Truth is stranger than anime....

Have you guys seen this...?

<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml? type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID...>

'A professional wrestler who fought his way to victory in local assembly elections under his ring name and wearing his trademark mask has vowed the mask will not leave his face even after he enters the staid halls of Japanese politics.'

<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml? type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID... 193>

It's the mayor from _The Oblongs_!

Catherine Johnson.

Sasuke is either the fourth or fifth professional wrestler to be elected to public office in Japan. Sasuke is no luchadore, though... the legendary El Santo was buried with his mask on...

Heh. An old wrestler (name escapes me) lives in the Buffalo area and teaches/taught in a suburban school district(Akron, maybe? My mother use to sub in a few towns). When Japanese reporters would come to interview him a couple times a year, he'd put on his mask. So far as the Japanese were to know, he never took it off

Hmmm....nope. This is nowhere near as strange as Excel Saga,