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500-kg Robot for Oshii's Tetsujin 28 Stage Play Rises
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Replica of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's super robot stands 6 meters tall
Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: Director Gigantor in its English adaptation) stands about six meters (20 feet) tall and can stand on its own for the story's climax. (The Mainichi Shimbun paper's Mantan Web site posted a photo of the robot onstage.)
Mamoru Oshii is best known for directing such anime as Mobile Police Patlabor, but he also directed Avalon and other live-action projects. Tetsujin 28 is the first time Oshii directed and wrote a stage play. The play runs in Tokyo from January 10 to 25 and then in Osaka from February 5 to 8.
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