#zerosen

[jukeboxxx21]

Boyfriends uh I mean pilots

[jukeboxxx21]

I’m so glad other people know who he is 😭🩷

[dunhamrc]

Zerosen - Asphalt

[straycatboogie]

2023/06/25 English

BGM: コトリンゴ - 悲しくてやりきれない

It was a day off today. After finished reading Karen Cheung's "The Impossible City", I uploaded a short review and a pic of it on Instagram (I believe that this book would be in "one of the best books in the first half of 2023", or just "the best books in the whole 2023"). I brought it to the library to return, and found an interesting book "Trop intelligent pour être heureux?" by Jeanne Siaud-Facchin. It seems that the translation of that content is not natural so a little bit difficult to read. But it would follow one of the fields I am interested in so I decided to borrow that. By the way, once I had been checked my IQ by WAIS-III, I was told that it could be 121. I heard that the meaning/definition of the IQ of gifted is more than 130. In short, I am not a gifted person... But even though it could be, I guess this difficulties I have been feeling would come from that characteristic of mine. I want to learn from that book modestly... How would it work?

A Discord user from America had asked me that "Does the Japanese learn about MXY-7 in schools?". TBH I had never heard that MXY-7 so googled it, and found that it was related with "Zerosen" in the WW2 (or The Pacific War). I answered him like this. "We Japanese tend to learn the history from our ancient time in schools. Therefore we have to learn that war at the end of the semester. At that time we don't have enough time to learn steadily... But instead of that, some of Japanese marvelous anime, manga artists and authors express their great works about that war. Have you ever heard the anime 'In This Corner of the World'?". Then he watched that "In This Corner of the World", and sent me that he was really impressed by that. It "provoked" him a lot of ideas... I see. It could be a tiny, "So what?" story. But I want to write this "fruit" of the international communication/friendship. I also thought that I want to see Suzu-san in that movie at Kure, the city she has lived. I would like to watch it again on Netflix.

After enjoying a nap, I went to AEON. There, I tried to complete writing the handout of homework to the English conversation class. But I couldn't. So I thought I have enough time to wait for the good idea coming. I tried to read the book I borrowed this morning, "Trop intelligent pour être heureux?" with one of my favorite albums "Voyager" by Momus. After that, I even tried to read Yukio Mishima's "Confession of a Mask". Yukio Mishima's that masterpiece is a kind of "spiritual source" for me to try to write my memoir. Suddenly, I thought that "Oh my gosh, I am just an old dude and now living in the middle of my midlife. What chapter am I living in my life story?". Now is the 2020sm but I am living in virtual 1990s like enjoying the "endless adolescence". I listen to Blur, Beastie Boys, and Oasis. I read Haruki Murakami and Paul Auster... I can't see if it would have any value to write my memoir. It is really enigmatic. But I don't want to spend my days without nothing till I die. I want to write about my "Young, Alive, In Love" story.

This evening I attended to an online meeting on ZOOM. There, watching an American sitcom "The Cosby Show" without any subtitles, we tried to talk about what the characters were talking. What was going on in this great home drama? And suddenly, the host asked us "How would you do if you feel great sadness?". We talked about that a lot, too. When I am sad... Once I bought a lot of cans of beer, and drank them completely till I fell asleep. In a way, it could mean that I had tried to press the reset button of my brain. But, as you know because you are using your laptop, desktop, or smartphones, that might "crush" myself exactly. So now I try to think like this. "I have to let myself flow in time. Time will cure my mind/soul". I say this to myself, and would watch some great classic movies. Comedies, or depressive movies... Yasujiro Ozu's masterpieces, or the movie "In This Corner of the World" also will cure my spirit too. I wished I could talk about this kind of instant lifehacks with the Russian friend, Victoria (She is from Russia... then I want to talk about the movies by Tarkovsky even if this idea is too "readymade").

[daisukeokamoto]

“Zero”

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Custom toy art

Mixed media

[jukeboxxx21]

Holy SHIT YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY THIS MAKES ME?????

I am completely obsessed with this manga and others like it and so seeing literally any other English speaker give it any attention gives me so much fucking serotonin you don’t understand????? Thank you so much for talking about this old ass boys war propaganda so I can freak out about it some more omfg 😭🥹💕💕💕💕

0-Sen Hayato - Volume 3

It feels like it took me a whole year to get through this one lol. It's boring, but not the worst thing I've ever read. Sometimes something spicy will happen (like someone dying or the romance side plot inches forward) and that's enough to keep me going.

Ch. 23

-In this chapter the gang tries to blow off some steam by goofing off and dancing (and getting drunk) but then their superior's superior comes in and chews them out. Hayato and Ishikawa get exiled (?) and sent to the jungle where they run into "a ghost." Meanwhile, the Americans plot their attack.

Ch. 24

-Hayato and Ishikawa find Ishiki in the woods wounded and bring him back to camp despite being exiled. Ishiki warns them about the encroaching enemy and then we cut to some sort of D-Day-esque scenario on the beach. The squad isn't allowed to participate in the battle because their territory is the skies, so they just watch on.

Ch. 25

-The boys continue to scramble to kill themselves for their country and for glory...this is seriously the least relatable thing I've ever read lol

-I don't really get how war works. If the air force can just attack the people on the ground, why didn't they just always do that? Lack of resources maybe? It kinda seems like an OP tactic...

Ch. 26

-This chapter was WILD. Hayato convinces the gang to kill a bunch of monitor lizards and dump their blood in the ocean. Then when the bad guys (Americans probably) attempted to storm the beach a bunch of sharks gathered and ate them all. That's wacky enough, but then they said that 10,000 soldiers were eaten!? Wtf...not possible. (I googled this and apparently there was a WWII incident where an American ship sank and 890 people were left in shark infested waters, probably the closest thing irl to this manga's ridiculousness).

-This manga has an anti-kamikaze stance, but it also shows its heroes as constantly ready and eager to die for Japan so...mixed signals.

Ch. 27

-I kinda liked this one, at least we got to meet Ishiki's sister (now a nurse). Of course everyone instantly has a crush on her because they're women-starved

-Wtf was up with the "muu" grass? It was strangely magical, like a tentacle monster? I guess since the last chapter jumped the shark (hehe) they feel like they can get away with this magical realism BS.

-Ishiki is WAY too committed to his rival bit. Someone needs to smack some common sense into him before he gets himself killed for real.

Ch. 28

-Ishiki continues to act recklessly, but I guess he's just getting away with it for now? Not sure if he just figured out how to compensate for his bad eye or if he got lucky and something bad will happen in the future...

-I think Hayato's dad just died? Hard for me to tell cuz all middle aged men look identical to me. Hayato did say "I sense a disturbance in the force" (paraphrasing). So I'm probably right. That seems like a pretty major character death for this series so I was a little taken aback!

Ch. 29

-Okay phew, I got it right. In this chapter Hayato finds out about his father's death and inherits his plane and katana. I thought the emotion of it all was handled pretty well without going into any melodrama. Since soldiers sign up knowing they might die (especially Japanese soldiers in WII) they'll probably react more stoically to that kind of news.

-We find out that it was the King Satan airplane that shot down Hayato's dad, because of course it was. Gotta give more fuel to the silly rivals plot. Ishiki acts like a douchebag again and is like "sorry about your dad, but I'm gonna make this about ME" lol. At least I can laugh at how cartoonishly shitty he is.

Ch. 30

-Hayato tries to figure out how to operate his Dad's plane which is "different from other Zero airplanes" (or whatever you call those in English). I didn't really get what he was saying about it, but I figured I probably wouldn't get it in English either so it's fine lol

-We get to see the nurse girls again which is always nice. The chubby one with braids is adorable. Of course they made each girl have a crush on their male counterpart (chubby girl likes chubby guy, skinny girl with a hooked nose likes the dude with a hooked nose, etc.) Whatever, there's so little body diversity in anime girls nowadays that seeing this lil bit of variety is refreshing.

Ch. 31

-The Bakufuutai's rival squad (the Shiuntai) get 35 new pilots but they are very inexperienced (only 150 hours of flight training). The Bakufuutai tries to be good senpai and stop them from flying recklessly, but the Shiuntai's leader is being a jerk as usual and tells them they can't tell his squad what to do. I should probably learn that guy's name lol.

-The hairy dude with big lips gets his own big lipped girl who's in love with him. Unfortunately they used this as an opportunity to make her "ugliness" a joke. Hey! If dudes are allowed to look funky girls should be allowed too >:/

Ch. 32

-This chapter was far too dialogue heavy and I barely followed what was happening. All I got was that Hayato and Ishiki were begging their leaders to not send the newbies off on a mission and then Hayato and friends end up being sent off to Manila for some reason. The nurse love interest creepily talks about being prepared to die a bunch...

[locomotive51]

比島観音 ゼロ戦のエンジンとプロペラ 多くの慰霊碑が並ぶ中に、昭和52年に遠州灘で底引き網の漁中に発見されたて、比島観音奉賛会に奉納されたというものがある💥 #ゼロ戦 #ゼロ戦のエンジン #零式艦上戦闘機 #戦争遺構 #比島観音 #三ヶ根観音 #西尾市 #zerosen #engine #propeller #warremains #hitoukannon #sanganekannon #nishio (比島観音) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2yVhKOgfdO/?igshid=4d6pzyjeqr8b

[mugems]

アスファルト (1976)

[smoky-sumis-studio]

. . . . . . . . R I S I N G . #risingsun #sunrise #zerosen #nowar #peaceworld #senior #badolddays #message #inspired https://www.instagram.com/p/BmdTmkFAN8l/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4eeqkjuuc11q

[buttererer]

Ittan Momen & Zerosen - Shiawase Modoki

from Omocha No Tanku (Victor)1976

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四万温泉夏祭り！明日のZEROSENダンスにシークレットゲスト到来！！交渉成立か？？？C&Kが四万温泉にやってくるのか？？？乞うご期待o(^o^)o #candk #C&K #四万温泉 #四万温泉夏祭り #四池 #シークレット #ZEROSEN (Shima Onsen) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0hNxcInpoq/?igshid=1fwaq2p5lv93r

[jukeboxxx21]

Here it is, one of my all time favorite Shōwa manga that I sadly couldn’t find anywhere online, and very little information about in general. I bought the books back in 2021 and finally got around to scanning, formatting, and uploading them online so everyone can enjoy. So, here’s volume 1 of Hiroshi Kaizuka’s WW2 boys’ manga Zerosen Red! Volume 2 will also be up soon 😋

Really hoping by making the whole thing available I can get more people into it so they can hear my endless autistic rambles about this 60 year old comic :,D

A friend and I are also in the process of translating both books into English… a beast of a project but one that I’m thoroughly enjoying 👀 I’m so damn excited by the prospect of other people discovering this and becoming as obsessed as I am >:3

[aquariumdrunkard]

The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

22° halo. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

Jean Michel Bernard – Générique Stephane ++ Ryo Kawasaki – Hawaiian Caravan ++ Kuroda Bushi – 黒田節 ++ Kosuke Ichiara & 3L – 市原宏祐と ++ Zerosen – Cool Head ++ Space Art – Mélodie Moderne ++ Brian Bennett – Solstice ++ Brian Eno – By This River ++ Air – Moon Fever ++ The Rabble – Intro ++ Ciao Manhattan – Brain Cells ++ Badge Époque Ensemble – Lujon ++ Badge Époque Ensemble – Andrew Void ++ Sun Ra – We’re Living In The Space Age ++ BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Vespucci ++ David Bowie – Sons of the Silent Age ++ Jack Name – Slow Moons Rose (Aquarium Drunkard Session) ++ Jack Name – Sarah (Aquarium Drunkard Session) ++ Jack Name :: The Wind Cries Mary (Aquarium Drunkard Session) ++ Johnny Walker – Love Vibrator ++ RAMP – The Old One, Two ++ The Ensemble Al-Salaam – Circles ++ Bob Cunningham – Lover’s Theme ++ Nick Drake – Poor Boy ++ Carsten Meinert Kvartet – One For Alice ++ Alice Coltrane – Jaya Jaya Rama ++ McCoy Tyner – Makin’ Out ++ Two Banks of Four – Foggy Dew (AD edit) ++ Grant Union High School – Ain’t No Sunshine ++ Chet Baker – The Touch of Your Lips ++ Amedeo Tommasi – Alghe Romantiche ++ Sun Ra – Springtime Again ++ DB Shrier Quartet – East

[gbfvfights]

GBVS- Zerosen's Amazing Ladiva Vs Zeta Master Tokinaga (FT2)

[daisukeokamoto]

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Custom Toy art

"Zero A6M5c"

7.5" x 9"

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And Raiden

[ickwysk]

大刀洗平和記念館の零戦。#tachiarai #airplane #zerosen