Each character incorporates symbols and colours associated with the country, such as the Irish shamrockSamurai soldiers have played a huge part in Japanese history since at least the 12th Century. Although samurais themselves no longer exist, "bushido" - the way of the warrior, based on honour and discipline - is a value system considered important in Japanese culture even today.
And when it comes to the design of the characters, they've taken a more collaborative approach - sometimes holding polls on Twitter and asking people to vote for the most iconic symbol or object from a country. Sometimes however, they get negative feedback, which they say can also prove helpful. When they first drew Spain for instance, the character was imagined as a bullfighter.
"We didn't know that bullfighting is controversial in Spain. We received criticism online, so we changed it."The artists take inspiration from the country's flags, such as Jamaica, when in the design stageThe colours of the country's flag represent the three main ethnic groups of the country: Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslims. So the samurai not only wears these colours, but the image also includes a lion, prominently featured on the flag.
Very cool.
How has the British Broadcasting Corporation managed to write an article about Olympic countries and *not* include Great Britain! Hmm, anyone would think they hate our country.
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What is interesting about this is that people who are replying in English are people who are writing in Japanese who are commenting favorably and commenting the opposite.
Any idea what the GB one looked like?
jiulee07 What a nice idea!! They push these characters more on the media! I’d live to see all the countries characters! But I myself live in Japan have never seen them so far. Why is that?
英国人の反応が様々で面白い。
At least show the British samurai, BBC!!
No doubt this is probably racist somehow, don’t care how or why I think they look cool.
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This is ridiculous.
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え～これはないわ～ お子様すぎるからやめて～！！
This is why they’re better than the UK. This. Is. Why.
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Is the personification of America white? Black? Native American? And there are no women, are there?
Very cool, but both Sri Lanka and Jamaica as white, with blond hair and blue eyes? 🤨
Lazy reporting. Didn't even include the link to the artists' entire artwork. They included 17 countries only.
Nice
Fantastic!!!
They seem to be all white, gay men! A samurai with an umbrella, what about the rigid straw hat? 60s real TV Samurai!
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B.S. Trivialization of Japanese culture by the anti-Japanese force Dentsu.
I want to see them all
DEliza42 now this you must see.
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