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Paralympic Anime - creating new sporting heroes

With less than two years until the Tokyo Paralympics get under way, Japanese broadcaster NHK has commissioned several Paralympic based anime TV shows featuring the country's most successful Para-athletes.

Triple Paralympic Champion Wheelchair tennis player Shingo Kunieda has a cartoon based on him. The multiple Grand Slam winner says the animations are helping remove stigmas surrounding Para-athletes...

Photo credit: Shingo Kunieda (NHK)

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3 minutes