Possibly NSFW picture at the end of this link.
I say “possibly NSFW” because the nudity is largely implied and the picture doesn’t make any sense anyway. It appears to show a firearm disguised as a female being carried and used by a Japanese soldier. A magazine is seen protruding from between her legs and her ass is seen protruding from a hatch on a submarine. The image is possibly a fake, but the text says something and I’m curious to know what.
The text is a bit small to read. I can make out some of the characters, but not enough to translate.
It appears to be spoofing that the woman is a weapon, able to shoot bullets or “toxic gas” from her rear end.
Out of context, I couldn’t tell you exactly what all motive there might be behind the picture, though I’d presume it’s anti-war.
My reading ability sucks, but if nobody else comes along soon, I’ll forward it to some Japanese friends of mine. Somebody should be able to help here though, maybe TokyoPlayer or Sleel.
Yeah, I was afraid there wouldn’t be enough text to meaningfully read. It looks damn strange out of context.
The title says: War
The captions, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom:
Rissha (An archery term for shooting from a standing position.)
Shissha (Crouching shooting position.)
Illegible.
Anti-aerial attack shooting
Fukusha (Lying shooting position – again archery term.)
Submarine
Main battery (From context, the characters also look a lot like “blank shot”.)
The smaller text is a lot harder to make out. Under the illigible caption, I read:
Set the magazine inside the rectum and shoot out from the anus.
I can’t make the first few characters of the second paragraph. It goes: “**** and **** are directly tied to each other.”
Under “submarine” there is:
“Navigating beneath the surface, against ****'s ***** military force, attacks with **** missiles. Uses the gases emanating from the corpses to dive and surface.”
The text in the drawing says: “surface!”
For some reason, I felt compelled to look at this picture again and squint a bit harder…
The whole text actually goes:
“Set the magazine inside the vagina and shoot out from the anus. The vagina and rectum are directly tied to each other.”
Is actually:
“Navigating beneath the surface, uses torpedoes and missiles against the enemy’s *** military force.”
jovan: Thank you very much. It makes perfect sense now: The people who made the image are nuts.
Derleth, you can’t just put that out there without explaining where the hell you found it. Japanese submariners using female corpses (with severely messed up anatomy) as weapons? :eek: This is not something you’d find on the rack at the local 7-11.
It sounds like what we have here is a cultural difference. Anti-war posters aren’t the same in every country.
I guess so. Their idea, though, catches my attention a lot better than this.
I found it via Reddit, and I have no knowledge of where it comes from beyond that.
From Digg: SENSE: This picture makes none (As I recall, this image was part of an anti-pollution campaign. Because environmentalism is inextricably linked with Darth Vader.)
Gah! I’d forgotten that poster! It always made me want to go out and kill as many living things as I could.
It’s discussed in this Japanese blog; the comments say it’s by cartoonist Shintaro Kago.
Just my feeling as a Japanese native, but I don’t think it’s anti-war art. Just something for shock value. I don’t really understand it but this type of nonsensical grotesque cartoons is not uncommon, and most of the time without any political themes.
Or some posters I recall, but can’t find anywhere now, were put out by Horseshit Magazine in the 60’s. One was a US soldier fiercely holding a bayonet. On the end of the bayonet was a skewered baby. The caption read, “Buy War Bonds. Burn a Baby.”
Or another from the same source, was a Marine in uniform but with his pants near his ankles. His, uh, equipment was very tiny. The caption said, “Join the Marines and be a man.”
So its not the packaging from some food item?
I don’t know. I was a bit curious so I read a bit about Kago and it does seem that there is a strong element of social criticism to his often scatological work. (If not social criticism at the very least a strong misanthropic strain.) The book this illustration appears to be taken from is called Kagayake! Dai-To-A Kyoeiken (“Shine On! Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.”) The title is a very obvious reference to WWII and the “story” involves the Japanese imperial army performing research into body modifications and mass producing giant weapon-women.
I was going to say that it looks likes even the Japanese have trouble with poorly translated instructions accompanying imported household appliances.
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