People say Japan always references Germany and England all the time in anime and manga but is there any reason why Finland is always mentioned quite a bit, too?
>>134653457
Most people in Finland fit the stereo type that nips have of all westerns.
>Aryanmotherland
They get to draw the stereotype AND no be racist.
>>134653457
Japs love Finns. Nobody quite knows why.
They do have similar climate, both languages make it kinda easy to learn to pronounce the other, and both were kinda made into Axis during WW2... but that's about all I can think of.
>>134653457
>Finland is always mentioned
Nah it's not mentioned more than Sweden or any other irrelevant shithole. I think they love Norway since their mythos is so often used in almost every fantasy work.
>>134654422
nigga, Finland is everywhere!
Besides the nowadays generic as fuck use of (terms like) Valkyries and Valhalla, I don't really recall there being that much Nordic elements in animu.
Meanwhile, we just got an actual Winter War manga.
>OEL shit
>Japan
Moomin. Nip fucking love Moomin.
>>134653457
>Looks like nip mango
>reads left to right
my brain....
>>134654422
>Sweden a shithole
>Norway is popular because of mythos!
Swedish mythology IS Norwegian mythology.
Norwegian != Norse
>>134654829
I like how white death is in the background and has a generic desing and the lips-licking fairy is in front.
Japan just can't stop inserting waifus everywhere, can they? It would have been better if they made him a her and rolled with it.
>>134654967
This
>>134653593
>They do have similar climate
Finland is sub-tropic now?
>>134653457
How true is this page?
Finland sounds awesome.
>>134653593
>both languages make it kinda easy to learn to pronounce the other
But that's true for my country as well and japs don't even know it exists.
I can only find japanese lessons in english and their phonetics just complicate things.
>>134655482
Conversation part is true. We embrace the autism.
>>134655482
>>134655482
https://www.jyu.fi/en/academic-events/degrees-ceremony/instruct/doctoral-hats-and-sword
>>134655099
>It would have been better if they made him a her and rolled with it.
That's what they did, sonny.
![(成年コミック) [師走の翁] ヌーディストビーチに修学旅行で!! [2015-07-17].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ye9ZvvF.jpg "(成年コミック) [師走の翁] ヌーディストビーチに修学旅行で!! [2015-07-17].jpg")
ERITTAIN LEWDNESS
>>134656786
How does she aim when her face is to the side of the sights?
Any other Fnns read the Knights and Magic LN? It's fucking hilarious when there's Finnish names all over it.
>>134653593
>They do have similar climate
You can't be this retarded
>>134657417
God damnit my sides went to orbit when I saw this first time. Did he use google translate or some shit?
because Finland is made of memes
>>134657417
I can't go past two panels before the cringe overwhelms me goddamn.
>>134657417
The hell is this?
Also I don't actually know any stats but I sometimes feel like we have a very high concentration of people who are into animu and manga.
It's probably not any more than any other country though. Just somehow feels like it sometimes.
Finns loli here.
Why is Sealand never mentioned in manga though?
>>134658730
Because its population is 2 at most?
>>134659447
But it's my motherland
>>134659871
What's it like being a citizen of an anecdote?
>>134657417
miksi
>>134661327
It feels good man
>>134653457
haven't seen that many finland refereces
>>134653593
>similar climate
>>134653457
>nokia 3310
kek
>>134653457
>Finnish people don't believe in casual conversation. They'll only speak to each other if absolutely necessary
I am Asian so I don't know much about western country. Call me ignorance but is the statement above true? Because if it is, I'll move to Finland no matter what it takes.
>>134663507
Finnish people don't do small talk with strangers, they only do it with friends and such.
Anyone talking to stranger in bus or train etc. is considered to be weirdo or drunk.
>>134662389
It's rare to find a weeb drawn comic that can pass so easily something drawn by a moonlander.
Also, are there really that many blonde finns? I knew a few some years ago and they were all blonde and now this kraut-made series has blondes taking the center too.
>>134663784
>>134663784
There's something about it that makes it seem pretty obvious that it's not a real manga. Maybe it's the shape of the speech bubbles, or the fact that there's hardly any sound effects, but it doesn't really feel right. I guess the characters look pretty convincing though.
>>134664022
>There's something about it that makes it seem pretty obvious that it's not a real manga
Left to right.
>>134664083
Yeah, that too, but I meant by just overall looking at the pages without reading it.
>>134664001
[citation needed] but
>>134663784
Finn here. Yes, quite very many. Not all blonde obviously. There's a fair share of brown of all shades but dark brown or very dark/black is rare here much like fair hair is rare in southern europe.
It's all down to Tove Jansson, OP. Nips just can't get enough of the Moomins.
I was in Helsinki airport a couple of weeks ago and honest to goodness there were whole Japanese tour groups queuing up for photos with a statue.
>>134664001
I call bullshit on this one
>>134656786
Wrong one fampai.
http://ak-scans.wikia.com/wiki/Kolkka_the_icewind
The picture that is posted is an actual light novel from the Gate guy with ungenderbended Simo.
>>134653593
Japan's bathing culture and Finland's sauna culture are also somewhat similar.
Finnish and Japanese are superficially really similar, and there are a lot of shared words that are pronouned exactly the same.
>>134664022
When the artist has a girl that cute and knows how compose their panels that well I don't think anyone's going to be paying attention to the speech bubbles and sound effects. That said there are mangakas out there who don't make use of much sound effects and have horizontally aligned bubbles for their foreign settings.
>>134653457
They beat Russia. Japan Beat Russia.
https://youtu.be/G-AMtiVDC34
>>134664001
Dat fucking danelaw in England.
>>134664198
>>134664351
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Frost_06.html
>>134664562
>I don't think anyone's going to be paying attention to the speech bubbles and sound effects
I did.
>>134658600
What is this supposed to be?
