>>14620297Yes, the mangaka Shotari Ishinomori who wrote Cyborg 009 and created Kamen Rider came from the city of Tome in the Miyagi prefecture. To celebrate his life and work there was a museum created in Tome and the city created a bunch of statues depicting the protagonists of his various creations and placed them all over the city. I spent a day walking around Tome and found three of the statues, but there are supposed to be a ton more just hidden all over the city.
