Sunday, April 26, 2009

Apparently, all Americans think that you can see Mt. Fuji from anywhere in Japan...

I really need to start reading more shonen manga; when I first started poking around the manga world online, I dabbled in shonen (you know, the basics--Full Metal Alchemist, Bleach, ect.)--but then I found shoujo, and haven't left it since. Anyways, I was making one of my very rare forays into the world of boy's manga (though plenty of girls read it too), and came across this assumption about Americans:

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/doushirou_de_gozaru/v01/c001/17.html

Now this is definitely not the wierdest idea about Americans that I've come across in manga (I will never, ever forget the day I saw the line "Didn't you know? Everyone in America's done it by the time they're 10!"--apparantly, I'm quite the slacker...), but it did make me laugh. The manga, on its own, is pretty cool; it's about a Japanese boy raised in the middle of Nevada (where, apparently, the bison have somehow managed to still run free) as a samurai from the Edo period. Now he's come back to modern-day Japan to live with his mom and younger brother and...well...he's got issues. But they're funny issues, so it's all good. ^_^

Pax
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