{"id":28397,"date":"2024-03-12T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T03:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=28397"},"modified":"2024-03-12T12:52:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T03:52:23","slug":"street-fighter-chun-li-statue-nara-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/street-fighter-chun-li-statue-nara-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Fighter\u2019s Chun Li gets a new statue in Nara, Japan – here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On March 9, a new statue of Chun Li from Street Fighter<\/strong> was unveiled in Nara prefecture, Japan. As reported by Nara Shimbun<\/a>, the bronze statue is part of a collaboration between Street Fighter developer Capcom and Nara prefecture\u2019s Kashihara City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standing at around 1.5 meters including its base, the statue can be found in front of the branch office of Kashihara City Hall. Kashihara is the birthplace of Capcom\u2019s founder Kenzo Tsujimoto. Since August 2022, Capcom and Kashihara City have entered into an agreement that allows the city to use Street Fighter characters to help bring people to the city and revitalize it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Chun Li Statue (Image Credit: Nara TV News YouTube video<\/a>)<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Street Fighter has been connected to Kashihara even before the recent collaboration. In 1995, an educational anime movie featuring characters from the game series was released. Street Fighter II: Return to the Fujiwara Capital features Japan\u2019s first integrated capital city, Fujiwara-kyo, that was founded 1300 years ago in what is now Kashihara City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Chun Li statue was crowdfunded, achieving just over its 5,550,000-yen (approx. 37,680 USD) goal thanks to donations from 34 people. Prior to the unveiling of the statue, a martial arts demonstration was held by the local high school club, and attendees could also enjoy playing a few rounds of Street Fighter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Street Fighter themed manhole covers on display for the statue unveiling event (Image Credit: Nara TV News YouTube video<\/a>)<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wandering around the city, you may also stumble across a bronze statue of Ryu that was unveiled last year, or three colorful manhole covers featuring Ryu, Chun Li and the 1995 educational anime movie. Looking at Kashihara City\u2019s website<\/a>, it seems that they plan to do more events and add more characters to their Street Fighter statue roster in the future (namely Ken and E. Honda). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Ryu statue that was installed last year outside Kashihara City’s Tourism Exchange Center (Image Credit: Kashihara City website<\/a>).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Street Fighter 6 is currently available for PC (Steam<\/a>), PS4<\/a>\/PS5<\/a> and Xbox Series X|S<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more Street Fighter-related articles, check out Street Fighter 6 menu shows Ryu\u2019s third nipple apparently<\/a> or Street Fighter II gets new character in official browser game collab with Pocky.<\/a>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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