Jun 15, 2021
RAIDEN-18
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RAIDEN-18
That one time Himoru Arakawa purposefully upset Chinese readers by parodying Mao Zedong to… prevent piracy?
The page is from chapter 3 of Raiden-18 and the second panel depicts a zombified former CCP Chairman Mao Zedong ('Kezawa Higashi') asking where the toilet is.
Arakawa: The third chapter was when pirated editions of Fullmetal Alchemist were being churned out in "that country" like crazy and I was feeling bitter. I was thinking that my work wasn’t selling well there anyway, so I decided to draw a manga that couldn't be pirated in that country. That’s the chapter I created with that kind of defiant attitude—like “You’re not getting this one, I’m going with material you can’t bootleg.” Something like that, I think.
Seeing Stalin, Hitler and Mao drawn in the FMA style is a bit insane ngl