7 Comments on “YAMAOKA”

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1. ben spigel says:

   I was reading that last night, and I was all like, “wow, this comic took a really strong right-handed turn all of a sudden”. He’s pro-whaling and anti-free trade.

   December 1st, 2009 at 9:05 am

2. Jay says:

   Whoa! Haven’t finished reading that volume yet… didn’t see this. I’m sure in the next panel he blames the insidious “West” for destroying the entire Japanese way of life with their silly whaling policy.

   December 1st, 2009 at 12:03 pm

3. Elin Winkler says:

   Hahaha, yeah, that whole section kind of made me go “wtf? whaling?!”. Yamaoka is all about the true Japanese way of life, I guess!

   December 1st, 2009 at 12:26 pm

4. Chris says:

   That’s “Fourth Course, Page Four” by the by, so I promise I’m not spoiling anything with it. The conversation refers to a story that won’t be reprinted in the U.S.

   December 1st, 2009 at 4:51 pm

5. Ryan says:

   So awesome and insane. I strongly recommend folks read the nationalist right-wing manga that Schultz of Tokyo Damage report wrote annotated translations for. It’s fascinating!

   http://blog.electricantzine.com/right-wing-nationalist-manga

   December 1st, 2009 at 6:19 pm

6. Frank says:

   I know it’ll never happen, but I’d love for Viz to translate the pro-whaling story. Maybe in a volume dedicated to controversial topics, or something. Oishinbo is strange because it spends so much time arguing against pesticides and promoting things like natural, organic farming, then it goes and openly defends whaling. I guess it just shows how Western politics don’t map well onto foreign cultures.

   December 1st, 2009 at 10:44 pm

7. Greg McElhatton says:

   Frank, I can see it now… Oishinbo A la Carte: Intelligent Sea-Bourne Mammals.

   December 2nd, 2009 at 9:46 am