Comments on: Girls und Panzer + WoT campaign in Japan

By: Z.G.

Z.G. — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:27:02 +0000

(emmm my last comment didin’t published, screw you internet!)
For LK (“Russian tanks are the best? bitch pls….”) too:
Actually Sumire Uesaka is a huge fan of CCCP (USSR) /Russia. She speak Russian and she’s at Sophia University (a very famous University for foreign language in Japan).
She’s quite famous for her cosplay of CCCP/Russia things like (http://image.club.china.com/twhb/12171906/2012/6/5/pictuku/1338847125659_340.jpg).
And of course she’s fan of tank, I remembered correctly her favourite is the BT-5.

By: Z.G.

Z.G. — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:14:01 +0000

Thanks for publishing this SS! And for typo correction :x

Also if you want more pictures about the cafe (I know you want that :D):
http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20130913_615415.html

By: Z.G.

Z.G. — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:12:26 +0000

It’s not the only cosplay restaurant theme in Japan.
You also have: butler cafe, imotou cafe (little sisters), miko cafe (shrine girl) etc. Well, a very lot of choice.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:06:38 +0000

Usually they’d also be rather hard pressed to actually *define* it beyond whatever specific narrow issue they’re using it as a rhetorical blunt instrument for. And you can pretty much forget about them grasping the concept of “negative freedoms”, ie. freedom *from* something.

By: ingerad

ingerad — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:03:18 +0000

Whelp, I gots me another looney to hunt down and put back in it’s cage. Sorry folks for the interuption.

P.S. I say this as an American, I find most often that the folks that shout out about freedom usually just mean the “freedom” to do what that group thinks is “right”. >.>

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 05:22:50 +0000

From what I’ve read they’ve expanded the basic concept considerable. To quote a scanlator, “because Japan.”

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 05:20:09 +0000

Neither were the Vietnamese.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 05:19:08 +0000

Team WHAT?

By: Black Ice

Black Ice — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 04:01:51 +0000

I think you are missing the point.
It doesn’t matter if the text shows as boxes, or if we install the language pack to allow us to see it shown correctly. We still are unable to read or understand the language.
The issue is we have no way to communcate with each other, so team work suffers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:50:16 +0000

That Ha-Go is the one of the 3 prop tanks made for the filming of HBO’s “The Pacific”. Some Japanese NGO bought it from a collector from Australia. They overhauled the engine, gave it a more historically correct paint job, replaced the wheels and modded the final drive sprockets.