{"id":394,"date":"2007-04-22T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/22\/kami-robo-fighting-japanese-paper-robots\/"},"modified":"2007-04-22T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T15:57:06","slug":"kami-robo-fighting-japanese-paper-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/22\/kami-robo-fighting-japanese-paper-robots","title":{"rendered":"Kami-Robo: Fighting Japanese Paper Robots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across <a title=\"Kami-Robo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kami-robo.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Kami-Robo site <\/a> while googling for paper models. Some fellow makes paper robots and then stages make-believe pro-wrestling-style fights with them. He videotapes the bouts and writes elaborate commentary and back-stories. Quoting from the English version of the site: &#8220;At some point in childhood, all of us must have been swept up in the magical world of make-believe while playing alone. We were a special character in a situation known only to us. At the age of 10, Tomohiro Yasui began constructing robots out of paper to give form to his fantasy arena of wrestling robot fighters. Twenty years have passed, and he continues to enjoy and explore this solitary sphere of make-believe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The link I provided above goes to the Japanese version of the site; there&#8217;s a button on the upper-right corner of the page that will take you to the English version. The intro video on the Japanese page provides a rare (I suppose&#8211;rare for me, anyway) look at Japanese pro wrestling. I don&#8217;t know what the connection between the human wrestlers and the robots is; at first I thought it was a clever bit of video mashup but it appears near the end that it&#8217;s at least in part a promotional event for Kami-Robo.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Japanese take their robots and their paper seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across the Kami-Robo site while googling for paper models. Some fellow makes paper robots and then stages make-believe pro-wrestling-style fights with them. He videotapes the bouts and writes elaborate commentary and back-stories. Quoting from the English version of the site: &#8220;At some point in childhood, all of us must have been swept up&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/22\/kami-robo-fighting-japanese-paper-robots\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kami-Robo: Fighting Japanese Paper Robots!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}