'Captain Tsubasa' to air on national TV in Iraq

[Elendil]

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national...05TDY02003.htm

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Twenty-six Ground Self-Defense Force water tankers in Samawah, southern Iraq, have been decorated with giant decals of Tsubasa to advise Iraqi children of Japan's latest reconstruction project.

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I think that this is just so totally cool. Showing the children of Iraq a new form of entertainment and hopefully, if only a little, promoting a positive relationship between Iraq and Japan. Clearly, anime is the next step to world peace. [img]/images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif[/img]

Nikki

[EmperorBrandon]

Cool. Good that the JSDF is helping to spread anime. [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img]

[quenelf]

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I think that this is just so totally cool. Showing the children of Iraq a new form of entertainment and hopefully, if only a little, promoting a positive relationship between Iraq and Japan. Clearly, anime is the next step to world peace. [img]/images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif[/img]


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Yes, it's great. It's also... I dunno, I can certainly imagine that the US would provide children's TV programming (they probably do) but would they paint their vehicles with its logos? Not sure [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img]

Doubt it'll do much to appease the opposition forces or extremists, though. If it achieves any publicity at all within the country it could even become a target, so we can look forward to scenes of Tsubasa-adorned fragments of smoking wreckage before too long. [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img] Maybe I'm cynical...

--quen

[Legion]

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quen said:
Maybe I'm cynical...

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Ohhhhhhhh, just a bit. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[something]

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quen said:
Maybe I'm cynical...

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Perish the thought!