Olympic flag arrives in Tokyo, host of next Summer Games

“I never thought of having Prime Minister Abe play Mario, let alone him emerging from plumbing”, another Twitter user said.

Before that segment of the clip aired, originally the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was stuck in traffic in Japan on his way to the airport to attend the games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. 22 of the 37 venues will be constructed specifically for the 2020 Olympics. Then his savior Doraemon appeared, opening a portal going to Brazil.

But viewers in Japan who tuned into the broadcast of Rio’s closing ceremony yesterday morning were surprised to see their normally sober leader pop out of an oversized green drainpipe dressed as Super Mario, the character from the popular Nintendo video game.

Most had apparently never conceived of the normally blue-suited and politically conservative Abe and the moustachioed Mario merging into one.

According to business news site Nikkei Asian Review, proposals to recycle electronic waste into gold, silver and bronze medals were discussed in a meeting between Olympics officials and representatives from government and industry. Furthermore, it was reported that the International Olympics committee approved the introduction of baseball, Japan’s most beloved sport.

The two-minute 2020 Tokyo Olympic promo features Abe complaining about being late for the Brazilian closing event. The Internet, predictably, exploded, and the rest of the world was given a peek at just what kind of Nintendo and manga-flavored fun awaits us at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.

She however expressed her “delight” to bring the Olympic flag to Japan again “more than 50 years after the 1964 Olympics“. It is expected that Tokyo 2020 will go off with a bang if people are pressuring the government to properly use all their hard-earned money.