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47405 No.47405
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.

A US spokesman said they were intended as a light-hearted explanation of the history of the alliance.

The comics, marking 50 years of the security pact, come amid strained ties over US bases in Okinawa.

The first Japanese-language manga comic, entitled Our Alliance - A Lasting Partnership, will be posted online on Wednesday.

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.
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Major Neal Fisher, deputy director of the US forces' public affairs office in Japan, said the manga were intended as a "light-hearted approach to telling the story of the alliance through the eyes of two young people who are learning why the US military are in Japan".

The manga format was chosen because it was "a very commonly accepted format of media in Japan - it is read as much if not more than newspapers", he added.

Some paper copies of the comics would also be available at bases, he said.

Japan hosts some 47,000 US troops in return for security guarantees from the US, under a security pact agreed in 1960. More than half of these troops are based on the southern island of Okinawa.

Plans to relocate the Futenma airbase from southern to northern Okinawa have caused outrage amongst residents who want the base moved off the island completely.

The row toppled Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, after he was forced to renege on a pledge to re-evaluate the base relocation deal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10851195

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No.47725
Doesn't USA-kun look a lot like Joey from Heroman?

Not that I've ever actually SEEN Heroman.

No.47728
Still better than Shithalia

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>>47731

what is happening in this I DON'T UNDERSTAND

No.47745
>>47696

I'm a bit concerned about the liberal use of quotation marks.

No.47920
Japan is so Tsundere for us.

>S-stupid U-u-usa-kun. It-it's not like I l-l-like you or anything. Get y-your s-stupid bases out of h-here.

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WTF?

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>>47745
Are you "now"?

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I have a theory that this is all just a secret plot to get Japanese kids to become Strike Witches and Hetalia fans.

No.48042
I NEED ART OF --

>>47715

FUCK YES JAPANESE FANARTISTS

No.48053
Requesting hilarious rule 34 of this comic. We all know Japan has made some by now

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>>48053
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/usa-kun/1
Oh hai.

...I really like the one with the carrot for some reason. :\

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>>48075

Can't wait until someone makes a nuclear rape hentai of Usa-kun and Arai.

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>>48098

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>>48190

Looks like she is going to make his fatman explode!

No.48215
Apparently the creator of the comic is being harassed.

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/08/15/us-military-moe-mangaka-harassed/

No.48225
>>48215
Not overly surprising. Kinda funny that someone who's described as "non-political" would work on something with such clear political interest. Overall I think the article's closing paragraph says it best:
"In any case, it certainly seems naive on the part of the mangaka to think that penning a manga in support of Japan’s highly controversial (if widely supported) military dependence on the USA would pass without notice."

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I want one!

No.48298
I need fanart of Usa-kun and Finn adventuring together. :3

No.48305
"We've been friends for 50 years!"

"Wait, but how did we first become friends Usa-Kun?"

"Well uh erm....... You started being a bully to the rest of the neighborhood, and eventually you threw some rocks and broke my shed. So I came and beat you up. But then I fixed your house and tried to become friends with you. Rus-San started causing trouble so I needed to use your house as a way to keep an eye on him. I've been here ever since."

"Oh, is that how it happened? I always forget."

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>>48253
>Double team whoop ass!
That combined with the utter cuteness is win.

>>48298
Seconded.
I'm also now imagining Arai having science fun with Princess Bubblegum.

>>48305
Heh.

No.48316
>>48305
You forgot the earlier bit when she was a recluse and he shook his fist at her until she agreed to share her stuff and she ended up having an identity crisis.

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>>48316
"But it all started even earlier than that, when I came over and asked to play and you shuffled your feet and stared at the floor and made an excuse so I came back with a water hose and shook it menacingly at you until you said 'Okay, let's play.'"

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>>48329
And then Matthew Perry jumps in from offscreen trying to hit on Arai's sexy Dutch baby-sitter joking, "could these two BE any cuter together?"

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>>48348
I see what you did there. And I approve.

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>>48544
heheh



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