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Meet Nyango Star, the Japanese children's character who plays heavy metal drums

Meet Nyango Star, the Japanese children's character who plays heavy metal drums
Meet Nyango Star, the Japanese children's character who plays heavy metal drums

Imagine this, you’re a parent visiting a shopping mall in Japan and you’d like to entertain your children for a little while so you can enjoy a coffee.

Tempted over by the childish music and bright colours, your children take a seat in front of this cute character.

So you take a seat and let them put on the fun drums performance they’ve clearly set up for the little ones…Take a look.

Well, you can’t knock him (or her, we’re not entirely sure) for a lack of talent – but perhaps heavy metal drumming wasn’t quite what was expected.

Posted by a Japanese Twitter account, the red character, called “Nyango Star”, is something of a rising star in the country – even signing autographs after the performance.

Nyango Star has even been performing with famous Japanese artists, such as Koryuin Sho of “Golden Bomber” – a rock band who have topped the Japanese charts.

It might seem all rather bizarre over here to have a musician becoming famous whilst dressed in the costume of a children’s character – but then, in 2000, Bob the Builder did top the UK Singles Charts with “Can We Fix It”.

And with that, we will let Nyango Star drum out this article – with a piece from their YouTube channel.

Mesmerising.