Someone brought this to my attention this week:
An animated Japanese series about private military contractors, or mercenaries as they were once known, taking shit out in the fringe states of the former Soviet Union. How about that?
Some of these scenes are more graphic than what I can recall seeing in a live action movie, and I can’t help but cringe at the racist, or at the very least unflattering, implications of the choice of animals being used to depict the citizens of different countries. I’m probably way off base here- Japanese people aren’t ever known to be racist are they? Cute bunnies knocking odious Mohammedan camels down in close combat and shooting them in the face? Too adorable to be violence! Conveniently separating citizens of different nations into easy-to-define and hard-to-deny categories of absolute difference from one another? Too visibly true to be racism!
I’d love to see this whole series to see if there is any commentary being made as part of the story that goes against the immediate impressions I get from the trailer. Standing on its own, though, and with my Japanese reading skills at an all-time nadir, the trailer is pretty damning.
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