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Mario and Luigi go to China! Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. appear in Shenzhen
Nintendo's mascots have made a surprise appearance in a large Shenzhen mural
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Nintendo’s famous mustachioed mascots, the Mario Bros., have popped out of the Mushroom Kingdom and appeared in Shenzhen on a massive elementary school mural.
The mural, which first went up in October, was captured in photos taken by a Shenzhen resident and Flickr user known as Chris. These images have since gone viral, appearing on various gaming and pop culture websites.
Featuring Mario and his brother Luigi jumping over obstacles and enemies taken straight from Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. video game series, the painting takes up the entire wall of a currently unidentified five storey Shenzhen elementary school.
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Internet commentators studying the photos have claimed that the school seems to be located close to Shenzhen’s Bao’an Stadium, roughly a 15 minute walk from the city metro’s Tai’an Station.
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A reporter from Japanese popular news website NariNari travelled to Shenzhen to check the authenticity of the mural, and reported that it was constructed partly because of the school’s curricular focus on Japanese animation and comics, and also as an artistic installation designed to inspire children.
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