Statuesque

Fantastic. Only in Japan does a cartoon get enough respect to merit a statue. It's kind of tragic how many statues there are of forgettable politicians, religious leaders and lame abstractions of universal concepts, and how little of fictional characters. The only one that springs to mind is the statue of Peter Pan in London. There ought to be more. There's an obvious reason why fiction is a lot more inspiring than reality, it is meant to be a story after all. But why this disqualifies the average fictional character form their own statue is beyond me. It's not as if a representation of a 19th century statesman makes as much of difference to a park as imagined. Unless you make a study of it, would you recognise a statue without reading the inscription? I think it's absurd to think of a representation of a figure in reality as less real than a representation of figure in fiction. The existence of the statue itself is an attack on the authenticity of the figure.