Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/18/osanaetoki-bankokubanashi.html
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Cool! I’m looking forward to the film version with Daniel Day Lewis as the all devouring snake.
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It’s been a while since I could dig out this meme but it seems appropriate.
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Obviously, this should all be considered canon.
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How is this “fanfic”?
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Yeah, I was expecting Cornwallis/Washington.
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Propaganda has to be efficient first and make proper sense never. Could have been written by Trump.
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This has chopping cherry trees and pitching silver dollars across the Potomac beat all hollow.
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I suppose the starting point was Ben Franklin’s insufficiently-captioned cartoon?
(Unfortunate that Ms. Beaton seems to have given up on her website of late.)
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One of my favorite sports used to be laughing at the awful beat-you-over-the-head-with-the-point over-labeling in the typical newspapers’ political cartoon. Something I’m not sad to see die with newspapers.
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As a cartoonist myself I’ve noticed this thing where white American cartoonists and illustrators (especially those not raised on manga and anime) have a really hard time drawing Asian faces in a convincing way. I think the opposite is sometimes true also (I assume sailor moon is supposed to be a blonde white girl right? I really can’t tell other than her hair color) But I kinda like how this artist didn’t even try to make the European Americans in his story look non-Japanese.
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This is no more fanciful than Americans’ notions of other countries’ history.
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To be frank, this is no more fanciful than Americans’ notions of American history.
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Yup. We were responsible for winning WWII and defeating Communism, after all.
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Eh, the Anime is better.
Also George Washington punching a tiger would be a kick ass motif for a T-shirt.
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All thanks to Davy Crockett, and no one else.
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“Washington’s ‘second-in-command’ John Adams battling an enormous snake”; “George Washington straight-up punching a tiger”; a snake eating John Adams’s mother and seeking help to avenge himself upon the snake from “a magical mountain fairy”; and so on.
Jesus. These are the stories that we, as Americans, have desperate need of.
This is very true.
This is extremely true. And I have to say, I like these American fairy tales better than the ones I grew up with. Less damaging, if nothing else.
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Early Manga.
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Sort of like… Abraham Lincoln, Vampire-slayer.
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