Ultraman scenes remade with cardboard and sticky tape become social media hit in China
- Five young men spent two weeks making props from cardboard boxes and battle gear from old shirts and bike helmets. Their three-minute video has won over fellow fans of the Japanese pop culture phenomenon
Houses made from cardboard boxes, old shirts turned into battle gear with sticky tape, and bike helmets as masks. Welcome to Ultraman with Chinese characteristics.
When a group of five men in their early 20s from Guangdong province got together to make a short amateur video based on the Japanese science fiction series, they never expected it would be so popular.
But since it was posted on social media last week, the three-minute video has won plaudits from Ultraman fans in both China and Japan.
The Ultraman series is a Japanese pop culture phenomenon about a superhero fighting alien invaders and monsters threatening the planet. The character is especially popular among Chinese born in the 1970s and ’80s, when the animated series became a local hit.
