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Huh, never realized that's what "NHK" stands for

National Hookup Program (NHK), 1948 (文書名:GHQ/SCAP Records, Civil Intelligence Section = 連合国最高司令官総司令部民間諜報局文書) (課係名等:Press, Publication & Broadcast Division) (シリーズ名:Central File, 1945-49) (ボックス番号:8617 ; フォルダ番号:9)

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Any good texts on the first? I've never heard of it before!

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They really seemed kinda concerned about this

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Kamishibai? More like COMMIEshibai!!

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking through records of the US occupation of Japan to better understand censorship and publishing during that period, and came across this.

Special Report: Use of Kamishibai as Communist (文書名:GHQ/SCAP Records, Civil Intelligence Section = 連合国最高司令官総司令部民間諜報局文書) (課係名等:Press, Publication & Broadcast Division) (シリーズ名:Central File, 1945-49) (ボックス番号:8648 ; フォルダ番号:20)

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It’s okay to date the school shooter if he’s hot.

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Can't wait to watch this movie

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Well into the 60s in fact

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Forgot to mention: I've uploaded and translated the full comic here: www.instagram.com/p/DM_ZMj1BaXy

Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One thing that the Eh-Aye scam is actually useful for is revealing which organizations play a primarily parasitic role in the ecosystem of culture and knowledge production.

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If you're wondering why so many comics people are po'd about the Publishers Weekly PR stunt for an "AI" "graphic novel publisher" is because the whole piece is an insult to the hard work people do to make comics. No element can just be outsourced to a machine and then traced and not look like crap.

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Serves them right. You try to make money off the Big Culture Theft, you *should* get shunned by its victims

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Their book reviews are mostly useless anyways, given that they pay so little that reviewers are forced to skim and write accordingly

They seem pretty thin-skinned for how cynical they are

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Imagine if a person or company without billions of dollars started selling a product that is based on theft and encourages users to kill themselves and/or others.

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Eike Exner @eikeexner.com · 25/09/2026

Blocked by Publishers Weekly for this reply 🤷

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I thought Publishers Weekly was the company that pays freelancers 10 dollars for book reviews, not the one that does PR for the plagiarism software

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Unfortunately our Tamagotchi will reconfigure all company calculators to give them access to the nuclear codes unless the government abolishes copyright and whatever other laws might apply to our crimes. It's for the future of humanity.

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I'm excited to announce that my Tamagotchi has discovered the meaning of life. Here at Blorpsoxic we're all in shock. It's a great coincidence that our IPO is tomorrow.

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Oh the thieves are lying again? Let's give them even more stuff they haven't stolen yet, don't want to get left behind by the crimes software

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We hate giving money to the poor but love giving it to people who already have too much.

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If you or I hacked a government server, we'd be in prison.

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Mark Zuckerberg has decided to light on fire another couple billion dollars of the giant ad revenue money pile his company steals from others.

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I thought the snot bubble moved from Japanese animation (where it appears in the 1930s) to Japanese comics pretty late, but I came across it in this series from 1952, so it's been part of the manga repertoire at least since then. (Also saw it in a different serial from 1953.)

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The claims are that Mizuki was as influential as Tezuka, which there is little basis for, but at least that's somewhat subjective. The one that made me block was about how BUF appeared in a newspaper started by foreigners. Given your follower count I think you should be a bit more careful.

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It was an image and two social media posts iirc, though the final straw was a post with some false claims about Bringing Up Father. I don't want to fight about this, that's why I thought it was easier to block you. I do appreciate your mentions of my work, thank you.

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It's because I kept seeing you make claims that weren't true and using content from me without attribution several times.

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It's just not true and I wish he'd stop claiming that. Mizuki was popular but not that influential. I mean, just look at how unique his style is.

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It helps that almost all of Tezuka's works are easily accessible, while the vast majority from that period isn't.

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Imho it's usually because that's all people know about the early postwar. Heck, well known academics can't even tell the 1947 New Treasure Island apart from its 1984 remake, so the bar is low, and as long as you say Tezuka changed everything or "created modern manga" or whatever you look in the know

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But he was one of several influential creators and his impact has definitely been exaggerated. I'm not the first to make this point, but you *can* tell the history of manga without Tezuka (as Yonezawa does in his baseball-focused history).

He certainly was influential and reading stuff like Jungle Emperor in the context of its time reveals it to be avantgarde, like killing off a major character early on and then following their child instead. So he definitely did help expand the boundaries of what was considered doable in comics.

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In the 1930s, it was pretty common in animated cartoons to visualize breathing during sleep, e.g. via characters blowing out puffs of air. Since babies can inflate snot bubbles while sleeping, an animator probably got the idea from that and it gradually caught on, moving to the page around 1950.

This entire comic is visually impressive for its time, I'm surprised I've never come across this artist (Segoshi Ken) anywhere else. It also shows Disney and animation influence without any Tezuka influence, another bit of evidence that Tezuka's role in manga's development has been exaggerated.

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