Pikachu and Ash also watch over the crops, which were once destroyed by the tsunami in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
This scarecrow is modelled on Nausicaä, the titular character from the 1984 Ghibli animated feature film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Perhaps soon they’ll add even more anime heroes and heroines to the fields so they can stand out like this Japanese town’s formidable scarecrow collection.