2020-12-16 16:35:16 GMT2020-12-17 00:35:16(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HEFEI/HANGZHOU, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) Chinese audiences have expressed condolences on social media over the death of Japanese cartoonist Daiji Kazumine, whose representative works include the Ultraman comic series.
In an obituary on Tuesday, the Japan Cartoonists Association stated that Kazumine, a member of the association, died of cerebral hemorrhage and lobar pneumonia on Nov. 27 at the age of 84, according to Japanese media reports.
The Ultraman TV series, featuring a silver-suited masked superhero who comes from outer space to save the earth from gigantic monsters, was first aired in China in the early 1990s and has become the childhood memory of many Chinese audiences.
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