is not a cheerful one, and if anything, this motif, as well as the cheerful articles and headlines from the bid on the surface, are meant to be satirical and ironic. This is because the place where the main characters fight in the manga is the "Olympic Stadium," and in the middle of the battle, a military satellite attacks the stadium, causing it to explode in flames. Abort, Abort! and "I'm firmly against it." I incorporated these depictions into this work by citing the depictions in the story and the black reality that often lurks behind the bright topics in reality. Akira's protagonist, Shotaro Kaneda, is also a tribute to the protagonist of Tetsujin 28, Shotaro Kaneda, and it also means distrust and rebellion against the adults who led the world to destruction after the war. The story is also a tribute to "Shotaro Kaneda. (The story of Akira itself is also set after World War III.)
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