Today in Random: The Japanese Ambassador Offered Dried Mangoes to the Gundam Statue
"Offered" here used very loosely.
(SPOT.ph) Even with the prolific crossing of Filipino and Japanese cultures in the realms of food and entertainment, it's safe to say that nothing could prepare us for the day that the Yokohama Gundam statue would meet dried mangoes.
In line with all the absurdity of the past couple years, that day is now randomly upon us, as the Ambassador of Japan in the Philippines Kazuhiko Koshikawa shared an image of himself offering up dried mangoes to the 60-foot statue in the Japanese port city. File this under Top 10 Anime Crossovers You Didn't Expect to Happen.
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You didn't ask, but here's Ambassador Kaz posing wih the Yokohama Gundam:
"Ma-GUNDAM hapon po!!!" Ambassador Kaz tweeted out on October 24, alongside photos of him holding up dried mangoes at the site of the Gundam factory of Yokohama. Aside from announcing that his meryenda was "masarap," the ambassador also teased that the Philippines could get its own Gundam statue in the future too.
He tweeted, "My Filipino friends once joked that they want this moving Gundam statue here in Yokohama to come to the Philippines. For now, I brought a delicious piece of the Philippines here instead!" The keyword of course being "For now."
Who knows, maybe given Voltes V's popularity—and, uh, complicated legacy—in the Philippines, we could petition the Japanese embassy for a giant Super-Electromagnetic Robot to be put up in Quezon City Memorial Circle, or something. Just throwing around ideas here. At the very least, we now have a random image of an official ambassador eating dried mangoes at the Yokohama Gundam statue to keep us smiling till then.
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