Anime forging world peace

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Japanese newspaper the Daily Yomiuri have posted a brief but interesting articleabout how Japanese animation is spreading over the globe; the medium now accounting for nearly 60% of the world's animation.

Specifically the article spotlights how the football anime "Captain Majed" (aka "Captain Tsubasa") was recently exported to Iraq and has clearly become a big sucess. To the delight of the local children, when Japanese water supply trucks visited Iraq, large Captain Majed stickers were stuck on the vechicles; the iconic images effortlessly trancending local language barriers and strongly conveying a benevolent message of peace. (Source: Otaku News)
 
Rukario said:
I wonder if they're aware that it's from Japan. >_>
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That's the point of putting the stickers on the side of the trucks. I wonder if Iraqi otaku are complaining about Tsubasa being "cut to shreds" and renamed to Majed ;)
 
That's really cool :).

It sounds like a nice way of spinning something that was something of a political disaster in Japan (deploying troops outside of Japan into a warzone) into a positive story.
 
i used to watch Captain Majed (Tsubasa) when i was a kid when i used to live in Abu Dhabi (the capital of U.A.E) it was and still is one of my all time fav's! such an awsome series.

nice to see it spreading around.
 
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