Huge One Piece Panels Put On Display At Kumamoto Airport

Two further massive panels displaying characters from the favored manga collection, One Piece, will greet the passengers arriving on the Aso Kumamoto Airport’s home terminal

One panel encompasses a 5.8-meter-high and three.2-meter-wide unique illustration of eight of the “Straw Hat Pirates,” together with protagonist Luffy. Whereas the opposite one, a 3.9 m excessive and 28.8 m broad panel, portrays a map of the place the Kumamoto Prefectural Authorities is putting in bronze statues of them.

Eiichiro Oda, the creator of One Piece, a Kumamoto native, has offered the illustrations for the panels. They’re additionally part of the “third ONE PIECE Kumamoto Revival Undertaking”.

The prefectural authorities spent 2.5 million yen (about $22,000) to erect the panels. The photographs are printed on vinyl chloride boards and can stay on show for a minimum of two years.

Just lately, a bronze statue of Straw Hats archaeologist Nico Robin was unveiled on Oct 9, 2021, as part of the Kumamoto Restoration Undertaking.

Earlier than Robin, the federal government unveiled statues of Franky, Chopper, Luffy, Brook, and Nami in Oda’s hometown. Zoro’s statue is ready to be unveiled subsequent.

On April 16, 2016, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake ripped by means of Kumamoto prefecture inflicting huge harm to the world. Roughly, the earthquake did over $5 billion of injury, leveling houses, companies, and several other necessary historic websites.

Supply: Mainichi Digital, Kumamoto Prefecture Official Web site