A recently published collection of illustrations turning some of history’s most odious dictators into cute and sexy moe bishoujo has been pre-emptively slammed by the Japanese themselves for its historical insensitivity…
The mook (“magazine/book”) in question is “Nyotaika!! Dictators of the World,” on sale in Akiba and elsewhere – a sampling of its contents:
Chairman Mao, of the PRC, has understandably been arousing comment even in China:
Kim Il-sung, of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea:
Saddam Hussein, of Iraq:
Adolf Hitler, of Germany (the palette and paintbrush alludes to Hitler’s failed career as an artist):
Joseph Stalin, of the USSR:
Benito Mussolini, of Italy:
Pol Pot, of Cambodia:
Josip Tito, of Yugoslavia:
Fidel Castro, of Cuba:
Rafael Trujillo, of the Dominican Republic:
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, of Libya:
Omar al-Bashir, of Sudan:
The rest:
For now the mook seems to be in more danger of outraging the Japanese than the foreign hordes, if the sort of reaction visible online is anything to go by:
“This is in terrible taste – why do otaku have no sense when it comes to this?”
“This is poor taste. You shouldn’t make light of historical wounds like this. This shames all Japanese.”
“The trouble with these moe images is that they do not incorporate any of the historical circumstances of each personage, that’s why they aren’t really funny.”
“You might as well realise a book of moe serial killers. The level of bad taste is the same.”
“Definitely banned in Germany.”
“Kim, please join AKB48!”
“The one of Pol Pot is absolutely out there. Just embarrassing. You call yourselves famous illustrators! For shame! Actually none of them are famous so I guess that doesn’t matter.”
“Funny that we Japanese go nuts over anything ‘insensitive’ relating to 3/11, radiation, the atomic bombings, or his imperial majesty, and then we come out with this stuff. Is it OK just because these countries are far away?”
“This is definitely something I wouldn’t want my overseas friends to see!”
“Because all the sites are picking this up there is a danger people overseas might find out about this!”
“Once this is pirated and uploaded online there is no going back for the publisher! You can’t withdraw it then!”
“I’ve rarely been so uncomfortable about something like this. Die, illustrators and publisher! You shame Japan! This is taking things too far!”
“Is this how we repay the kind nations who helped us after 3/11! This is on the same level as China or Korea! I wish I could believe this is all a plot to make people think that!”
“Guys you are being way to serious. Save your mock outrage for FB and Twitter please.”
“Why so serious in here…”
“Quit whining about it you morons. It is for Japanese niche consumption. At worst 4chan and some Chinese boards will hear of it, CNN isn’t going to be all over it like they were with Rapelay. Get off the Internet, fools.”
“Idiotic books like this are the reason China and Korea constantly accuse us of having an incorrect understanding of history.”
“Who knows what reaction this stuff could provoke? Especially when dealing with the Islamic world, they going crazy over mockery there.”
“It isn’t going to sell much, but does risk provoking overseas wrath. Why release something like this?”
“Get over it. It’s on the same level as some of our weird porn videos. All this can be taken as evidence that Japan is genuinely a nation enjoying healthy freedom of expression, so pay it no mind.”
“There’s worse stuff out to there to get upset over. This country really is peaceful to get worked up over something like this.”
“Hitler is weak. Without being told so you’d never guess it was him. If you’re going to draw dictators, at least draw them with some of their demonic qualities shown through strongly.”
“The girls here are basically just wearing some of the dictator’s outfits.”
“Right, what are we looking at? They don’t even resemble their models properly. What’s the point of turning them into girls if they have none of the original’s characteristics?”
“Stalin is clearly tops here”
There is also the rather perplexing “I wish the Japanese would stop this stuff – Japan has never known the true horrors of dictatorship.”
Whatever the reaction it provokes, the tome should at least be free from accusations of political bias in Japan’s favour – Hideki Tojo is included (though not, of course, Japan’s wartime and postwar emperor, who by some accounts was just as culpable).
Moe cult leaders, anyone?
I don’t see enough stories about Japanese anime/manga fans and gamers who vocally dislike the trend of making everything moe or kawaisa, or rebuking culturally insensitive, socially unaware otaku. It’s refreshing, to be honest.
“You might as well realise a book of moe serial killers.”
DO WANT!
Make a Hentai and subject them all to Tentacle Rape !!! Nice way to shame them too ROFL
A joke is a joke of course, of course and no one can joke about a joke of course….
Where is Che Guevarra-Tan? XD
I’d prefer the Hitler-kun fomr Afterschool charisma 😛
This is too lol
awww… I wanna give Hitler a hug. lmao! (Never thought I’d say such a weird thing!)
Pol Pot, of Cambodia and Raeful best moe ever
no aladeen 🙁
How can they call them Stalin and Hitler without their respective mustaches…?
Actually this gallery can’t match with other countries’s political cartoon.
I love how out of all the dictators in the list. Pol Pot was the only one that couldnt be given any sort of positive light at all. Like even with the most notorious of them, such as Hitler and Stalin, did positive things at some point to either gain the peoples’ trusts or just by some sort of accident, or boosted morale somehow.
Pol Pot was just a straight up monster. Seized power violently, took over, immediately moved the entire urban population into the countryside, most of them being resigned to death for varying reasons, and killed even more just for shits and giggles, and even more died from starvation, and led a great example of how not to run things. Beyond that, he did nothing.
I hope I can still get a copy.
Hitler, Pol Pot and Hussein-chan…
apparently people who says it’s a shame have their panties in a knot. this is why humanity can’t move on for the better. they’re too serious in clinging to the past. im not saying remembering the past is a bad thing but the guys there are mostly dead. they couldn’t even lift a finger so what difference does it make?
I want to see the page with Ferdinand Marcos!
2012, the World is now fapping to Hitler.
Where’s Ishihara?
Also, how about Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines?
Just when you think the Japanese can’t surprise you any more, they do. This is linked here:
http://ex-army.blogspot.com/2012/12/christmas-shopping-easier-in-japan-or.html
Woot, finally found the torrent.
I must confess that I wouldn’t mind a dictatorship like this…
I just realized something most of the ones who really killed a lot of people are lolis.
The more they killed the flatter the chest.
Yeah this rendition of Saddam looks bad-ass. And Josip Tito looks totally cuddly. I personally wouldn’t mind having a little “dick-tation” from pol pot 😛
Hitler never looked so adorable. I just know I’m going to Hell for that remark.
Meanwhile in parallel world…
Must be a Japanese thing to be ashamed of things that you shouldn’t be ashamed of… In America, people always (yes, always) make jokes about tragic things… even 9/11… Of course, not all make jokkes or think anything regarding 9/11 could be funny, and I don’t blame them… but that happened onlt 11 years ago; most of these dictators are old news!
http://goo.gl/855ZV
“You might as well realise a book of moe serial killers”.
FUND IT!
Like Japan’s emperor was much different..
Hah..
Mao Zedong is a real cutie.
…Did I just type that?
I’m high as shit and I find it funny
“Who knows what reaction this stuff could provoke? Especially when dealing with the Islamic world, they going crazy over mockery there.”
Why would they? The dictators are evil :/
Omar is best. Love girls in sexy uniforms.
I want see Idi Amin!
I Didin’t See The Picture Of Philippine Dictator, Someone Knows About It?
She’s the iincho looking girl with the long black hair and the adorable smile.
question for History Pro:
If Hitler success her paiting career, will we be able to avoid WWII ?
no, hitler was just the tip of a huge iceberg
I am not into anime lately, but if they made something like that into anime or at least manga, I would definitively watch it. It would be hilarious!
Kin Il SUNG is a singer… I see you did there Japan.
MOE!
Pol Pot looks really sexy xD
What a delightful bunch of mass moe-durers!
Now all they need is to animate this and watch the lulz.
here is the rest, probably. have fun. http://zonaforo.meristation.com/foros/viewtopic.php?t=2021924&start=0
Where is Marcos?
I’m from Central America and I found em really funny , i like em…. there’s no dictactor from Guatemala awn…. come on!, Chavez is really hot!
Is it bad that I kinda wanna fuck Mussolini?
“Because all the sites are picking this up there is a danger people overseas might find out about this!”
Too late ^_^
Wait. Why now?
A bunch of otakus who never go out of their basement to vote or serve their own government actually care about politics and insensitivity?
I find the lack of moe God disturbing, after all, christians and muslims are frequently killing in his name, no one else would have a larger killrate.
Also, where’s Moe bin Laden?
Is it any kind of coincidence that Hitler looks like a black-haired Kirino?
Heh, whatever. *fapfapfapfapfapfap*
Kirino is Hitler.
IRL, dictators are pretty much bastards.
But through the magic of moe and genderbending, they become instantly become innocent {probable exception to Pol Pot} and kawaii.
Hmm wish they would throw in some more accuracy. Like Hitler’s paint stuff is a nice touch. Gadaffi looks pretty similar to the real.
Not much a fan of Mao’s or Mussolini’s. They couldve been done better IMO. Also what the fuck is up with Kim? I dont see any similarities to the actual.
But yeah if someone wants to upload this anywhere….
“You might as well realise a book of moe serial killers. The level of bad taste is the same.”
Type-Moon gets away with moe Jack the Ripper, your move 2ch.
Dahmer-chan is gonna be kawaii as fuck. So too is Gacy-chan.
Dat Omar al-Bashir…
Oppai ga suki!
I can’t wait for the Figma released set!
Dumb. BANG-YOU, Houtengeki, I am disappoint.
Still, no such thing as bad publicity, so of course it’ll sell…
My dictators can’t be this cute!
Where is president Soeharto? let me see some love for Indonesian too
Japan can be so insensitive when it comes to other countries. Yet they’re the first to try and play the victim every August 6th.
where is Ferdinand Marcos on their lists?! oh well. History REVERTS a lot.
None Dictator Brazilian in the book? In period of 1964 and 1985 various military dictators dominated the government…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_(Brazil)
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Artur da Costa e Silva, “Brazilian Military Junta of 1969”, Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Ernesto Geisel and João Figueiredo.
i demand a anime to be created!
Someone get 4leaf studios. We need a dictator shoujo!
HNNNNGGGGG! I’m taking Hitler home with me!
I see lots of tators that could use a dic!
so kim il-sung secretly wore the females navy uniform and was secretly an idol o_0
sweet lord, even Fidel Castro looks good
These comments by the Japanese are strangely sensitive, they badmouth the Chinese and Koreans constantly (and even here) and now we get this.
In fairness, this the context of the comments matters – hardcore 2ch threads vs comments on Twitter or a site reposting the thread for a wider audience can attract a different crowd. Even on 2ch the response can vary hugely depending on which board it was posted to.
I have no problem with this. Modern/future dictators can learn something from it.
“Stalin is clearly tops here”
And of course they’re all white as xerox paper.
{i}“You might as well realise a book of {b}moe serial killers.”{/i}{/b}
[i]“You might as well realise a book of [b]moe serial killers.”[/i][/b]
The next book in the series.
Let’s get a head start on this. Anyone here able to make Charles Manson moe?
I’d penetrate Stalin’s iron curtain.
I’d simply fuck her.
“Stalin is clearly tops here”
at least this guy knows the truth! Behold! Our mighty leader!
I’m more irked at the fact that they didn’t even try to make the girls look like they came from their countries. Well, except for Hitler.
Judging from the reaction here, nobody really gives a fuck. In fact, I’d go so far as to say, if this bothers you, you should be ashamed.
Hell, I’d buy this just for the hilarious trolling, the artwork is pretty good too.
Anyone who takes it too seriously needs to re-examine their lives.
I want to be stepped on by Joseph Stalin
oh internet, y u tease with low rez pics?
Hitler is my waifu.
Nothing on Richard Nixon?
This book is for actual dictators, not made up stuff.
So, where is Richard Nixon?
Most people of the ex Yugoslavia agree that Tito time was the best time our countries ever had. “Bringing old wounds to light?” More like refreshing nostalgic memories.
Most people are various degrees of dumb. I wouldn’t call popular opinion “objective”.
Stalin would totally be a yandere.
History dictates that Stalin was quite paranoid, and quite extreme.
Now, there’s one step forward to make:
A Downfall parody on the tube!
Funny to see heartless by proxy 4chan dwellers asking for Noriega-tan or Chavez-chan
Never thought I’d ever say I wish I could fuck Saddam Hussein and Pol Pot, but it’s not the first time Anime has made me said things I never thought I’d say.
It’s like that one anime what is it? Axis Powers Hetalia where they turn the Axis into some fujoshi-bait baking anime?
I can now imagine Kim in Macross
キラッ☆!
Very relevant link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWUue_Cf9g
NK hymn could use some remix, though…
I’d penetrate Hitler’s front line and then penetrate her rear defenses, if you know what I mean.
Then I can call upon my allies to destroy whatever is left. We’ll strategically take turns with the front, while the others viciously attack from behind. Then we’ll carry out a number of controlled explosion all over her messy white territory and make her lick it clean afterwards.
stalin looks badass and cute there dammit !
Hitler all the way. Too cute!
Les faltó poner a Porfirio Díaz, a Antonio López de Santa Anna y al régimen semi-dictatorial del PRI, Ya que México es de los pocos países con mas de una dictadura.
They lacked Porfirio Díaz, Antonio López de Santa Anna and the semi-dictatorial regimen of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party in Spanish). Since Mexico is among the few countries with more than one dictatorship.
I don’t know why they have Mustafa Kamal Ataturk in there as a dictator. He is considered the father of the modern Turkish State and it’s first president. On a visit to turkey several years ago I asked a friend about Ataturk and he said “Ataturk is my father, He is my country” and he wasn’t kidding around.
“Because all the sites are picking this up there is a danger people overseas might find out about this!”
Too late.
When you own a company or product, you soon realize any attention (good or bad) is good overall for you.
The world needs a Joshi Pro title using the No Mersey engine, so I can turn all of these into CAWs and hold the ultimate battle royale for the dictatorship world title.
i appreciate the japanese comments on this. as much, as i despise the comments here on sancom. but it’s just what has to be expected from that bunch of retards.
For volume #2; terrorist edition, featuring Osama bin Laden, Aum Shinrikyo, etc
Sensitivity be damned! This is totally and utterly awesome.
Yeah, the only ones who might have a problem with this are those “normals”.
Somehow i miss Hirohito in that list.
And where in the harvest criminals emperor Hirohito
He is a monarch, not a dictator.
Well, there is Tojo.
I guess the “absence” is more about ignorance/different views than saving Japan’s face (I mean… difficult to do that in a book with Stalin-nyan, anyway…).
Also, there are no royals here. I mean, there’s no Queen Victoria, and Indians MAY have something to tell you about her (and not only her in the Windsor family).
dunno, seems like a rare piece of satire to me. Intentional or not.
http://imgur.com/a/UBc8p#0
The whole set. You’re welcome
Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu were brilliant.
The backdrop, the helicopter, the perforated flags, everything.
Simply brilliant.
Evita Yuffie and Duvalier as a witch were epic. Thanks, mate.
(Kenyatta and Ataturk are considered dictators, anyway? Honest question)
I mentioned the same thing about Ataturk somewhere else in the post. If you visit Turkey he is looked upon as the father of the modern Turkish state. Like George Washington is in the States. Never seen him portrayed as a dictator.
You don’t have to be bad to be a dictator, just assume absolute power without being publicly elected.
Same with Piłsudski in Poland.
Thank you so much! LMAO!
NOW history lessons are interesting.
This is hilarious! I’d buy it 😛
A bila je tako lijepa… Jugoslavija!
if only they really looked like that the world might have been a better place….
Kim Il Sung looks like a Tundereka.
No Afghan warlord so we can call it the Tsundeban?
If japs really want to know why no one takes their sensitivities seriously, they should stop making a fuss about cartoons and do something about their base mentality.
For once, I want japan to make an anime about Zainichi koreans and korean forced laborers during ww2, and their plights about losing their homeland for real and forced to be part of japanese imperialism.
As in, the currently airing Bokoku no Akito Code Geass OVA should instead make ‘akito’ actually zainichi korean, ‘elevens’ actually ‘chosenjin’, Leila in to black haired yamato nadeshiko that knows taekwondo and is destined to fall into love with the actually oppressed lone boy solider known as ‘akito’ while fighting to save korea from brutal japanese occupation, all the while remembering how her family escaped from japan because they disagreed with shift into militarism and discrimination against their asian neighbors.
Instead, we have Code Geass fantasy land where japs can masturbate to their laughable idea of victimhood and try desperately to convince themselves that they are always the innocent, poor children being bullied by the evil world power that is not-so-subtly the west and USA.
Bitch please.
Of course, something as truthful and honest as that is never something japanese will have the guts to do.
What? no Obama? he’s been America’s worst dictator ever.
OP hates black people
Don’t you mean George W.?
Already pretty moe by 3d standards.
Lol this is hilarious, as long as it isnt making them out to be awesome and just ridiculing them- brilliant satire. The Sudan guy I think is like really strict islamist , thus such a humiliating portrayal of him!!! HAHAHA
[i]as long as it isnt making them out to be awesome[/i]
But it is!
I like it how the people they’re representing look absolutely nothing like them in anyway shape or form.
>would smash Castro with the “Cuban Missile Crisis*”
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Cuban Missile Crisis is equal or greater than the power of a thousand suns*
I want to send my missile straight into Castro.
I want to sniff Mussolini’s pantsu.
Josip Tito: “~Ara ara~”
Josip Tits-o.
What, no bin Laden?!
Since when did he run a country?
But yeah, moerrorist galley is due.
He used to lead an army of fundamentalists, not a country.
>deculture
macross much?
id do em all as long as they don’t kill me for it and maybe correct some of there mistakes so they don’t fail.
It just looks incredibly stupid. And I don’t mean offensive by that. Just plain old “roll your eyes” lame. SOme dorks think moe just improves things automatically, but to me looks like a major reach to be noticed by nerds.
…but turning the Sengoku era generals into moe girls in countless japmedia is OK, eh ?
Well, the difference here is that there are still people around who have lost friends/relations to such people. Not everyone finds it cute to have the one who butchered your family portrayed in such a manner. *shrugs* weird huh?
Omar Al-Bashir is the hottest.
And Pol Por is creepy hot.
The fact that there is a Pol Pot one is simply utterly disgusting.
Why would a collection of autocrats omit one of the most notable? In spite of the moe, this is a teaching tool.
In absolute terms, Pot’s far from the most murderous. (in proportional terms, though…)
That’s funny because her picture is far the best in the book. And probably the only which you can recognize even without a national flag.
Stalin moe~moe kyun ☆~(ゝ。∂)
Stalin beam☆attack!
What the fuck ?
Holy crap, did I just fap to Pinochet?
Pol Pot
dear god give that to me.
Hitler cawaiiii 8-3
Oh it’s nothing we don’t expect, Japan.
I happen to belong to several classes of people the nazis persecuted and I just love this artbook’s Hitler-chan!
Pino-chan is mai waifu.
Awww how cuuute! They really DID do “Pol Pot”!!!
‘coz I imagined saying “Where’s the Moe Moe Pol Pot” to a lot of jeers and “u a jerk” anon trolls, but whoops, there she is!
Sooner or later, IMO, they are going to do a “Moe Moe Rape of Nanking”… That’ll be a real riot… Especially when they make the Kawaii Guro toys in CHINA…
“Worker! Why you riot? We are people’s republic?”
“Official! I know Marx say last Kapitalist sell us rope to hang him… But this… THIS!?”
Shows massive 2nd/3rd printing of Moe Moe Rape of Nanking and the first wave of “Nanking Guro Moe” toys to come out, all of it covered in lettering insulting China, making it that as if the USA went back into 1900s “Yellow Peril” mode and cute FuManchu toys they’d seem tame in comparison…
Official: “Find person who take order! Have him shot!”
Ferdinand Marcos has to be in there… oh, wait. That would be Imelda’s 9000+ pairs of shoes nvm
If they really were that cute irl………yea….
Hitler-san, you’re so artistic!
swoon*
My little Pinochet can’t be this hot.
“Definitely banned in Germany.”
Only if they left in the swastika. All Nazi paraphernalia is outlawed there. But beyond that, there’s not much Germany would or could do about an edition released there.
You can still show in art or for scientific reasons, so this may actually pass.
Woow, look at that Tito…
haha..
After this, FUCK DEMOCRACY
Not Hiro Ito who killed millions of chineses, and people of the island of pacific and the same young japanese guys who died in the stupids kamikaze attacks??? FAIL….SUPRA FAIL.
“Once this is pirated and uploaded online there is no going back for the publisher! You can’t withdraw it then!”
You heard him, faggots. Get to scanning already!
where is ishihara
One could make the point that even Japan can’t make Ishihara moe, but who knows.
need more of this, taste? rather look at some fake cartoon 2d girl than some old sweaty dudes
If this is upsetting people why didnt daiteikoku do the same? Its portrayal of mussolini, hitler and “katherine” was hilarious but a bit in bad tastes. Idolism instead of fashism 😀
Anyway, this isnt the first time japan has moeified dictators. I dont really think there is anything overtly wrong about it. Tis meant as a parady is all.
Like a weird modern japanese political satire cartoon.
Well so long as it doesn’t glorify them, I’m fine with it. If it just portrays them as cute little girls then it takes away from their nefarious reputation (and it could be argued, political appeal as well).
They should have had the Showa emperor there, or at least Hideki Tojo. Maybe some American mass murderer too like Curtis Le-May or LBJ.
Hideki Tojo is in the book.
This is desensitization at its finest. Completely desensitizes these dictators and their acts. This however is both good and bad. The desensitization may help those affected move on or help reduce their perceived effects on the world, but sadly doesn’t do justice to their victims… Kinda torn here.
Sengoku Collection 2. I call it, folks.
So, if we’re talking about dictators, where’s the ones (currently) for Iran and Syria?
Al-Assad is in the gallery. No Ahmadinejahd though. Shame, he’s such clearly a tsundere.
That’s because he’s no dictator. Ugh, American propaganda makes me sick.
He’s not a dictator because he doesn’t have the real power, dhimmi.
WHERE’S MY KHOMEINI?
It’s not that stuff like this has never been parodyed before in Manga.
Supersayian Hitler?
Afuganisu-tan?
Сталин МОЭ!
Dat Mussolini
Yeah. Boobs, galsses….. they did improve his looks.
Bald of (supposed) GAR-ness would’ve been pretty difficult to do…
Yup. She should be of course a densha-wota as well, and you know why.
The only problem is the shirt, Mussolini always wore black shirts (as all the fascists).
I’d like to see her cutting grain like he did tho…
Well, this is kind of non-making-sense stuff from Japan everyone is fond of. Is it available for purchase? For dirty foreigners, I mean.
Shouldn’t Ghaddafi have an army of bishoujos? You know, the amazon brigade. In general many of them are pretty generic. And what the hell is with Kim Jong the idol?
Tito and the mini-nations was awesome and right to the point, though. Sequel in the ninties wasn’t so daww, I guess.
…. I’m an Italian, democratic as you can get, and Mussolini made me laugh… but I still feel a little dirty.
(you know what they should do? A Civilization leaders moe-mod. Ghandi is such a motherfucking nuclear yandere already.)
[quote]And what the hell is with Kim Jong the idol?[/quote]
Ever heard the term “cult of personality”?
Hrm. You are probably right, but I hoped for something more lol-prone like “he was a singer in his youth”.
Wow trujillo in as an anime character lol
This is more educational book really. For one illustration there are 2-3 pages of small letter text.
And it’s more like “bunch of random girls pose as historical people from 20th century”.
Best ones are Noriega, Saddam and Pinochet…
I always liked Pinochet’s uniforms, especially the hat! Dictators always have great tailors.
They are DILFs. Dictators I love to fuck!!!!!!
More like Dictators I’d Like to RAPE!!!
Okay…good art, poor form.
Am I offended? Nah. Just think that sometimes it’s better to leave well enough alone.
[i]“Once this is pirated and uploaded online there is no going back for the publisher! You can’t withdraw it then!”[/i]
Already did. :3
Hussein is fucking hot.
No Aladeen? I’d like to see Moe Aladeen
You win 4 Aladeens.
You win 4 internets.
Kim Il Sung – such a pretty petite pioneer of mass poverty and star of starvation.
“This is definitely something I wouldn’t want my overseas friends to see!”
“Because all the sites are picking this up there is a danger people overseas might find out about this!”
It’s too late 2ch! I’m gonna post Stalin on Russian board.
I like it. History is something that should not be forgotten. So a spin on it in this way is refreshing and artistic. If your so sensitive about an artistic rendition you have serious problems.
I’d buy one if it was translated in english :3
Just can’t say no to moe dictators.
I remember the artist of #8 from an older mook series called MC Axis. He illustrated a parody on the leaders of WW2, depicted as school girls (naturally).
Adolf was pretty funny though, if you’re not offended by such parodies.
But where is history’s greatest monster-Jimmy Carter?
I wouldn’t have thought something could be at the same time extremely cute and extremely deplorable.
i don’t see too much to be offended about here. perhaps it’s a transgressive concept. well, i have to say i like it. on the symbolic level, i find this to be some form of “comedic relief,” even if it’s in bad taste. some of the artists could’ve done a better job though.
“Quit whining about it you morons. It is for Japanese niche consumption. At worst 4chan and some Chinese boards will hear of it, CNN isn’t going to be all over it like they were with Rapelay. Get off the Internet, fools.”
Now I kinda want to make CNN aware of this, just to troll them.
“A recently published collection of illustrations turning some of history’s most odious dictators into cute and sexy moe bishoujo has been pre-emptively slammed by the Japanese themselves for its historical insensitivity”
And yet no one bitches when Japan changes WWII events so that Japan is on the Allied Forces side, like in Strike Witches.
In Strike Witches even germany(karlsland) is on the “allied” side you moron… Minna, Erica and Hartmann are all from there.
Strike Witches are about girls in panties flying around (read: fictional setting)FFS.
Jesus ppl are so sensitive
SO WAS GERMANY AND ITALY!!!
The idea in Strike Witches was that WWII never happened and all of the human race allied together to fight the alien menace.
That Hitler!
That Saddam!
Personally i liked the character of Hitler more then the one of Sadam .. its just cuter
That Stalin!
I propose from now on that we call her Stalinyan.
Well, I have to say I don’t see the problem here, even when I’m Chinese. The book is just an illustration collection, nothing really that deep, why not just ignore those stupid “sensitive contents” and enjoy the hard works from the artists?
Smile more, people
“Funny that we Japanese go nuts over anything ‘insensitive’ relating to 3/11, radiation, the atomic bombings, or his imperial majesty, and then we come out with this stuff. Is it OK just because these countries are far away?” Wow someone give this man a medal because he speaks the truth.
Sad thing is, everything the guy mentions is 100% worth going nuts over. Radiation was a threat to Japan’s citizens, bombings resulted in thousands of needless casualties, the emperor is a figure of great respect, whereas this booklet is just a collection of artwork, a work of humor.
The guy is an idiot.
Yep, it’s worth bitching about the nukes, and I’m totally serious. It’s worth bitching about that and political figures who made possibile the epic fail of Japan in ’44-45 or who supports sad political figures, even in retrospect.
In other words, it’s worth bitching about political figures at the helm of Japan that times, like Hirohito.
Yeah, ’cause the bombings weren’t due to some political choices made also by the imperial house.
Oh, wait…
Guys, respect to political figures is NEVER automatical. NEVER.
No, he doesn’t. He terribly failed his check at reality.
I find Kim Il-sung quite cute.
I just thought she was weird… She doesn’t really have anything that links her to Kim Il-sung, unless it’s a take on similarities between japanese idols and the worship of NK leaders…which would be pretty darn ingenious.
It’s like they drew a random idol picture, then said “Let’s make this… uh… Kim Il-sung.” She doesn’t even look Asian, let alone anything remotely like him. Even her attire doesn’t look like anything he would be associated with wearing. I thought it was maybe the wrong caption at first, but the name tag verifies it’s meant to be him.
The rest of the girls don’t look much like their corresponding dictators either, but rather like random girls doing a poor job at cosplaying them. Overall, this collection is pretty poorly done.
Consider for a moment that near all of those dictators are incredibly ugly, so moefying them will take a lot of effort to get it kinda right. Kim-Il Sung’s idolization is properly parodied by turning him into a moe idol singer. Besides, have you never noticed Anime girls usually don’t look Asian?
So all CIA needs to do to stop NK regime is posting pics of Kim Jong-un sleeping with someone?
BRILLIANT!
She looks like Rumia.
Kawaii Hitler is Kawaii.
The actual detail put in this stuff is incredible. The paint in Hitler’s image allures to his failed paintor career; just like Gaddafi is painting Lybia’s flag green and Trujillo renames Santo Domingo “Ciudad Trujillo”, and Hussein with his gold AK 47.
Fantastic work, seriously.
Wonders how this is different from My Girlfriend is The President
The whole oppression thing.
Hail Hitler!
Kawaii Hitler was totally tsuntsun, that’s why all those Jews were burnt & gassed.
I-it’s not like I want to gas you or anything, baka! Now get in that oven!
Ngahahahaha! LMAO!
to Anon 04:17 11/12/2012
And I thought Hitler was Yan-dere like FlandreScarlet.
She ask people to “play” follow her game rule and people just can’t continue.
*quoted* “This is definitely something I wouldn’t want my overseas friends to see!”
sorry, we already seen. But allow us to ask you guys why didn’t you want us to see ?
my guess was: you guys don’t want to share ?
I think they were just afraid we’d take these seriously.
Which we won’t, because it’s amusing and obviously something made for the sake of being amusing.
Sharing is caring and you know how these people care about us
Hitler-chan doesn’t just love painting, she also loves baking. 😀
(Please send me one ticket for the bullet train to hell asap)
Isn’t that how all serial killers began? 😉
In it she baked bugs and small critters alive.
Hitler-chan’s favorite toy growing up was her Easy-Bake Oven. 😉
Hitler-chan likes to think of herself as a great artist, but the truth is her paints are horrible. Everyone at school made fun of her, so she decided to kill them all. Hitler-chan can be very mean sometimes, but she’s just so cute when she’s mad.
Poor Hitler-chan. She just wanted everyone to like her…
This is horrible, horribly funny, that is.
My little fuhrer can’t be this cute!
“Stalin is clearly tops here”
Agreed
Shouldn’t this be Mussolini’s line or something?
This made me giggle.
Lol, okay, that got me cracked!!
Uhmmm if you want to be historically correct its
*glances shyly* uhm uhm do you want to take a shower with me..
(chibi hitler jackie chan kicks you into the shower) just shut up baka! teehee..
i’ll be right there i just have to get some stuff..
(closes the door) *click*
Kawaii Hitler is fail.
confirmed forever crying jew
>implying asian
>implying kid
derp
Confirmed for forever crying asian kid
Confirmed for Neonazist or Nazist what hate to see his leader as fapping material.
To all of you from the pearl of the east, http://i.imgur.com/8KtlG.jpg
Fuck your people power shit, I’m fapping to ZR marcos.
Holy shit! That’s Marcos? 0_o She’s adorable.
I never would have thought that I would say I’d bang Marcos….. I’d bang Marcos.
So is there a loli Ninoy Aquino to make some sweet loli lesbian love with Marcos?
That…is genius, good sir.
Fudge! She’s cute! Forget democracy! One-loli rule of Moe is the way to go!
TO ARMS!
I LOLED.
One of the best pic evar!
Controversial Jack’s nemesis is still at large?!
lol i’m related to marcos. and i think i’d go for incest.
why do i get the feeling sankaku and 4chan is flooded with flips?
Or white guys pretending to be flips?
I’d establish Marshall Law on her if you know what I mean.
I’d power her people if you know what I mean.
That innocent smile!!
Why did she have to be corrupted like that?!
To be honest, DBZ with Hitler being demolished was a thing of poetry, but this is something I would find TOO HARD to accept.
It wasn’t her fault. Imelda just made Marcos-chan buy everything. ;_;
…
I do wonder what the dictators would do/think if they see themselves like this?
…
Wonder what Japan is going turn the next thing into moe stuf. Diseases?
Look there thats AIDS chan and the black plaque sama! How cute!!!
*sarcasm*
*Wonder what Japan is going turn the next thing into moe stuf.* The 4 horsemen of the apocalypse (they will probably call them Death-sama, War-chan, Famine-san and Conquest-Nee).
I would die Happy in Death-sama’s embrace Question though ..
Would Death-sama be a shy tsundre loli type with princess outfit thinking shes a adult
or
The big breasted older sister type who is just a little too easy going around the house in the way she is dressed during the weekend mornings meaning just wearing a long lose shirt and panties and doesn’t feel shy Because your her brother
id rekon the second one. I feel like that would match her taste. the loli would be the Famine-san
>would watch
u mad bro?
I wonder what is thinking Hitler right now in Argentina
Fapping? To himself? …that was weird.
There is no such thing as ‘black plaque’, unless you’re referring to gingivitis. Learn to spell retardo, even google will help you check your spelling if you use it.
I was talking about the black death aka the plaque that killed lots of people in the middle ages.
Damn I combined the 2 things how awfull…
The world is going to end!!!
>considering typos & grammar the same thing
>implying meme, when older than the internets
please die already
There are No Typist Nazi’s …There are Grammar Nazi’s .. Know your memes sheesh
there you have a challenge japan:
make grammanazis moé!
typist nazis are the worst kind of nazi. please kill yourself.
I just wanted to point out here that “q” and “g” are different letters…
i’d watch that.
I’d do Castro.
…Did I actually just say that?
adolf you’re so hot !!!
I never imagined the same with saddam
or Omar al-Bashir and Mussolini.
Castro is definately bangable
Bush is too much fail to be a dictator, even compared to Mussolini. I’d do Kim Il-sung-tan btw.
I’ll tap stalin chan
I LoLed
Pol Pot all the way
Where’s the Bush one?
Saddam is also bangable.
anyone else wondered where’s Obama..?
I’m sure you meant George W. Bush, those two are easy to confuse.
but they do the same things…
Looks like some folks here at Sankaku don’t like how true your comment is.
“History is written by the victors”
Doesn’t say anything about being truthful…
Or everyone here isn’t American and we can barely give a shit.
Black people cannot be moe. DUH.
I smell a hit anime coming on, and it smells like GENOCIDE!
Eastside
Westside
Genocide
This just needs to be a hentai.
Not surprising, the bad-shit taste of moetards is well known by anyone, not counting moe itself is bad taste.
As expected of this breed. Moe and moetards came only to shame the great history of anime and manga.
All this moe crap is ok if you are young I suppose. Older anime fans know it is just following a marketing trend completely devoid of inspiration or originality.
Its not about bad taste.
You are just arrogant trash.
Defeat the fearful and the offended with playfulness and humor.
That is why you can never win with negativity.
Everything negative leads to something positive on a long enough timeline. Being able to laugh at a situation without laughing at misfortune is that which causes humanity to transcend its weaknesses and bring knowledge and light into ignorance and darkness.
Treating darkness with the respect (or lack thereof) that it deserves is what causes people to have the ability to move on.
I understand the premise your talking about. However darkness is not respected nor does it need it. It runs on fear and intimidation, appearance sake it looks formidable but it’s the weakest of all. It needs to be understood, warned about, and conquered until the end of time, in that great day.
Looks like some Japanese are still ashamed not wanting to know their past and other countries through moe, a big mistake. Here in the USA the stupid people actually believe our country isn’t like that.
……trying getting the fuck off your comp and actually putting 0.0000001% of what you preach IRL. Get back to us with results. Or stop writing pseudo intellectual sermons and GTFO.
@ Anon 3:10
As I said, with the respect it deserves, or lack thereof. As in none. You respect your enemy only so much as you need to defeat him really.
@ Anon 17:49
Which result would you like? That I love my life, my family, and have a meaningful relationship with all those close to me, or that I’m in a successful job making a good amount of money? People like yourself only judge on those things anyway. The only reason I said what I said is because I live that way, so… well there ya go.
Cool story, bro.
…I’m sure it will KILL in the ratings.
Dicta-lia~! An anime filled with moe dictatorships struggling for total dominance >.>
This puts the DIC in Dicatators.
As long as Moe Pol Pot is in it, I’ll watch
You bet!
How about an anime centered around Kawaii Hitler’s life in a school. She joins the art club once she “borrows” Poland-senpai’s brush. She then joins an art contest (World Art 2) and competes against the likes for Russia-chan and America-chan with the help of Mussolini-chan.
Or the story of Castro-chan trying to make a baseball team (Fidel Castro was almost signed by the Pirates or Yankees, iirc)
Genocide is kawaii, if you understand the Fate/Extra reference :3
Hitler as a Legendary Soul.
totally possible if he’s Caster
speaking of Caster, there are two dictators (El Salvador’s Martinez and Haiti’s Duvalier are depicted as witches
Girls und Revolución !
FUCK 2 YEAH!!!!
Oh hell yes.
damn yeah
Oh hell fuckin yes!!
WHAT!!! Caucasian for Cuban?!?!?!?! Where’s my Nadia’s Tan style?!
Yeah, and baseball? No cigars? No motherfucking guerrilla camo?
Also where is mah Napoleon? Of course must have A-cup angst instead of tallness complex.
(yeah, I know he wasn’t really short for his times)
You know, the real Cubans are white like the milk. seriously
This is true if you mean the Cubans that left the country. Most Cubans in Cuba today are mostly of mixed blood with extremely dark skin. If you want to see “traditional” Cubans then go to Miami.
Juan Peron.
o,o
Tampoco Chavez es un dictador y sin embargo… Oh well, we get Peron & Evita at the price of one, No complains over here…
LOL at Chavez not being a dictator, either you don’t live in the country or you are just communist trash, either way SHUT THE FUCK UP.
>Chavez not a dictator
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I don’t know why Juan (Domingo) Perón is considered a dictator in a lot of places outside Argentina. He wasn’t exactly a good guy, but he was far from being a dictator.
Videla is The Dictator when you think of one in Argentina.
I would totally buy this if i had any chance to get my hands on it. The topic is fairly interesting and it seems to be done with quite some thought, showing great humor. Let me note that i especially like Hitler-chan, ger-fag hier after all.
My dictator can’t be this cute!
also houtegeki…
Chairman Mao’s bloomers are showing! How embarrassing!
I would blitzkrieg over Hitler’s territory.
I would push through her southern resistance,assault her defenses, break her morale, and waltz right in for the occupation.
I’d liberate Hitler’s concentration camp.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I actually LOL’d irl.
For once, I want japan to make an anime about Zainichi koreans and korean forced laborers during ww2, and their plights about losing their homeland for real and forced to be part of japanese imperialism.
As in, the currently airing Bokoku no Akito Code Geass OVA should instead make ‘akito’ actually zainichi korean, ‘elevens’ actually ‘chosenjin’, Leila in to black haired yamato nadeshiko that knows taekwondo and is destined to fall into love with the actually oppressed lone boy solider known as ‘akito’ while fighting to save korea from brutal japanese occupation, all the while remembering how her family escaped from japan because they disagreed with shift into militarism and discrimination against their asian neighbors.
Instead, we have Code Geass fantasy land where japs can masturbate to their laughable idea of victimhood and try desperately to convince themselves that they are always the innocent, poor children being bullied by the evil world power that is not-so-subtly the west and USA.
Bitch please.
Of course, something as truthful and honest as that is never something japanese will have the guts to do.
Since when the fuck do tyrants deserve sympathy? Let them be turned into moe girls! They don’t deserve stuff like “sensitivity”.
But turning them into moe girls gives them more sensitivity…. in certain areas.
Moefying is the first step toward tentacle raep >.>
I’m impressed, Sankaku posted a bunch of news about a lot of different things today, rather than another AKB48 or SAO flood.
This was also a dumb idea on the publishers part but worse things have been published elsewhere. I’m sure the illustrators could have made the works more relevant while still being cute, though.
So, uh, basically Daiteikoku?
Retia > this Adolf
Well Daiteikoku is basically just a re-imagining of World War 2, they don’t even have the exact same name and I can laugh out loud to that.
But this uses the same name, and to makes things worse, I cannot “unimagine” the visions I see off the real pictures with those skimpy moe clothes..
I imagine Hirohiko Araki drawing the historical version in those skirts.
lol pinochet.
013 Tewi is that you?
Japan needs to know that you can’t “moefy” everything and anything, the line has been crossed here.
These are dictators responsible of many innocent deaths and abuse we’re talking about not cute and sympathic characters.
Whats next? A comedy manga about jew extermination prison camp?
WHAT THE FUCK, you missed canada. every time we get a majority government, its basically a dictatorship. like come on man.
GRORIOUS READER HARPER
GRORIOUS READER HARPER
Things HAPPEN in Canada?!
Sincerely, the rest of the world.
Yeah, this is pretty offenssive, but I’m suprised by the responsible amount of critisicm it’s getting. I guess there is a line to be crossed even in otaku culture.
No there isn’t. If anything, we haven’t crossed enough.
I thought the Japanese were cool about this sort of thing. Guess not.
Also like how the black dictators’ moe versions are white. There is no possible moe in orcs.
Menghistu and Kenyatta do look black to me.
The irony is that Tojo doesn’t seem asian…
Obviously, you’ve never seen the cover on the Dragonlance novel The Urda. Hot Ogre chick with green skin, fangs, big boobs & hourglass figure in a clingy dress. You can moeify anything if you’re perverted enough.
By orcs I’m pretty sure he meant black people.
Heh, none of what you’ve described sounds Moe at all. Then again, I’m guessing that’s your personal preference?
No Hugo Chavez T.T
He’s in there. check the gallery link.
where’s chavez?
Where’s Fujimori?
There is one with her in front of the cameras. use google
Where`s G.W. Bush?
Even Mussolini failed less than him.