salaryman heroes
Originally uploaded by notnato.
This is from the salarman heroes line of toys. It's a collection of diorama toys (now in the third series) featuring ultraman in various office scenarios. He works and rides the train with his nemises, and leads a charlie brown-like japanese everyman life.
Like so many japanese toys, foods, posters, hell any japanese ephemera, it inspires western people to remark on how great/bad/different japan is.
This time, I wanna say japan is sweet and kind. To see the single greatest icon of power in Japanese modern culture put in the situations he's in, is heart-warming. He's a subordinate and he misses his train, and in the new series, he even finds love. In a partially unrelated tv commercial, he is asked by his wife to get kerosene for the heater... but forgets to use his point card.
For all the emmasculation and subservience that a Japanese man is asked to face, it's nice to see that someone understands. Ultraman feels you.
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