Anime Lesson: How To Deal With Gaijin

haha. a similar thing happened in Young GTO! Shonan Junai Gumi. i wonder if Guile in the Street Fighter anime is the only gaijin to beat up japanese martial artists. (i swear i’m not an otaku)

Very good article, and some interesting comments! – I’ve put a few more clips up from this show, and more specifically, those that highlight the whole East/West culture clash. Including some more of this USA T-Shirt clad afro-ite.

It’s probably worth mentioning, this show was around in the late eighties or so, I believe. It’s also very obscure in the West, and was obviously never picked up for any means of translation. It also ended very suddenly, after thirty four episodes. So suddenly infact, that the last few epic fights are amazingly rushed, and presented in still pictures and such. I’ve heard rumour this was due to some sort of parental concern, as of course, this was a show for children, much in the vein of “Hokuto no Ken” and so forth, which also was ordered to tone down the violence for the second series.

It’s surprisingly bloody, and most battles usually end in some sort of bizarre double suicide. Comically, however hideously the protagonistic characters die, they always usually return later on, covered in a few simple bandages, despite having earlier claimed that they’d “died”, indefinitely.