The Gun Counter

The first episode of Cat Shit One is finally out, you can catch it free for the next two weeks here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMlmEFIx ... r_embedded#

You've doubtless seen bits of it, rabbit good guys vs camel "camel jockey" bad guys in the sandbox. Japanese animation, pretty good stuff, lots of gun play.

That was awesome. I hope there's more of that on the way, I'll buy it.

My first thought when I read the title was "they've been in my barn... "

I'm a fan. Better than most of the shit on television.

OK, no one tell CAIR that their ideaological brethern are portrayed as camels. We don't want them saying the Japanese are a bunch of RAYYYYYYCCCIIISSSTTT!SSSSSS!!!!1! and tanking this off TV.

If you didn't know already it's a continuation of a paper comic book series called 'Apocalypse Meow' ( really ! ) - Packy and Botasky actually started their careers working as Spike Team members for MACV\SOG in Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam war.

Setting Cat Shit One in the present and making them PMCs ruins the pun that's the whole reason Americans are rabbits: "Usagi" is Japanese for "rabbit."

Don't get it?

[spoiler]USA GI[/spoiler]

CByrneIV wrote:

Highspeed wrote:If you didn't know already it's a continuation of a paper comic book series called 'Apocalypse Meow' ( really ! ) - Packy and Botasky actually started their careers working as Spike Team members for MACV\SOG in Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam war.

Yeah, and it's very cool, but not quite right. The major problem is that Kobayashi doesn't really know and understand soldiers; and he especially doesn't understand American idiom.

Basically this is the problem with any Japanese representation of American culture. They impress Japanese social and cultural norms ont o the American characters; which just doesn't work.

They don't seem to "get" America in general.

Hell, we don't get them either - Japan is by all appearances(at least to Westerners in general, and Americans in particular) the epicenter of exporting wierdness.

It appears that Packy favors an MGI modular AR-15 with a 7.62x39 magwell, and Botasky has a Springfield SOCOM with a Smith Enterprises Vortex flash suppressor in a SAGE aluminum chassis. I didn't get a real close look at the pistols, but they seem to be a type of 1911.

Regarding the kukri going through the scope... I think it's a cultural thing regarding a blade that cleaves through pretty much anything. Remember the stories of Japanese officers misinformed and gullible enough to think their mass-produced katanas would cut through barrels of tank guns and would have a few requisitions for new swords because of mistakes? It's similar to that. So, much like their other cultural miscues, this is probably something to play to the intended audience.