My thoughts…on stuff

I’ve always admired the Japanese, first for their anime, which, for the most part, remains surprisingly original. Secondly for their originality and weirdness, which I can totally relate with. But this, this is just too much. Japan is making a robot cat named Doraemon their anime ambassador. (Hmm. I’ve seen Doraemon ever since I was a kid but I never knew his name.)

This has to be the most useless government post since, well, any other government post, so I guess it fits. I don’t think anime and manga need much promotion, as they’ve become pretty damn popular, especially due to DBZ, the Gundam saga and other wildly popular animes. And even if the Japanese need to promote anime, they don’t need to create a government post for it.

Then again, the Japanese are a jovial people. Hard to believe these guys invented seppuku and were the bad guys in World War II. And apparently this was done already, as Astro Boy was named ambassador for international safety last November. Funny. I would’ve picked a Gundam. Sure Astro Boy’s legendary, but no one would want to mess with a giant robot with a giant phallic cannon. Using pop culture in diplomacy. What a novel idea. What if America did the same? Thank God they can’t be hated much more than they already are.

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