Dictators according to Japan
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I think all the stuff from Japan that makes us go "eh?" or "what?" or "eww" can be justified by saying "Well, it's Japan. That's just what they do."
Several of these have an up-skirt with a well-outlined mons, and you're asking whether we think they're in bad taste? Of course they are, and they're not very funny, either. But then, I don't wish I was Japanese, so I don't instantly attribute cleverness and creativity to anything that resembles anime.
Honestly, though, many of these don't make any sense. Some of them are okay (Pol Pot, for example), but the vast majority of them are just sexualized female forms with a sideways, throwaway reference to the supposed subject material. I mean, honestly, with a few exceptions (Mao, for example), if you just showed this to someone without the label underneath, they'd have no idea it was supposed to be a charicature of that person.
So, overall, yet again the internet has made me feel those same old feelings. Namely,
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dy9pLEUP1qgkmueo1_500.jpg
Honestly, though, many of these don't make any sense. Some of them are okay (Pol Pot, for example), but the vast majority of them are just sexualized female forms with a sideways, throwaway reference to the supposed subject material. I mean, honestly, with a few exceptions (Mao, for example), if you just showed this to someone without the label underneath, they'd have no idea it was supposed to be a charicature of that person.
So, overall, yet again the internet has made me feel those same old feelings. Namely,
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dy9pLEUP1qgkmueo1_500.jpg
Man, that one sentence is Mr. K Dilkington in a nutshellDemon ID said:
OT: Did Hugo Chavez have bleach-blonde hair? It's not really a "gender bend", it looks more like some random girls dressing up in vaguely-related outfits.
But anime makes everything super kawaii desu neeee!!PhiMed said:
...but no, seriously, I totally agree with you.
Haha this was quite funny.
Although I'm not sure they are originally intended to be only dictators, I wonder what the original Japanese cover says. Whether you like the politics of for example Chavez or not it's kind of hard to claim that he is a dictator.
Although I'm not sure they are originally intended to be only dictators, I wonder what the original Japanese cover says. Whether you like the politics of for example Chavez or not it's kind of hard to claim that he is a dictator.
Over hi- her shoulder!Queen Michael said:
Reminds me a lot of <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Powers_Hetalia>this anime, that's supposed to be a historical WWII representation with countries represented by persons.
http://mangamarket.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/hetalia2.jpg
Anime Hitler can invade my pole-land any time she wants.
Apologies for the terrible terrible pun.
I know this is a semi-joke but I can't believe no one's called out the OP for lumping that one crazy subsect of Japan that always churns out the weird stuff with all of Japan. I'm not even close to being a weeaboo but I'm pretty sure this is analogous to grouping all Americans with the WBC. Come on people, Japan does have its crazy shit but sometimes it really is as crazy to them as it is to you or me. Like these pictures. I think.
Oh come on, you have to be very stiff not to have a good chuckle at the genderbent moe versions of dictators. Doesn't matter what you think of Japan, this is just brilliant...GunsmithKitten said:
At last! I can fap to Hitler without feeling gay! ...er... I mean... *cough*
Yeah, as most people have said, if there had been more effort to include characteristics of the dictators in question then I might have liked these. The Hitler one almost has the Hitler fringe and the painting reference, Ceaucescu at least gets the background right, Duvalier kind of got a voodoo reference in there, they got Pinochet's hat right, the massive pile of skulls for pol pot works ok, and why were none of the African dictators black?
That said, Saddam and Mao felt right, something about the hair on Saddam, I think his wife might have had a similar hairstyle or something like that.
Edit: Tojo kind of works too, and the ones from Turkmenistan and Central African Republic, have elements right if I remember my history correctly.
Yeah, as most people have said, if there had been more effort to include characteristics of the dictators in question then I might have liked these. The Hitler one almost has the Hitler fringe and the painting reference, Ceaucescu at least gets the background right, Duvalier kind of got a voodoo reference in there, they got Pinochet's hat right, the massive pile of skulls for pol pot works ok, and why were none of the African dictators black?
That said, Saddam and Mao felt right, something about the hair on Saddam, I think his wife might have had a similar hairstyle or something like that.
Edit: Tojo kind of works too, and the ones from Turkmenistan and Central African Republic, have elements right if I remember my history correctly.
Well, it's not the first time [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/95937-This-Is-the-Best-Trailer-for-a-Japanese-Porn-Game-Ever] famous politicians have been given the good ol' genderbender treatment. If you ever wanted to screw Putin over, that's the game for you.
I wouldn't call it brilliant, but it honestly doesn't bother me that much. I chuckled, I face-palmed, and now I'm going to move on with my life.
I don't really get it...
They appear to be just random drawings with a name that happens to be a dictator below it. A few of them wear uniforms of some kinds but even then there's hardly any link to the dictator they're supposed to represent.
Tell me honestly, how many of them could you guess the identity of without those names displayed?
Weird combination... random softcore porn images with random dictator names below them... But hardly the weirdest coming from Japan.
They appear to be just random drawings with a name that happens to be a dictator below it. A few of them wear uniforms of some kinds but even then there's hardly any link to the dictator they're supposed to represent.
Tell me honestly, how many of them could you guess the identity of without those names displayed?
Weird combination... random softcore porn images with random dictator names below them... But hardly the weirdest coming from Japan.
Your tolerance is appreciated. It's refreshing to see there are still people who have an open mind towards fetishists...Nouw said:
such as myself.
And on that note, damn these dictator babes are sexy. Pol Pot and Mussolini are both 10s. I got the whole collection, and I really wish somebody would buy the book [http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10206181] for me. (Mao is a bit young for me, though.)
*raises hand*Hagi said:
I guessed a few of them. Saddam Hussein, Stalin, Gaddafi, Castro, Mao, honestly I guessed Mussolini even though she doesn't look a lot like him...
I'm inclined to agree that they don't do a good enough job of drawing the connection between the actual dictator and the underage moe girls...but I don't see how this could warrant an "I don't want to live on this planet anymore". Arguably a "this is kind of stupid" would make sense, but even that's a bit much.
Unless people are just using memes and radicalizing their opinions to get a laugh. But no one on the Internet would ever do that.
Unless people are just using memes and radicalizing their opinions to get a laugh. But no one on the Internet would ever do that.
Offended? No, there's nothing really here that's offensive. However the quality isn't very good, or rather I just don't see the point. If it were funny that would be one thing, but the only humor here seems to be "LOL!!! The anime really makes the dictators look so kaiwai, desu!!!" so I just don't see the point.
Actually, you know what, this isn't even remotely funny because it doesn't even look like dictators as anime girls, rather just anime girls cosplaying as dictators.
Actually, you know what, this isn't even remotely funny because it doesn't even look like dictators as anime girls, rather just anime girls cosplaying as dictators.