{"id":11598,"date":"2007-06-21T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/life-sized-tetsujin-28-statue-planned\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T17:20:00","slug":"life-sized-tetsujin-28-statue-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/life-sized-tetsujin-28-statue-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Sized Tetsujin 28 Statue Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Kobe, Japan, birthplace of late manga creator Mitsuteru Yokoyama, has announced plans to honor Yokoyama with the construction of a 59 foot tall, life-sized, 70 ton statue of the giant robot Tetsujin 28gou (known in America as &#8220;Gigantor&#8221;). Tetsujin 28 is considered the first &#8220;giant robot&#8221; in the history of manga and anime. The Kobe Nagata Town Management Organization claims that the planned steel-plated statue will be Japan&#8217;s largest monument to a manga character.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2007-06-20\/18-meter-robot-statue-to-stand-at-creator's-birthplace\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Kobe, Japan, birthplace of late manga creator Mitsuteru Yokoyama, has announced plans to honor Yokoyama with the construction of a 59 foot tall, life-sized, 70 ton statue of the giant robot Tetsujin 28gou (known in America as &#8220;Gigantor&#8221;). Tetsujin 28 is considered the first &#8220;giant robot&#8221; in the history of manga and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}