We're famous!

Okay, not really, really, but this is still pretty cool!

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I don't know if any of you are anime fans, I'm not a huge fan myself, but I like to watch every now and again. One show I like is called Shangri-la (it's in Japanese w/ English subtitles). It's got an interesting story line, and some of the characters are pretty funny; I like Momoko, a "sexy transexual" and Takehiko.

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Anyhoo, Yokota Air Base made a cameo appearance in a recent episode of Shangri-la (episode 13). How cool is that?
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(screenshot courtesy of ZOMGanime.com)
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Last summer, the US Navy put out their own manga (kind of a Japanese comic book, but waaaay better, manga are hugely popular and read by people of all ages and walks of life), "CVN 473" and gave out free copies to the residents of Yokosuka, in an effort to put a positive spin on the impending arrival of the USS George Washington, a nuclear-powered supercarrier, at the base in Yokosuka. Understandably, there were a lot of protests by the Japanese when it was announced that the GW would be based in Yokosuka. They gave out 30,000 copies of the manga, I'd really love to have one! You can download a free copy, in both Japanese and English, at the site linked above, but I'd still love to have a copy of the real book!
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