Kim Jong-Il Manga

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-09-19 03:31pm

linky

This sounds like something I'd like to read, actually...

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-09-19 03:34pm

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-09-19 03:39pm

Japan proves once again that as a country, you cannot beat Japan in weirdness factor.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-09-19 04:15pm

It's like a biography in an unorthodox form. I don't think it's all that strange; it doesn't have that gian Kim-Il robot from that old Onin article, right?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-09-19 05:47pm

Shinova wrote:Japan proves once again that as a country, you cannot beat Japan in weirdness factor.

It's a Japanese translation of a South Korean manga, Shin, which portrays the adult Kim as a murderous despot.

Did you even read the entire thing?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-09-19 07:13pm

That is certainly, different. I wish there was a better picture of the inside.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-09-19 08:02pm

Is there an English translation yet?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-09-19 08:26pm

Well, it was originally published in South Korea in 1999 (it has since been banned), and the Japanese translation went on sale on 4 August.

It'd be a miracle if there was already an English version...

Admiral Johnason · Post by **Admiral Johnason** » 2003-09-19 08:37pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Well, it was originally published in South Korea in 1999 (it has since been banned), and the Japanese translation went on sale on 4 August.

It'd be a miracle if there was already an English version...

Why was it banned? I thought that they would want anti-NK setiment in their country.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-09-19 08:39pm

Read The Fucking Article.

Admiral Johnason · Post by **Admiral Johnason** » 2003-09-19 08:48pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Read The Fucking Article.

The link wasn't working on my computer when I clicked. My computer can be termpermental at some times.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-09-20 12:39am

Some democracy. Ban publications going against the resident politician's foriegn policy.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-09-20 02:45am

"Young Japanese know next to nothing about Kim Jong-Il's personality," said Lee Young-Hwa, a third-generation Japanese Korean and professor of economics specialising in North Korea at Kansai University in Osaka, who insisted that "all incidents portrayed in the manga are true."

He said the Japanese media is to blame with its fixation on "missile issues, kidnappings and the 'yorokobigumi'," -- the beautiful cheerleaders who accompany North Korean sports teams on their trips abroad -- as well as Kim's alleged sexual depravity.

Sorry, I just couldn't help focusing on this.

SWPIGWANG · Post by **SWPIGWANG** » 2003-09-22 09:17pm

this is weird why?

It isn't kim jong-ii hentai, and that would be weird. (yes, it exists)

Grand Moff Yenchin · Post by **Grand Moff Yenchin** » 2003-09-23 12:14am

If it's imported in TW(80% likely) I'll go take a look.

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2003-09-23 05:19am

Illuminatus Primus wrote:Some democracy. Ban publications going against the resident politician's foriegn policy.

The South Korean president was trying to lower the tension between the two countries. When your neighbour happens to be North Korea, which occasionally attacks your soldiers and patrol vessels, it's not very beneficial to have a popular comic that depicts the NK leader as "bloodthirsty despot, etc." (which Kim Jong II no doubt is).

That said, I'd like to read Kim Jong-Il manga.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-09-23 07:43am

Oberleutnant wrote:
Illuminatus Primus wrote:Some democracy. Ban publications going against the resident politician's foriegn policy.
The South Korean president was trying to lower the tension between the two countries. When your neighbour happens to be North Korea, which occasionally attacks your soldiers and patrol vessels, it's not very beneficial to have a popular comic that depicts the NK leader as "bloodthirsty despot, etc." (which Kim Jong II no doubt is).

so how is your rationalization of censorship in this case different from Americans banning socialist literature in the 1950's? Sorry, but i don't buy this 'ends justify the means" horeshit. A free society must never ban political literature, even literature that seems so trivial.

j1j2j3 · Post by **j1j2j3** » 2003-09-23 11:36pm

We get those kinds of bans all the time and they are knowingly never enforced. It's just a 'formal' ban to keep him from lobbing nukes down our throats.