July 3, 2006
Maritan Intensive Language Drill
This lovely package came in today. Inside are full size illustrations, comics, and examples designed to help you have fun learning and speaking like a drill sergeant. Think of it as "Moetan," but only for the colorful style of English supposedly spoken by Marines (or at least what Japan believes it to be spoken by Marines). Of course, by "colorful," I mean hilarious sentences such as "I like you. Come over to my house and fuck my sister."
The pack also includes a voice CD which proved to be the best part (and is real reason I ordered this thing). Ai Tokunaga is cast brilliantly as Maritan, and her engrish inflection is noticeably better than Yukari Tamura. Still, it's scarily good enough to give me great enjoyment, despite being belittled as a subhuman amphibious piece of shit. Ayako Kawasumi, Mai Kadowaki, and Tomoko Kaneda also provide their talents as Navy-san, J-tan, and Army-san, respectively.
Some images. Click to enlarge:
Maritan ICE BURNS Navy-san with "lol texas" even though she isn't from Texas. She also supports the Bush administration in hating French "slots."
Pics of the allstar cast. Ayako once again shows she seems to blindly take on any role with no rhyme or reason. Not that I'm complaining.
Posted by Paranda at July 3, 2006 6:49 PM
Comments
http://mixi.jp/view_bbs.pl?id=8234719&comment_count=4&comm_id=2033
Did ya read that yet!!
(PS Maritan ahhh I want it~~~~~~)
Posted by: Anonymous at July 3, 2006 8:59 PM
Now you got me all interested. I've been hearing about this Maritan collection for quite some time now but never thought it would be this funny and cute.
Btw, /r/ mixi invitation ;P
Posted by: pKjd at July 4, 2006 12:09 PM
Sent you an invite pKjd.
Posted by: Paranda 
at July 5, 2006 1:19 AM
Thanks! Now to see what all the fuss is about :D
Posted by: pKjd at July 5, 2006 12:31 PM