a 100 secure the but that's all for now. coming up next japanese mega comics in the fascination with nazi imagery at store is coming up on some files after a short break. don't forget, you can always step today on a website that's to be found at dw dot com for our social media channels. handle this at the w needs. the my name is the calls back said wow, thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold the bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it aloud. and that's what it being nosy bay like good everyone to king. check out the award winning called called at the back of them. and was that a kind of calculating system, manga and anime a series to trivialize and drawer for the military and weapons of the 2nd world war

. so so i'd characters and assess uniforms. swastikas, so many germans. it's shocking to find out that manga. and i'm a series seems to be making on critical use of not c aesthetics courses. of course a huge problem because the state does not even put a stop to it and how to get bored. why of comics that trivialize the horrors of the nazi so successful historical references are completely ignored or the tire is simply no awareness behind it. what is the holocaust, what ideology? what is this great catastrophe based on a community military uniforms on tanks, robots and military bases. and it's a huge topic in the manga inanimate world. how widespread is minute tourism in manga. and does this content pose a danger? the

this is what the hell of a world of manga usually looks like populated by cute so, so i turn those in funny questions. the illustrated stories followed adventure, fantasy and friendship. the magnifying community meets the annual lights, the put in germany where a peaceful and colorful costs play. festival also takes place a weapons, fish, and not see where a ship they don't exist here, but some people have stumbled across the occasional swastika while reading manga one of the 3 of them associated with the, especially when you come across a symbol that has such a negative connotation, you naturally love to see why it's in your rank up in my mind. god. so if you look into it a bit, you know what it actually means, especially in asia. if you look around here, there are a lot of people cost of paying the top to mind. you can, you want to have deliberately covered it up, which is a good habit i have are not on my own,

but on my back symbol that's covered up. it's the swastika go in the opposite direction. it's known in buddhism as a symbol of goodman. and in germany, of course, it's better known for its meaning and national socialism, where it goes my other direction is above that. of course, the similarity is frightening and disturbing for many in the colored manga series published in germany, the symbol is deliberately not redacted, but left as it is in the japanese. the original in the manga tokyo revenge is it is the ancient symbol, the tombs, the jacket of the young gang members. as a mark of identification the publish, it emphasizes the origin of the symbol, notice benji, and its original meaning as a symbol of good luck. on its website, the publisher attempts to raise awareness was a positive symbol that was really perverted by not. it makes it revised. we want to

publish an uncensored of a while, but we also want to be sure that there are no references denazi's glorification of the 3rd, right. and the like to highlight that. and that is absolutely not the case at all. in principle, this is a symbol of this gang. in this context however, it was important to us that there should be no conjunction or misunderstandings. so we put an explanation at the front of every volume on the phone i will find put simply will, glorifying, among all emotional infringe, phenomenon, german publishers scrutinize critically and do not to introduce any examples of it onto the european market. the arm of the heart and then some bizarre productions never the less makes the leap from the japanese market into the wide world. that's also the case for the successful production goes and print, so it's been a long running hit on streaming services in europe. the enemy and manga series has

been around since 2012 goes at a boarding school compete against each other in tank driving. it's been to make a success in japan for years with a mixture that fits into the current japanese social discourse and is easily marketed. and that's difficult with an emission, samantha, but they've tried to create what i would describe as a mixture of 3 things that i think sell well in japan. i know one is the military aspect i. e plane war. let me say this in general terms out for them also against the background of the fact that the military in general is currently being promoted by the state and japan decide to get filled with older japan is a pest of this country, according to its constitution. it also invests billions in weapon systems for defense re, um, moment that has been the content. so it's a political issue for years since i don't work as good for call. what? oh well, what is successful is then okay in japan, so to speak. so that is of course of very big problem does is not to lose and guns,

guns cause to claim. but what does this uncritical affinity for the ministry in japan come from the japan reading manga is parts of everyday life. 9 gives the medium with equal states us along side books and film, manga read by people or ages, the mind games, it goes, boys, adults, and seniors. but what does the infatuation, even a dangerous nazi cult, nice manga come from. to understand it, you have to dig deep into the collective memory and to look at history. the japanese fascination with germany and everything german goes back to a long way more than 150 years. in 1968, the mind, the restoration named for then and per my g began to fall reaching a peebles scholars was sent abroad in west and teachers were brought in,

especially from prussia. and i'm was following through on this job hard to remember that when japan was modernized during the maggi restoration, it was looking for the best of everything worldwide. and so for the best and the medicine and see where the best and law spectrum down for the best in the military would. that's best. and the best military at that time was the pressure of military and i'm not comfortable with. so pressure and experts were brought to japan to advise on modernizing the military and the calf author. and by way of the military was organized. it's now dissolute, of all sorts of things. it's very german oriented. honest, nick, even the military music is very german oriented and will you tell me to come was because of the i'm and the hutch sent in an open and you pressure became a role model in terms of wolf. the idea of the perfect ministry was shaped by germany from the very beginning

i'm with him said a say i feel it. you may have to realize that there were a lot of young people who played with more toys the time during the war. and i thought many tardies and who were simply militarized systematically because it was in the interests of state to that on cops. it's something you missed. so it doesn't work like a light switch off for you just like press it and then you'll switched from a militaristic society instead to a pass if this one keeps cuz that's after the 90 feet is because that's a post war. and the 1950s depend, like germany experienced an economic food in just a few decades. japan became a high tech nation. oh, that was constitutionally passed. the 1st weapons and weapons technology was still very popular in society, including german weapons technology, the most popular children's toy of the time. what model kits of german tanks and weapons also appeared in manga kind of defects. and that sort of size. like you see the fascination on 2 sides of the reader side on the one hand or tool and the

authors side on the other. my god could size and there are people who have written manga who were themselves coming back. nice, very quick, small soldiers and the 2nd world war time looks like the ottoman for one of the best known is meet with the she get with every kind of students who also drew and produced. a manga called hitler law, among a good sized that's put it to make the author's mid suki should go through emerald hitler's biography in the 19 seventy's as a manga for adults he had experienced the horrors of war close tend, as a soldier and throughout his career the mind, the officers to post all those who glorified will one of the full fathers of bank the officers to zuka osama also sharply criticized. not see audiology. he drew the manga crime series out of a good testing. it saturated fictional philip based on the promise, the titles hitler had see quick jewish ancestry. the

help the young japanese people do this, openly flaunting, the nazi ascetic, ignorant of the unimaginable atrocities committed by those who wore these uniforms . would either these girls think o these uniforms? or kind of sexy and i'm not really interested in the, in human ideology behind them m detroit and just been around for a long time as little as an ongoing discussion in japan would this fascination with militarism. that's what it's and you have to say, of course that the japanese have a completely different relationship to the history of the holocaust and the germans to ship to the total cost of the let's get yeah, there are no concentration camps. japan, that you can visit us month is when you come. in other words, unlike us, there is no obligation to see it with your own eyes. this mix, i'm an old, honest with you. apparently the not see a septic has more fascinating countries that did not suffer under the nazis,

according to researches and other aspect is that japan was an aggressor in world war 2. but likes to point to the even was the bad guys to nazis, possibly to divert attention from its own, killed the way in which understandings of history in japan and germany defy and does not critically scrutinize can be seen beyond nice products, a night approach to the difficult historical facts even appears in a successful world wide series of mine, and i'm a best seller, a tech on site and has been going strong for over 10 years. for seasons and $99.00 episodes is a fictional post apocalyptic kara story. humanity is frightened by doug can take many things humanoids cold tysons. this service also draws inspiration from germans, that type of song these huff, german, huff japanese. the protagonist is named aaron giga, jacob, being the general word for hunter. and the template for the medieval town is the

bavarian town of nursing. and, and what is explosive is that the story is also being criticized. is why the critics in particular accusing the estimate of providing space for an explanation and anti semitic conspiracy theories. just like scroll through d as in dog, i spelled b as new group that is imprisoned in this village. they used to be the rulers of this world. and faith and my uncle give us later in the main, but it's revealed that this ethnic group was originally the rulers funding the house up. and then they were oppressed, marginalized and exploited as water. for these type us what's up with is the to tollen. i was 2 boys there depicted with a bracelet with a star on it did with i'm but i understand how so it's not too far fetched to argue that this ethnic group is a reference to the jews. and the 3rd rice t on the flex cooper. i know i've been and if you consider that this ethnic group was originally the ruler of the world, the flex global work, but then it's not

a far leap to say that it's okay. that reminds me of anti semitic conspiracy theories according to which the jews would rule us all of the house and brutal. the marketing for the show, it showed literally the sensitivity for the controversial aspects of bands was set to be launched as merchandise in 2021 off to and that was quite including from the fan base. the items were quickly withdrawn, but science defend the series. they say the allocation that it has nationalistic, under tons, misses the complexity, arguing that attack on titan, criticizes faxed, you structures racism and propaganda. they say the series opposes historical revisionism and violence that different positions are expressed. and that's, it is a repeat because the emphasized the most trust is inherent in every human being, not just certain ethnic groups just by the control of i see the of

a series has broken, streaming records influence, pop culture and sparked discussion for 10 years. this may also be true to the fact that it leaves room for interpretation, rather than providing simple explanations a characteristic of almost or manga a global. and yeah, i think it is more of an opportunity to discover new stories and take more new ways of looking at the world. so in think you have to really critical by all means that you shouldn't demonized at all now. and it's the main guys destroying our society. now we, that's nonsense culture. the, the theme is in manga o w, some break to booze with renovation, but also ignorance, even of a critical look at some series is necessary. one of the main characteristics of manga remains the complexity, manga polarize, images of women, and the depiction,

abundance of also topics. step up, folk discussion. what do you think, mangos, an important free space for deserving of more critical observation? let us know in the comments this is date of the news africa on today's program. the civil war raging into done nearly 2 years into the fighting cost of the country is facing honda and millions of displaced and use war. the scale of the impacts is catastrophic. it's the big gives you monetary and crisis on the planet to the biggest hunger crisis. big is displacement crisis, whole team building and people fling the homes and the well is given. here's the shrub gummies, i think the world this is neglect tablets testing here. and there is no

excuse for violence against women and go.