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1/1 Fist of the North Star Figure Sold for 3 Million Yen
posted on by Egan Loo
The life-size Yahoo! Japan website. The crystals alone on this statue of manga lead character Kenshirō are worth 10 million yen (US$130,000).
The winner of the auction is a self-employed man in his 40s from Fujieda City in Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. According to the winner, his entire family are all Fist of the North Star fans; "I'll make [the statue] a family heirloom," he said. He did receive his wife's consent before bidding on the auction.
The 185-centimeter-tall (73-inch-tall) figure now stands in the winner's living room. He put it in a custom-made acrylic case to protect it from dust and earthquakes.
Tetsuo Hara. It took 10 designers three months to decorate the statue with 52 kinds of crystals.
10% of the final 3-million-yen bid was donated to the Japanese Red Cross for efforts in the areas affected by the March 11 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) disaster.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
Image © North Star Pictures
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