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Originally Posted by roninmedia
Just one massive issue. Baseball and softball have been removed as Olympic Sports.
Honestly, the only connection we may see to anime would most likely be with the Olympic mascots. The mascots will typically be an animal or a person culturally relevant to the host country. With the Winter Games in Nagano in 1998, the mascots were 4 owls representing the 4 islands. The last times the Summers Gamers were in Tokyo, there was no mascot (the 1940 games were canceled due to WWII and 1964, no mascot).
I would not be surprised if the mascot is a cute animal creature. Maybe a Doraemon, Hello Kitty, Pikachu or what wide known creature it may be in 2020. Or if a person(s), Amaterasu Ōmikami & Tsukiyomi-no-mikoto or 5 Samurai (Tne Book of Five Rings, Musashi Miyamoto Musashi, 5 Olympic Rings).
I just imagine somehow a group of 5 Samurai lightning the Olympic flame in the stadium.
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Something cute and culturally/nationally relevant! Like the Beijing, Sydney etc. mascots!
Should be better than those...
mascot thingies...from London 2012...