{"id":9438,"date":"2010-08-04T01:47:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=9438"},"modified":"2010-08-04T01:47:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:47:35","slug":"english-study-comic-paid-homage-to-u-s-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/english-study-comic-paid-homage-to-u-s-marines\/","title":{"rendered":"English Study Comics Paid Homage To U.S. Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“Pixel Mari-tan”<\/a> is a Japanese Manga comic for studying English slang used in U.S. Marines, which are never taught at school. (-tan is a colloquial form of -san<\/a>)
\n\"Mari-tan<\/a>
\n“The magical kingdom princess, 12-year old Marine(Mar-Lee-Nay, Japanese girl’s name) transforms to marine! She, a magical democratic princess, protects democracy and fights for freedom cause.<\/a> [J]” with her friends A-mi-(Army)-san, Neibi(Navy)-san, Jiei-tan(comes from Jieitai, Japan Self-Defense Force).
\nThe series, earning a cult following, has been producing series of textbooks, figures, felt badges, T-shirts, novel, cellphone site and standby images.<\/a> [J]
\nThe latest “Mari-tan’s English drill book F*ck Edition” is specialized for the word “F*ck” only. Comic and audio drama are combined to learn orthodox Marine English like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, one of the popular internet meme in 2-channel and Nico Nico Douga. (YouTube search “Sergeant Hartman” in *Japanese*<\/a> returns a lot of parody movies. Some<\/a> crazy<\/a> ones<\/a>.)
\n\"Mari-tan<\/a>
\nYou can listen audio sample here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Official manga by U.S. Army for Japanese<\/a> (via WSJ Japan<\/a>) are being released, too. It is drawn by the same cartoonist<\/a> [J] as the f*ck drill book.
\nSemper Fi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Pixel Mari-tan” is a Japanese Manga comic for studying English slang used in U.S. Marines, which are never taught at school. (-tan is a colloquial form of -san) “The magical kingdom princess, 12-year old Marine(Mar-Lee-Nay, Japanese girl’s name) transforms to marine! She, a magical democratic princess, protects democracy and fights for freedom cause. [J]” with… Continue reading English Study Comics Paid Homage To U.S. Marines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,36],"tags":[1075,1122,2200,3918],"class_list":["post-9438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-trend","tag-english","tag-fck","tag-manga","tag-us-marines","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}