All Nippon Airways now has a聽Boeing 777-300ER with a聽painted Pok茅mon livery Shutterstock/DLeng
Joshua Paul Dale (Profile)
THE manhole covers outside Joshua Paul Dale’s front door sport bright portraits of manga characters. Hello Kitty appears on construction barriers at the end of his road, alongside various cute cartoon frogs, monkeys, ducks and more.
Dale lives in Tokyo, epicentre of a “cutequake” that has conquered mass media (the Pok茅mon craze, which began in 1996, is now one of the highest-grossing media franchises) and encroaches, at pace, upon the wider realm. The evidence? Well, for a start, there are those small, cutified police officer mannequins…
