Anime Lesson: How To Deal With Gaijin
May 21st, 2007 by James
Here’s a clip from the classic anime series Sakigake!! Otokojuku, in which the protagonist encounters an African American who had previously beat up a teacher from Otoko High School for “harassing” his girlfriend. It’s time for righteous revenge against this foreign brute, am I right?
A few noteworthy things from this video:
- The ridiculously gigantic size of the black guy, who is, of course, wearing a USA shirt.
- How the American is talking shit about Japanese and how stupid they are in “English.” (The other English lines are also hilariously horrible.)
- The closing line after the girl abandons her foreign boyfriend and tries to become the protagonist’s girl: “Yesterday gaijin, today Japanese men. Always changing your mind. I hate stupid girls like you.”
Ah, racial harmony….
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Chinpokomon?
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)
All Japanese dudes need to do to keep their women: stop treating them like shit.
Great find.
saying that is being as ignorant as this video
Reminds me of the one baseball episode of Samurai Champloo.
Well at least the japanese “heroes” look pretty fucked up as well…
The ‘hero’ is clearly gay. Note the black guy has an afro as well. And for some reason speaks English with a Japanese accent.
Note the term “otoko juku”. It could be translated as “Man cram school”.
So what you think is gay, is manly, hetero friendship.
Ossu!
Many of Japanese men aged about 35-50 years enjoyed the original comic of Sakigake Otokojyuku in 1980’s. Anachronistic tastes of the main characters were the major source of laughter in the original comic, as is in this anime. Several years ago, Taiwanese former president, Lee Teng-hui, cosplayed the Principal of Otokojyuku, Edajima Heihachi (photo). It made a sensation among Japanese. Also, the first voice of Toyama Koichi in his speech for Tokyo’s gubernatorial election, “I AM Toyama Koichi,” was probably a parody of Edajima Heihachi’s speech. Although no one has pointed it out, I am pretty sure many of middle-aged Japanese men noticed it when they first saw his speech.
Good finds!
Wow, amazing. I’m not surprised an older Japanese male audience would like the series, what, with all the morals and so forth that the heroic characters follow.
I’m to understand the catchphrase of Edajima Heihachi is, “I am the Principal of the Private Man School! EDAJIMA HEIHACHI!”
He usually says this in response to almost anything, and always bellows it out. Often, he will say it in such a context that he will entirely bewilder whoever is on the recieving end. It’s almost always used to a comical effect, but, I can understand why an older gentleman would admire such a force of identity!
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.
“Oh my God, they killed Heihachi!”
“Kon-chikusho!”
I wonder if the headmaster Edajima was named after Etajima, the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy near Hiroshima? Since Wiki says 軍神とまで謳われた海軍中将、江田島國義の一人息子として産まれる about him, I’ll bet there’s a connection.
Don’t get me wrong I like the anime myself and yes I am
Black(British to be excact),but at the same time it is
rationally stereotypical. Not all African americans like wearing afros or have very dark skin,not to mention the
rediculous size of the guy. But I am going to guess due to the number of U.S. military bases in Japan,the natives of that country assume that Americans that are in the armed forces are the more superior and well-
suited of all Americans. Sakigake Otokojuku seems to
present a small portion of nationalism.