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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Published in 1980 and written by the late Haruo Mizuno, a man so obsessed with American cops that he actually managed to talk the NYPD and LAPD into letting him ride along with officers, this amazing book is but one of dozens he authored on the topic. None sum up the Japanese fascination with the American power aesthetic as much as this fetish-like pastiche of uniform, hamburgers, weapons, and mountains of french fries, though. In spite of the cover, the actual material is all straightforward (even reverential) coverage of American SWAT teams and such. Dig in!

holy shit lmao

[–] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

weapons

billy club and a milkshake

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Milkshake cuck

kelly

(Look up the Japanese RAF, it's some fuckin wild shit and Maoism gone very very wrong)

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Japan has a high volume of wehraboos, so this should not surprise anyone lol

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Funniest shit ever is that those types think Jin-Roh is cool because the Wehrmacht-esque power armor and fail to see that the protagonist literally turns against the fascist government and joins the rebels.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

wow-cool-robot lol. Love everything Oshii got his hands on that I've seen - still need to get around to his run on Urusei Yatsura.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

totally unrelated except that it is a new (unfathomably based) anime I watched recently, have you seen Blue Eye Samurai?

The protag is heavily coded as a trans man and it revolves around Mizu trying to find the four anglos in Japan around the time of the introduction of firearms and kill all of them in a quest for revenge against their father.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

I haven't yet. I've heard good things, but the space in my heart for a cool NGC warrior is currently held by Rose of Versailles lol. Since I'm watching BeruBara with the GPP podcast, I'll probably be ready for Blue Eye Samurai after they've finished the second season.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah I've seen these Japanese hobby magazines before, I know of SF magazine which used to publish Ma.K stuff, Guin Saga and Gundam model kits, I think. Old school otaku stuff is neat, obviously obsessing over cops is not.