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Meet Sheva-kun, guys! If you wanted to see how Ukraine could look like as an anime character, here it is.
A group of Japanese artists launched a Worldflags project where they depict countries as samurai warriors. Before designing characters, the artists make a deep research on the countries’ culture, symbols and colours.
So, no coincidence that Ukrainian samurai has a trident in his hand, comes from Kyiv, wears blue-yellow clothes and is named after our legendary Shevchenko.

ありがとうございます Arigatou gozaimasu!
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Ukrainian Trident (Tryzub)