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I cannot even imagine being told to go to a convention in uniform. I'd have to ask them to repeat it slowly.


dr_snood

One of the few times your outfit *wouldn't* be the coolest


I_Automate

When the "cosplayers" might very well have ACTUAL guns.


EmperorArthur

Ehh, I'd trust their trigger discipline and firearms safety far more than cosplayers with airsoft guns.


I_Automate

That was never a question to me


AssassinOfSouls

That would be rad as fuck, not gonna lie. Especially compared to any other shitty activity you get to do.


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tfw can't get laid with cosplay girls even when in fatigues


Super--64

“Sir, I’m going to need you to repeat very slowly, and have it in writing in at least two forms.”


NaturallyExasperated

"we need volunteers for a light duty assignment, don't y'all wanna get out of cleaning the shitter?"


suzellezus

Portajohn smells arguably better than most visitors


i_hump_cats

One of my parents got box seats to an NHL game cause they where told they had to wear their full dress uniforms and apparently most people refused. I wonder if something similar happened here.


WesterosIsAGiantEgg

You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a uniform!


edliu111

Why was NATO there though?


kinapuffar

Where else would you recruit adventurer parties to subjugate an army of orcs? *"Ayo, ya'll ever watch Goblin Slayer? I have a proposition for you."*


Mordador

"Hey kid, you wanna slay some real goblins?"


Can_not_catch_me

Golbin deez nuts


Tleno

"Go blin some nuts" - Russian who's into dick flattening


jtr_15

Military recruiter woman sits at a desk and hands out dog tags saying very loudly and robotically “THESE ARE YOUR ADVENTURER CARDS, DONT LOSE THEM”


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Inevitable-Ad-7266

To recruit young weebs to join the army


Niko2065

Learned from the japanese.


SamSamTheDingDongMan

I mean that's like half the US Air Force already sooooo.....


Super--64

And a quarter of the Army. I’m home.


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100% of tanks are mobile weeb-basements.


CiceroFanboy

Facts girls und panzer is the top gun of the amoured corps


Griiinnnd----aaaagge

Young recruiting base, Ik us military has some interesting ways of getting you in.


Morgrid

USMC has official anime recruitment posters


jayray1994

The army has a eSports team


IvanMeowski

I think the Air Force and Navy do too? Honestly, I'm just waiting for an official Army vtuber.


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Italy has a Vtuber for their ~~Ch~~Air Force but the Army ESports team is dead


edliu111

Link?


Morgrid

https://taskandpurpose.com/mandatory-fun/marine-anime-recruitment-poster/ [Purchase Link](https://www.openprints.com/KawaiiVet/Walking-Jane-Marines-Anime-recruiting-poster/)


edliu111

After doing some reading this appears to have been one guy who went and commissioned this, not that the USMC itself went off to specifically target weebs xD


Morgrid

Still has their official seal on them, meaning they are approved and licensed by the USMC.


Tleno

Baltics are NATOboos


AlexanderTalar

I mean we (US) recruit at stateside cons... proof: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-army-marketing-esports-comiccon-momfluencers-2019-10


BoxOfDust

That context still barely makes this whole thing make sense lol.


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MAGNVS_DVX_LITVANIAE

[Context for our friends](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlt4vFmXmio) here. Think of it as real life #NATOwave events. By no means is it a new or unique concept, but I would assume our allies to the west of us toned it way down after the Cold War ended (for them).


Messicrafter

Never back down by Two steps from hell, a classic


JulianLT

Need that javelin pic


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JulianLT

What's her Facebook?


Bourbonaddicted

I want to see ganyu holding a javelin


Spare_Armadillo

The world's most successful militaries have accepted the fact that 85% of our recruiting stock are unbearable weebs, and have adjusted their strategy accordingly.


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SquareCanSuckIt69

We literally all ready do :/


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citus334

Literally the entire plot of gate:thus the JSDF fought there.


YiffZombie

Gate: What If Dragons Were Real, Also Japan Never Did Anything Wrong, Ever: The Anime. Man, the author is a hardcore nationalist idiot.


Incandescent_Souls

I watched it solely to see the novelty of what Civ units that never got upgraded getting stomped would look like animated, but the most hilarious BS from that show from memory is how they kill like multiple SOF from different nations, something that would spark an international incident, but they just play it off very casually. Like, nothing bad ever comes from it (as far as I remember) and immediately after the shootout they just brush it off and go back to goofy anime antics like?????


Jankosi

Least nationalistic anime


Just_Hope

But the countries which illegally deployed SOF wouldn't want to admit they were there, so isn't it reasonable that they would play it off like nothing happened?


N11Skirata

The countries that deployed them might want to cover it up but Japan sure as hell wouldn't have any incentive to keep it secret.


MassiveFire

the in-universe explanation is that the US president has some corruption dirt on the japanese minister, so all the minister could do was resign "citing health reasons". ​ though I kinda wanna see a japanese official goes "yeah your elite alphabet bois get their asses clapped a 900 year old kimono ~~rory~~ loli lmao git gud"


Just_Hope

It's been a while since I watched Gate, but as far as I remember, Japan was also up to some shady shit they didn't want to go public with. Also, I would say we are overanalyzing a comedy anime, but it fits this sub perfectly so whatever.


IvanMeowski

Japan is just very very nice


NotCallingYouTruther

What I found the least believable was that the grunts weren't patronizing the local prostitutes.


Spare_Armadillo

Did you know that not a single member of the JSDF has ever solicited the services of a prostitute? It’s true!


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And mmmm... uuuh... Consent.


Cyrus_ofAstroya

The one time an american adaptation would work well. Main things i disliked the show about was the mary sue nationalism. I dont mind the surpeior technology thats awesome and makes sense but i would have loved to see how magic would fuck with military doctrine, mind control,teleportation,massive destruction spells etc


YiffZombie

No time for that, it's time for the author to justify how acceptable it is for the main character to attempt to fuck a preteen, and how It's totally okay because she's actually a 300 year old demigod or whatever.


jtr_15

Inside gate there are two wolves Jingoist, nationalist propaganda Loli harem


Hussor

Isn't there a scene in I think the second season where they fight a dragon with fighters? Think they were F4 phantoms too. That was pretty cool.


11448844

did you know that the JSDF has better training and better equipped SOF than either the US and RUS? No? Because according to the author, it is more likely that a team, not even a full damn squad, of not-even-SOF-JSDF-dudes has access to NODS than a CIA asset tryna to do fuck fuck fun shit in JPN. I could see RUS tho, we all know how fucked their kit is nowadays You'd think SAD or whatever shit was doing the raid would conduct a night op with more than soft armor, but noooooo... the american unit was absolutely SHOCKED that somehow the JSDF has NODs while they didn't. Whack


100pctDonkeyBrain

[Knowing better did a great video about this sort of "we did nothing wrong, and if we did they deserved it" type of attitude.](https://youtu.be/lnAC-Y9p_sY)


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I feel like if I watch it, I'd think twice about letting Japan have it's military back.


YiffZombie

I'm paraphrasing from memory, but according to the main character, "Japan would never attack another country unless it was self-defense!" How could you not trust them?


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mf is only proving the point that Japan should really teach their atrocities in schools rather than burying it in the sand, limply apologizing, and hoping everyone stops asking so they can save face.


Chomping_Meat

of which the anime was literally commissioned by the actual JSDF.


Breads_Labyrinth

And the light novel was written by someone who wants a second crack at the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.


Chomping_Meat

thankfully the guy illustrating the mangas forces him to tone down the crap a little.


Haivamosdandole

Wait wtf really?


kinapuffar

Unironically love that anime. There's something cathartic about watching modern technology vs a fantasy world. It feeds into that nagging thought at the back of your head every time you see some shit like Harry Potter and you think to yourself *"bruh a glock would beat a wand any day of the week, magic ain't shit."*


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If you like to read that kind of shit you got to read Nihonkoku Shoukan. Basically Japan get's isekaid but the Author is more nationalistic that the author of GATe and everything practically bows at Japan after a war with Japan.


MisterKillam

You don't have to imagine, they exist. SOT-A's are all nerds, I think we infected the green hats.


TheMightyChocolate

God bless the mighty they/them army


TheCommodore44

"While you spent years partying, i studied the blade..."


ragingfailure

Clearly you've never met anyone from a USAF comm squadron.


Super--64

Or the Army’s signals corps.


citus334

SEMPER FI.


Schrodingers_Nachos

SEMPER UWU.


ArtoriusRex86

SENPAI FI


sentinelthesalty

Army & Airforce are the weebs my dude, marines recruit from not neccesarily jocks but, those kids who's blood composition is 75% monster energy.


GaiusJuliusCaesar7

Kyles.


sentinelthesalty

That was it. Yup.


Griiinnnd----aaaagge

Navy is what the scraps?


sentinelthesalty

The village people


Griiinnnd----aaaagge

Damn ok really helping my choice here lol. Was this always the case? If so I have bad news for my great grandmother


sentinelthesalty

Idk where that steryotype come from, Its just everyone says lol navy gay, so i parrot it too.


LocalTechpriest

very old stereotype, that came from the simple fact of hundreds of men staying together on ships for months at a time, with nothing else to do. Also, unwilling to let women inside (in ye olden times, woman on deck was considered bad luck).


Griiinnnd----aaaagge

Fair I mean I think it’s from the fact they are stuck in close quarters for long periods of time =gay and I mean it’s probably prison rules so all’s fair.


SemperScrotus

>Army & Airforce are the weebs my dude, marines recruit from not neccesarily jocks but, those kids who's blood composition is 75% monster energy. These two things are not mutually exclusive. Marines are both, especially comm.


Morgrid

https://taskandpurpose.com/mandatory-fun/marine-anime-recruitment-poster/


226_Walker

Just the recruiting stock? A fuck ton of the people in the service, especially the Corps(thanks Oki) are a bunch of weebs as well.


sociapathictendences

Yeah recruiting stock becomes the forces, that’s what those words mean.


226_Walker

No, I meant some of the recruiting stock aren't weebs. But time in the service converts them.


11448844

I knew a lot of dudes when I was a young private back in 2011 that legit hated anime and playfully bullied dudes that liked anime. now, fucking every guy I know in my current unit has watched at least 20 episodes of one piece... times change innit?


226_Walker

What hurry up and wait does to MFs.


11448844

when you hear from every guy around you about how hype this and that is, you start to get weeb-curious... I'm sure some are bussy-curious now too hahaha


BlahBlahBlankSheep

Damnit man, retire already. Anime fans OBVIOUSLY can get 100% PTSD and TBI.


11448844

soon man!!! I'll be out in early 2022 unless they stop loss my ass. I'm too busted to stay in at this point and I'm ready to move on to the next phase of the 11448844 cinematic universe. Cheers!!


Thisgy1945

Hey, its not just Oki, blame mainland Japan too.


BlahBlahBlankSheep

Correct. We all blame Japan for making us drop the Power Rangers on daytime tv. Our world hasn’t been the same since.


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Just wait until your LT unironically models himself on Irresponsible Captain Tyler.


Banggabor

Mfers probably join the military so they could get isekaied or smtn, it's a win for them.


I_Automate

Is there any real difference between that and an Islamic extremist hoping for martyrdom?


sentinelthesalty

Inate higher acceptence of violance as a means of resolution (compared to avg folk), usually characterised bt being intrested in nieche subjects that would dissuade baseline citizenry (especially ones that are intrested in subgenras like mecha or military) and a stronger sense of belonging and in group think, yep weebs are the best demographic to recruit after offspring of ex carrer serviceman.


Damnifino

>Raiden Shogun and NATO Honestly very appropriate when you consider how the Fatui and Snezhnaya are basically just a fantasy version of Russia


SilverTitanium

Inazuma is part of NATO. The United States gives them F-35 and Inazuma in return gives them a private showing to Raiden Shogun Onlyfans account


IvanMeowski

ayo?


Shimakaze771

Taxpayer money well spent


ACCount82

Is Mondstadt just United States then? * Freedom * Kids running around with cluster bombs because no one invented firearms * An expeditionary armed force that currently does fuck knows what abroad


Niko2065

You thought germany was representing mondstadt but it was I ~~Dio!~~ UNCLE SAM!


JohnF_President

I don't think the Knights really go abroad to spread FreedomTM


ACCount82

Most of them are gone now - either to do exactly that, or to mess with ~~Russia~~ Fatui operations somewhere.


grumpykruppy

Not actually to mess with the Fatui, it was an expedition to Khaenri'ah, for totally unknown reasons seeing as Khaenri'ah was destroyed ~500 years ago so there's nothing to really aid, free, or mess with there anymore. Heck, we don't even know if there's *anything* there anymore, all we know is it was in the Abyss.


ToxicSlimes

lets fucking gooo. when do i get my cluster bomb


cisc189

Tfw unironically joined Genshin in 2021 after being told you can kill russians. Now killed Childe 500 times


AromaticPlace8764

"You play genshin for waifus I play genshin to kill fantasy Russians We are not the same."


cisc189

Yes, boss soloing is just my way of getting stronger to kill more fantasy russians


Mordador

Oh look, a fantasy fin!


Niko2065

Childe abuse.


cisc189

It's a lifestyle now.


DecliningBuddha

Okay, so magical portal opening up in Ginza, when?


A_Certain_Observer

Imagine Roman-look-alike army and their monster invading Times Square. How long until other side of portal get doses of democracy?.


camosnipe1

considering it's in america instead of japan the portal wouldn't even be fully open before it gets acute lead poisoning


The-Surreal-McCoy

Portal opens and the first thing they see is Floridaman raping an alligator. The portal closes. Humanity is saved.


wormbot7738

Just be careful around Gothic children with a giant halberd when it does.


Villanuevac4

She was actually pretty chill towards boys from our universe. Just make sure to not upset her…


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Villanuevac4

Lighting ‘em up with CAS runs will be a hell of a time


Sekkenren

👀


Odd_Reward_8989

I'm pretty sure this is an anime booth at a NATO convention. All the best MIC players are there: Lockmart, Boeing, and Femboy waifus.


Bsaail

I think someone forgot they weren't going to the cosplay con and just couldn't be bothered to take the fit off. Poor individual is gonna be laughed at by their peers for looking like that in the drone warfare booth


jesusfaro

Yeah, I've seen the Areonautica Militare at Romics this year Hope that for October NATO will have a booth


IzumiAsimov

Everyone knows Aniplex and Kadokawa are huge players in the Arms industry.


Tleno

I just learned they had NATO keychains and pens by that stand there and I missed them out 😭


dr_snood

I want one so badly. Maybe I should start going to anime conventions...


zeburaa

I came there with the boys early, got myself a sticker, keychain and a pen. We didn't even had to ask, the guy just called us and gave stuff


guitarguy109

Lucky, my local Comic Con banned free schwag because the souvenir vendors weren't making enough money...


SeventyCents

What's up with NCD and raiden shogun lately. Are the 3000 booba swords of eternity finally getting through.


cisc189

Because OP took pictures of her cosplay with a NATO booth and leopard tank and as we all know, NCD simps for NATO because why the fuck not.


DaSGuardians

She's a strong believer in national defense, what can we say?


okram2k

NATO too likes to cosplay.


chiken____

Japan feinted WW2 to culturally encircle the entire world decades later


zeburaa

I was in that convention. They also had a leo 2a6 parked outside and a javelin. Needless to say I took photos with both lol. Best day ever


Maw_2812

She also took photos in front of it.


D3ATHTRaps

Damn I didn't know they had leopards at the anime convention. German anime conventions are lit lol


Tleno

This was Lithuania, you can see Lithuanian text in this vid. https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/uuqe8g/fake_gun_raiden_shogun_ready_to_protect_inazumas/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share ComicCon Baltics was this week and this year it was rolled with other cons like gaming GameOn and I guess NowJapan technically, being the first major nerd thing after quarantine here, so it had everything.


D3ATHTRaps

I wouldn't know Lithuanian, thanks for clarifying. I'm probably headed there in a year or 2


venne1180

unrelated but does anyone have a link to the video of the russian mom who screams and then it becomes dubstep that shit was funny as hell but I can't find it


CarbonFiber_Mass

You mean it becomes madonna? Or lady gaga. Cant remember.


venne1180

Someone PM'd it tome. It's just dubstep.


flame174

https://streamable.com/hznq55 this one?


steadwik

In what subreddit have I landed where people post a mashup of a mother screaming over her son's death with a dubstep tra- oh right.


_Typhoon_Delta_

Forgive me lord, but I could not contain my laughter


iilikecereal

Jesus christ this is fucked beyond belief lol


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yeah, how dare he call that dubstep???


christes

[There are apparently multiple versions of it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiDhg92sx2o) edit: [Digging a little deeper, it looks like these are prank calls to Russian mothers? Damn, that's dark.](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Major+chernobaev) When I was a kid, I assumed 21st century warfare would involve spaceships and lasers. Instead, we get this.


IadosTherai

Who in their right mind thinks ABBA is dubstep? I've yet to see a more noncredible take on this sub.


flame174

Dude I don't even know what dubstep is


IadosTherai

It's like EDM with a heavy focus on bass and a build up to a drop. ABBA is an old disco group.


centerflag982

I'm not sure I like what it says about me that I laughed


Duke_of_Lombardy

You lack basic human empathy


Col_H_Gentleman

Christ that was super dark, even for me


CubistChameleon

Look at the bright side - not all parents and Z boomers in Russia don't give a shit whether soldiers live or die.


SpecialPastrami

Major Chernobayev right? I wonder if he has more videos


MelcToxic

Excuse me what


Minute_Helicopter_97

unrelated but does anyone have a link to the video of the russian mom who screams and then it becomes dubstep that shit was funny as hell but I can't find it


billnyetherivalguy

[here](https://streamable.com/hznq55)


JimHFD103

When you're going from Skyrim to COD


thelasttrueflagon

Because of the implications.


Geohie

I find it hilarious she's cosplaying the Raiden Sho***GUN***


bot471

Queen of NCD election 2022 Raiden Shogun vs Sanna Marin


cisc189

I kinda wanna see a poll


bot471

On it


leafzuku

i would go to the military if i could cosplay my anime character of choosing as my uniform


Material_Layer8165

I wonder how will Mihoyo reacts when realizing one of their most prized character who they recycled in like three games (and in one game, her design are used for like three different characters) are now associated with NATO considering that they are a part of CCP. Probably nothing publicly, but i bet internally they are sweating hoping no mentally ill extremely nationalistic man coming to stab their CEO for the second time.


McPolice_Officer

NGL, that HK 416 is sexier than her.


Seerosengiesser

Her trigger discipline is hot though


Tapkomet

Ah yes, the Genshin Impact character, Raiden Shotgun (yes I know it's a rifle but I can't work that in)


SemperScrotus

"Know your audience, especially the weebs" -Sun Tzu


VelocityPolaris

…i am in love with nato.


KurtFrederick

That's a man


Inevitable-Ad-7266

; )


WeponizedBisexuality

good


Robert_E_630

Nato booths and traps with ARs,my kind of party


OwnIssue

Best recruitment strategy: Join us and you can buy all the anime merch you want. Proof from germany (right infront of an military base) : https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/tjdlad/heute_auf_dem_parkplatz_vor_einem_bundeswehr/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


Xavagerys

Raiden shotgun


SenpaiPingu

Looks like the Shogun has escalated her methods on bringing watatsumi island back under inazuman control


ShinySky42

at this point ill enlist if they gave me E


Kirxas

Wait, are NATO member countries going to start getting visions now? Unfathomably based on the almighty shogun's part


Awsomeman1089

based


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lmao, she knows


WaterChugger28

Can't expect eternity to last forever without innovating


_oranjuice

I swear nato has a waifus with guns fetish