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‘Dream maker’: preschool teacher in China convinces class he is secretly Ultraman and protects them from ‘monsters’
- The teacher created an elaborate video that convinced the children he was Ultraman when not at the school
- He even used a small injury as ‘proof’ he was fighting ‘monsters’
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A preschool teacher in north China leaned into his class’s fascination with the Japanese superhero Ultraman by dressing up as the character to “defend the children from monsters”.
The video of the teacher from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, surnamed Yang, went viral in China, with people calling him a “dream maker”.
Yang, who is in his twenties, teaches three-to-four-year-old children in Ordos city and, according to him, there are more boys than girls in his class and all of the boys are fans of Ultraman, a popular Japanese superhero character.
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“I thought to myself, ‘If they like Ultraman so much, why do not I transform into him for them?’”, Yang told Wutong video, a mainland Chinese news platform.
Rather than simply donning a costume and showing up to the class, Yang decided to make a video that showed him acting as Ultraman when he is not teaching.
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Yang followed a handful of bloggers who posted their own Ultraman transformation videos and asked them for advice about how to turn the idea into a reality.
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