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American Police (hexbear.net)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

weapons

billy club and a milkshake

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Milkshake cuck

kelly

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Good LORD I haven't seen this meme picture since at least 2008.

Back then we called the pictures "macros", do kids still know what that is? We're not talking about VBA here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I think I remember seeing this on the Something Awful forums back in the day

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

"Image macros"... fuck it's been a minute

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

More headlines from the Burgerpunk future past

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I like how this implies that he went to 5 different fast food restaurants before sitting down and gorging himself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

John 8:7

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

You mix a bunch of fast food restaurants together. I mix a bunch of random stuff from home with my fast food. We 👏 are 👏 not 👏 the 👏 same 👏

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Amerikan Porisu! I'm doing it! I'm learning!🥳

It makes head hurt though.😅 Also, fonts and colors make everything harder.