The Far East Incident

[MangaDex]

 

[ku4eto]

Looks promising. Could use a description though.

 

[BoavRum]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

 

[gr8g]

Considering the furore over the Unit 731 reference in My Hero Academia, I'm surprised that this was approved for serialization. Hope its not a whitewashing of war crimes type of manga

 

[Rhinoceros]

@gr8g That's because MHA is popular overseas. The japanese really don't care about this stuff. From what I'm seeing in the first chapter, they're not trying to deny the war crimes. Hell, both MCs are siding with the Americans so

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Seems interesting, they are actually hunting the remnants of them, there might be scientists still around for shooting too but probably for the wrong reason ordered by the higher ups (trying to sell info to some other nation) as the unit were pardoned by US.

 

[TroubleFait]

@gr8g @Rhinoceros
Did MHA deny war crimes in their depiction of Unit 731? I didn't follow it recently.

 

[Rhinoceros]

@TroubleFait
Basically the name of an evil scientist character happened to be a reference to these Unit 731 experiments. Horikoshi and publisher claimed they weren't referencing anything, but it still pissed off the Chinese and the twitter mob so Horikoshi had to quickly rewrite it.

 

[yugioh20]

Again stupid noob protagonist . I don't understand why a protagonist like this can survive in battlefield or because he is protagonist😒 . Please, author, stop to create a stupid cheat protagonist with big mouth .

 

[4V29LN0n]

Very strange pacing.

 

[Toykio]

Japan and greywashing war crime history. Name a more iconic duo.

 

[GoodShit]

Some one actual pick up this manga. Definitely worth 2 years of being bookmarked.

 

[Scrabbleman]

I actually have no idea what this manga is about. I guess they're hunting down remnants of the experiments that they did. But what's up with the Variants? Why are they so difficult to die, except for headshots?

 

[Turkeyjerkey]

Sigh. Another series where the entire store revolves around a character with a lot of potential for development, conflict, and pathos, only for the author to chicken out and insert an incredibly boring different character as protag who will probably remain completely static for the rest of the story for the sake of being "relatable."

Not to mention the scan group using a nazi symbol as their logo lmao, did you forget to grow up after middle school?

 

[Sgotfastbrainz]

Sigh. Another series where the entire store revolves around a character with a lot of potential for development, conflict, and pathos, only for the author to chicken out and insert an incredibly boring different character as protag who will probably remain completely static for the rest of the story for the sake of being "relatable."

Not to mention the scan group using a nazi symbol as their logo lmao, did you forget to grow up after middle school?

that's /AK for you...

they do all the obscure war mangas that nobody else picks up because of the sharp edges. a necessary evil if you like war stories in manga format, because litterally nobody else digs up manga corpses like them.

as for the mc... he's the same cut as Saichi Sugimoto. Chaotic good, badass and suicidal. maybe a little less homoerotic, but still, i dont think that's a boring protag by any means.

the author is a post/prewar car and guns nerd, that's an automatic yes for me, lol. Just surprised to see a citroen traction avant in japan. these would've MAYBE been imported by 1939 to vietnam, then captured and sent to japan.. still exotic as fuck lol.
the lancia aprilia could have been imported during the war as italy had an embassy in tokyo till the late stages of the italian campaign.

 

[Turkeyjerkey]

Sugimoto was much more interesting and well considered, though his arc did end up being peppered in rather lightly between a lot of plot and action.

As for this manga, the author would have to pull nothing short of a miracle to make me feel a single thing about the mc. Not blank enough to be a blank slate, not developed enough to be a real person. He occupies a horrible, deadly dull middle position of absolute worthlessness.

 

[Pokari]

Japan and greywashing war crime history. Name a more iconic duo.

When it comes to historical discussion of Unit 731, I always want everyone to remember that the U.S. of A. gave several of them immunity in exchange for joining the budding american biological weapons program. Like Operation Paperclip, but we talk about it a lot less.

And then the U.S. may or may not have used that 'knowledge' in the Korean war. Honestly, given that the tactics claimed to be used seem to be from Unit 731's playbook, seems like there's a pretty good chance it's true. Just no one pays it much attention because the only people complaining about it are those it presumably happened to—and no one's inclined to pay much attention to things North Koreans say, because, well, yeah. Crying wolf aesop and all that.

Now, of course, there's plenty of "everyone was being a little shit back then" to go around, and, at the same time, two wrongs don't make a right. Regardless, it's something to keep in mind when throwing shade at Japan for not owing up to their war crimes. We (in this case by 'we' I mean the anglosphere, roughly) do an awful lot of 'not owing up' ourselves.