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The Dark Knight of Hamburger Small · 25 August 08

In Japan, Superman had been popular. Ultraman has his own Ultraman Land theme park not far from where I live. Spiderman? Generally regarded as pretty cool.

But Batman, explained our local friend, was not so big here.

“He cannot shoot beams from his eyes,” she said. “He cannot fly.”

True.

“We say he is shoboi,” she said.

It was a word I didn’t know. She tried to explain.

“It is like when you see a picture of a big hamburger,” she said. “But then they bring you a small hamburger. We say that hamburger is shoboi.”

Ouch. Somewhere, in the depths of the Gotham night, Bruce Wayne winced.

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