OUR ALLIANCE - A LASTING PARTNERSHIP

The US military is to use manga-style comics to teach Japanese children about the two countries' security alliance.

Four comics featuring a Japanese girl and a visiting US boy.
In it the young girl, Arai Anzu - which sounds like alliance when pronounced by a Japanese person - asks the boy, Usa-kun - a play on USA - why he is protecting her house.

"Because we have an alliance," he says. "We are 'Important Friends'."

"It's good to have a friend you can rely on to go with you," the little girl concludes.

Genre(s): Comedy, Historical

Updated Time: Oct 20, 2016

MAGICAL MARINE PIXEL MARITAN. MARITAN FOCUS DRILLS.

The premise is simple. You follow the days of Sergeant Maritan, a Drill Instructor of um… the U.S. Marines? Well, yeah. Apparently, Maritan is actually a Princess from the Magical Kingdom of Paris Island, which has signed a treaty of co-operation and friendship with the Great United States of America. God bless America. Maritan usually goes around abusing training raw meat recruit Army-tan, under the supervision of Lieutanent Commander Navy-tan. There’s a GA-tan somewhere near the end too, a meganekko attached from the Self Defence Forces, it seems.

Genre(s): Comedy, School Life, Seinen

Updated Time: Oct 23, 2016

Maritan Eigo no Drill F*ck Hen

A short manga about American Marines and the word "F*ck" through the eyes of the Japanese!  (From: MU)

Genre(s): Comedy

Updated Time: Sep 23, 2019

Magical Marine Pixel Maritan

The premise is simple. You follow the days of Sergeant Maritan, a Drill Instructor of um… the U.S. Marines? Well, yeah. Apparently, Maritan is actually a Princess from the Magical Kingdom of Parris Island, which has signed a treaty of co-operation and friendship with the Great United States of America. God bless America. Maritan usually goes around abusing training raw meat recruit Army-tan, under the supervision of Lieutanent Commander Navy-tan. There’s a GA-tan somewhere near the end too, a meganekko attached from the Self Defence Forces, it seems. Originally published at the back of ARMS, a Japanese airsoft magazine.

Genre(s): Comedy

Updated Time: Mar 30, 2023