"but even if the two of us should be separated / I will change the world"

[larryhammer]

To those intellectually interested in the world of manga scanlation but who have not explored it because you have issues with copyright violations, I give a scanlation that violates no copyright -- because it's published by the US government.* Specifically, by the Department of Defence, who on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima released in Japanese the first chapter (of a projected three) of Our Alliance: A Lasting Partnership. In which an American boy named Usa-kun ("Bunny," but also the acronym) on a home-stay in the house of a Japanese girl named Anzu, where they seem to spend most of their time talking about, well, the military alliance between their countries. Like all good moe anthropomorphisms of nation-states do.

In other words, it's a pure propaganda infodump barely sullied by anything resembling a plot.

I'll give 50 quatloos, redeemable for an entire internet, to anyone who manages to read all the way through without skipping even a single infographic.

(Just as a reminder, the text reads in Japanese manner from right to left -- so start in the upper right corner, go across, and then down.)

* ETA: I should clarify that the USA subscribes to the legal theory that works created on the public dollar are in the public domain -- not all national governments do so.

---L.

Comments

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I am not the person who should be taking up your bet. I am about to link this post to gramarye1971, who is that person.