Japanese man uses leftover cartons to make cardboard weapons, videos go viral

Named as 'Crafty Transformer', this Japanese man uses the cardboards to make swords, movable robotic arms and popular games' weapons like 'Green Dragon Crescent Blade'.

Named as 'Crafty Transformer', he makes mind-blogging, intricate cardboard things -- from simple looking swords, to fully mechanical, movable robotic arms and popular games' weapons like 'Green Dragon Crescent Blade'.

The man’s creative skills is blowing people’s minds online.

With online shopping being the order of the day, carboard boxes that come wrapped around the items often find themselves going into the dustbins. But this Japanese man uses the cartons to make quirky weapons and games and his videos have earned him many avid followers.

Named as ‘Crafty Transformer’, this Japanese man uses the cardboards to make swords, movable robotic arms and popular games’ weapons like ‘Green Dragon Crescent Blade’.

Although he mostly shares his videos on his YouTube channel, one of his videos recently went viral on Twitter after one user shared a combined clip of all his cool artworks.

Crafty Transformer seems to be making a much better use of his Amazon boxes than the rest of us 😯 (take note, Nintendo labo dev team) pic.twitter.com/NwtbAdvzst

— 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖆 ✣ 𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖉 🌑 👽 (@VPestilenZ) August 29, 2019

With 7 million views on Twitter, it has stunned many online.

This is some crafty stuff owo https://t.co/tCoB8K488L

— Workaholic Marshmallow Fluff (@VikenW) September 2, 2019

This is too good https://t.co/uFNVoMRrCI

— Josh (@LivingRangerKey) September 1, 2019

@Kurigamesalot I think this person pushed it to the next level ! https://t.co/gPZBVAoJXC

— RealMadvicius (@RealMadvicius) September 2, 2019

The man was awarded PhD in creativity https://t.co/MqRpgNzRzb

— Gaurav Wadhwani (@im_GauravW) September 1, 2019

It’s up to you to make things shine. Got alot of cardboard boxes? Get to work. Its ur story, so become the hero you were meant to become. https://t.co/Qmwn8547vm

— 🌸 Panduh 🌸 (@CeejayPanduh) September 1, 2019

This guy is epic. https://t.co/rsLLDS83s6

— ChengY🍂 (@YangCzy50) September 1, 2019

This is the best way of recycling!😍✨ https://t.co/Gd4FPjSic1

— Cha🙃🌈 (@chachadeul) September 1, 2019

Box transformation Level : Asian https://t.co/x2PzTmXAKD

— Fangh ☠ (@FanghGD) August 31, 2019

Goddam is this guy awesome… he is using his time better than we do 😅 https://t.co/zTccaNslAx

— Anti-Freeze (@Anti_Freeze00) August 31, 2019

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In case you’re amazed and want to try it yourself, here are a few of his tutorials: