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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Hahaha, yeah, that whole section kind of made me go “wtf? whaling?!”. Yamaoka is all about the true Japanese way of life, I guess!
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.
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
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.
Frank, I can see it now… Oishinbo A la Carte: Intelligent Sea-Bourne Mammals.