It has all of the glamor you’ll anticipate from the legendary singer
A darkish horse sequence from 2016, Lightning Strike Fantasy used conventional Chinese language and Taiwanese puppetry to captivate the creativeness of anime followers around the globe. One particular person is an integral a part of manufacturing Takanori Nishikawa. He not solely offered the theme music for all three seasons, but additionally the voice of the younger, red-haired pipa-playing man Làng Wū Yáo. To have fun the singer’s birthday, the puppetry firm has come to an finish Lightning Strike FantasyPili Puppetry, imagined a Nishikawa ‘puppet’.
Pili Puppetry’s Tweet) account posted the picture of the Nishikawa “doll” on the singer’s birthday, September 19. Within the submit, Pili Puppetry additionally requested followers to reminisce about Nishikawa’s 1998 music “Sizzling Restrict.”
【Dongli|Congratulations to Xichuan Guijiao】
At the moment is September 19, Takanori Nishikawa’s birthday. Let’s reminisce collectively concerning the traditional ‘HOT LIMIT’~
The fourth season theme music “SKYBREAKER-” is sung by Takaki Nishikawa, with lyrics written by Benjamin + cAnON and music composed by Hiroyuki Sawano.#Let’s want the chief a cheerful birthday collectively #Takanori Nishikawa #HOTLIMIT pic.twitter.com/Y3mu9z8Pna— PILI Puppetry (@epilinet) September 19, 2024
Whereas the photograph within the Pili PuppetryTweet submit seems to be a Nishikawa doll, astute followers of each Nishikawa and Lightning Strike Fantasy will discover that one thing is incorrect. That is as a result of the story merged Làng Wū Yáo’s doll head onto Nishikawa’s actual physique. It is also a fairly convincing job, as a result of at first look it looks as if an authentic doll with all of the glamor you’ll anticipate from Nishikawa.
Now, if solely he seems on stage sporting a Làng Wū Yáo masks whereas performing “Sizzling Restrict.”
Sources: X/ from Pili PuppetryTweet account