The U.S. is using manga, a Japanese comic book form to promote its tattered military alliance with Japan. Psyops targeting children?
And the racial and sexual politics of the characters are just a little creepy. The blond blue-eyed boy “Usa-kun” protects the house of the girl “Arai Anzu”. When asked why he says “Because we have an alliance…We are ‘Important Friends’.”
Meanwhile, a U.S. marine was arrested as the suspect in another rape of a woman in Okinawa. I guess ‘Important Friends’ expect special privileges from the ones they protect.
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3 August 2010 Last updated at 05:36 ET
Manga to promote US-Japan military alliance
The US military is to use manga-style comics to teach Japanese children about the two countries’ security alliance.
Four comics featuring a Japanese girl and a visiting US boy will be posted online, each exploring how US and Japanese troops work together.
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In it the young girl, Arai Anzu – which sounds like alliance when pronounced by a Japanese person – asks the boy, Usa-kun – a play on USA – why he is protecting her house.
“Because we have an alliance,” he says. “We are ‘Important Friends’.”
“It’s good to have a friend you can rely on to go with you,” the little girl concludes.
Do you think the release of the manga was good timing in regards to the incident in Okinawa?
I wonder if the U.S. would try & distort information to Japanese youths regarding the U.S.
I posted my thoughts about this. You can read it at: http://www.mangatherapy.com/post/907698202/usmilitarymanga