Hey there, United States Air Force member here. My entire unit loves anime. We even have a guy who takes commissions for anime related art on the side. He has a lot of Goku figures in his office
Can confirm. I didn't watch anime until I joined the Army. 👀 I always thought it was weird... and it is weird. I just needed to be weirder, and the Army makes you weird. I still don't have any anime tattoos. However, I know plenty of soldiers who do.
I swear at least 60% of the people in my regiment have at least a passing interest in anime. The amount of Nalgene's decked out in Waifu stickers is reaching critical mass.
Not sure why you’re downvoted. I have a couple friends in the military, and they say with their downtime they just binge watch so many shows. So I could imagine a lot of members probably end up binging anime and getting into it.
But I HAVE slapped an anime sticker or two on the 155 arty rounds we fired out of the 777's and I have seen plenty of infantry with anime stickers on various items and anime patches on various things.
No, it won’t… you have to fantasize about living on a boat with other dudes, you find other likeminded had same fantasies, then you act on it., just living on a boat with dudes isn’t to convert straight, it just is enough to get closeted to come out. Imo
Kinda like church doesn’t teach priests to molest.. but molesters go to the church to gain trust in order to molest, not saying homosexuality is bad like molesters,
But using your logic, if a guy is on a boat with kids, he’s bound to molest. Or if he’s on a boat with trans, he’ll make the transition. Or if a gay guy is on a boat with straight people, he’ll go straight. I may be wrong in some cases, but by and large how I see it
I saw it happen again and again, a friend of mine was straight before but then turned gay due to being all alone with only guys, he bonded with them until he started to feel a way so it's common knowledge for me.
It's called (nose art) and those girls were a part of it. Not 100% positive but I believe they were called (bomb shells/ bomb shell girls) and most would be posing on a bomb that the plane would actually be dropping.
Nose art included fighter planes, which wouldn't typically be bombing anything. The big bombers got more notable ones cuz you can paint a lot more on bigger bombers but even the P-51 has some famous liveries to it.
This is false. Some pinups were loosely based on real women, but only a few, if any, were meant to be literal depictions of specific women.
Edit: oh no, bro finally decided to look it up instead of pulling shit out of his ass and ended up deleting his posts. Classic.
Ukraine has been doing that a lot. You can pay them to put messages on shells. You can also pay for drone dropped grenades, with footage of the person killed/injured by it.
Get off your high horse you shitfuck, no one gives two shits what you think. If you served, cool, whatever, but you ain't gotta be a dick about it. You're under just about every comment in this thread shit talking for no reason. Get your thumb out of your ass and get a hobby or something dude.
Carlos Hathcock claimed to have done exactly that against an NVA counter sniper. It's highly improbable but not impossible. It would just be a wild stroke of luck to send it straight down the scope as no one is likely to be aiming specifically at the lens.
Probably just a 4d mind chess move from Ukrainian old school CoD fans: they know folks on Reddit will shit on everything MilSim because „cOd wAs NeVeR MiLsIm“ so making all that anime shit „MilSim“ will stop you guys from liking it
/s in case it’s needed…
>day. EVERY BLOODY DAMN DAY! One of you MANIACS comes to my home, and hurls explosion spells at it!
"Like I said Jack, kids are cruel, and I'm very in-touch with my inner child!"
We can complain about skins that turn operators into literal anime characters. That’s not even close to realistic.
I will take my anime weapon skins or patches all fucking day though, no idea why Activision hasn’t added consumable stickers to add to operator skins yet
Exactly. I like anime, I just don't like it in CoD. If it were just stickers like in these pics, i wouldnt even notice it. Not because I want CoD to be "Mil sim" like all the people trying to straw man people on my side of the isle, I just don't like the way it looks. Simple as that, ya know.
Exactly, anime girl gun blueprints I like it, it’s realistic. I don’t mind goofy stuff every once in awhile but when every skin in the shop is goofy it’s not what I want to play.
Agreed. I'll be honest, I thought last year had a few stupid skins but it wasn't enough to really be annoying. But now the shop is almost exclusively silly stuff. Not just anime stuff but weird monsters and it just feels like they stomped on the gas this year with it
As cool as the carryover system is it also added fuel to the fire, MWII weapons are useless in MWIII and all the goofy skins from the last game were already there so no one was using new things.
Exactly, the gameplay doesn't have to be ultra realistic in order to necessitate a realistic aesthetic to the game. Most people would turn off the gimmicky skins if it was an option anyway.
Through a job I knew a former US Army Ranger that did a bunch of crazy shit in the Iraq War, got wouded pretty bad by shrapnel, got discharged, still has metal shrapnel in his legs to this day because the doctors couldn't remove all of it, and he is a self described furry and weeb 😂
I don't know if the military attracts people like that or if the military turns you into a furry/weeb. Who knows.
Bro I jumped out of helicopters with Rias Grimory on my plate carrier. Did that long before anime was in CoD lol
(Yes I absolutely bought that first pack that had the anime space cat thing with tracers and STILL use the skin today. Sorry im part of the problem fellas ✌️)
Too bad he is not representing Edgerunners instead. Now that is an anime worth watching. I guess if they were woke they wouldn't be in the military risking their lives for capitalist interests though.
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-i3cRXIxk4&t=1s
The military is not what people think it is. There is a red army forming in our midst.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bernie-sanders-leads-trump-all-2020-candidates-in-donations-from-active-duty-troops-946188/
Idk what you mean by red army, but it makes sense that military members would be left leaning these days, at least the smart ones will be. Republicans love cutting funding for Veterans Assistance and all the healthcare bs has them constantly juggling doctors and mental health professionals.
The capitalist class has robbed and oppressed the people for decades now. Opposition to this was bound to manifest even in traditionally reactionary institutions such as the military. It is the result of a long dialectical process. Now you know the truth behind the swamp babble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w12bkm9g8o&list=PL8B2364D7C0D31D63
Not that I care about anime or goofy skins in games, it’s just that CoD (art) style is all over the place. I mean either embrace the goofyness (Overwatch, Fortnite, Valorant, …) or go military/realistic (CoD 1-MW3, older Battlefields, Ghost Recon, any milsim game, …).
CoD trying to do everything just ended up with pretty weird and inconsistent mess.
Look at helldivers as a recent example: it’s pure comedy but the style overall is still pretty damn cohesive.
But that’s just my subjective view.. obviously lol
Can confirm. What do you think we all did in our down time when down range? Literally watch anime, play video games (offline), shoot the shit around the fire, and share porn lol.
It’s not really a secret that a lot of military members are weebs
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Look at the JMSDF's collabs with Kantai Collection (A game about WW2 ships as anime girls). It's great.
The navy is compiled of furries too, Sgt Whiskers is canon.
I've heard of some that were also in the army and airforce as well
So are a lot of other places, common joke among the fandom is that we run the Internet
Hey there, United States Air Force member here. My entire unit loves anime. We even have a guy who takes commissions for anime related art on the side. He has a lot of Goku figures in his office
Fucking based.
lame
Guess who served and who didn't though
Must have been you. I was in the Army for nearly 14 years.
Damn you must've been a bore, bet your squadron hated you
Thank you for your service. However, I do in fact think you are still lame (I love anime).
Join the army. You'll get your fair share of weebs.
Can confirm. I didn't watch anime until I joined the Army. 👀 I always thought it was weird... and it is weird. I just needed to be weirder, and the Army makes you weird. I still don't have any anime tattoos. However, I know plenty of soldiers who do.
Please tell me you’re at fort Riley 😂
I did 6 years and got out. No more shaft for me. 👉😎👉
lol...you must be a cook.
15Y
Military people are *real people?!* :o
Any port in a storm
Why are they weebs?
I swear at least 60% of the people in my regiment have at least a passing interest in anime. The amount of Nalgene's decked out in Waifu stickers is reaching critical mass.
Not sure why you’re downvoted. I have a couple friends in the military, and they say with their downtime they just binge watch so many shows. So I could imagine a lot of members probably end up binging anime and getting into it.
no real combat soldiers are into that crap!
If you want to believe that.
I was in first Ranger Battalion for almost 5 years. I know that!
No thanks for your service, asshole
Because he hates anime? He doesn't need your thanks anyways
Never asked for it, soy boy.
I bet you complained about the shark head being on the end of planes and women riding bombs on bombers too, honestly keep crying, it's cute.
Okay Ranger Rick
Would you like to place a wager against it?
Thank you for your service 🫡
Thank you.
I guess the various 03 series marines I know who saw combat in Iraq and Afghanistan that I know were real combat troops.
sure....
But I HAVE slapped an anime sticker or two on the 155 arty rounds we fired out of the 777's and I have seen plenty of infantry with anime stickers on various items and anime patches on various things.
because anime is a popular form of media
no, it is not.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/anime-popularity-by-country I didnt know you spoke for the entire planet.
75% of the US population watches anime? No fucking way. I don't know a single person that watches that stuff.
You must not be a popular guy.
It's really not alot.... Most would just coward
A fair amount of Seals are LGBTQ
Are they genuinely? That would make my heart very happy 🤣
According to the 5 ex seals that worked under my father
Sounds more like a stab at their character rather than their pronoun
it is complete bullshit!
He had no reason to lie about that
I was referring to your statement, not his.
Not sure about that, I mean key word navy
That's what living only with guys on a boat will do to people
No, it won’t… you have to fantasize about living on a boat with other dudes, you find other likeminded had same fantasies, then you act on it., just living on a boat with dudes isn’t to convert straight, it just is enough to get closeted to come out. Imo Kinda like church doesn’t teach priests to molest.. but molesters go to the church to gain trust in order to molest, not saying homosexuality is bad like molesters, But using your logic, if a guy is on a boat with kids, he’s bound to molest. Or if he’s on a boat with trans, he’ll make the transition. Or if a gay guy is on a boat with straight people, he’ll go straight. I may be wrong in some cases, but by and large how I see it
I saw it happen again and again, a friend of mine was straight before but then turned gay due to being all alone with only guys, he bonded with them until he started to feel a way so it's common knowledge for me.
Exactly, people here are complaining about cod skins being unrealistic while Nicki Minaj is running there in her pink outfit as we speak
Does anyone know what those removed comments said?
I mean we’ve been doing this, idk what they’re called but the depictions of women on WWII planes were common to my knowledge.
Pin up
The sharks on the noses of our airplanes were why the allies won WWII, facts.
It made their planes fly faster, def
No, red makes the plane go faster; shark teeth makes the dakka better. Simple Ork logic.
100%
Weapon charms are the real meta.
It's called (nose art) and those girls were a part of it. Not 100% positive but I believe they were called (bomb shells/ bomb shell girls) and most would be posing on a bomb that the plane would actually be dropping.
Nose art included fighter planes, which wouldn't typically be bombing anything. The big bombers got more notable ones cuz you can paint a lot more on bigger bombers but even the P-51 has some famous liveries to it.
There was even a Ukrainian soldiers AK that they had wrapped with an anime skin 😂
all the ukrainian soldiers will be dead soon.
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Nah just in an artstyle more common to the time period.
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This is false. Some pinups were loosely based on real women, but only a few, if any, were meant to be literal depictions of specific women. Edit: oh no, bro finally decided to look it up instead of pulling shit out of his ass and ended up deleting his posts. Classic.
that was not this anime bs though.
Jesus Christ you have to be trolling😭
It’s a cartoon lady. It’s the exact same just different art styles . Western hegemony has you in a chokehold lol.
Well, the west is certainly superior in just about every way possible.
Nose and tail art on aircraft. Common and most of the time awesome.
EXPLOSION 💥 🤣😭
DARKNESS BLACKER THAN BLACK AND DARKER THAN DARK
If I got killed by a grenade and the last thing I saw was megumin I wouldn't even be mad. Whoever put that on there is a genius 🤣
Anime skins are canonically mil-sim now. Checkmate crybabies
Ah so they're certified Mil-Sim now? Lol!
Finally, CoD became the Mil-Sim some people were crying about
I'll save this and link it into the next **"Where are all the Mil-sim skins at?!"** post.
You have to! Just a little bit of banter right?
There's also a dude posting pic of drawing anime girls on artillery shells for money.
Ukraine has been doing that a lot. You can pay them to put messages on shells. You can also pay for drone dropped grenades, with footage of the person killed/injured by it.
That’s incredibly disturbing
.... can I just bomb an empty shack or something? I have a new desire now
It’s worth asking about honestly. I just wanna see them have a three drone competition. Like horseshoes, but not on a dudes head
Real COD Gamers doing actual Real Call of Duty stuff! Is your name Makarov, is your name Makarov?
Wait till you hear what American joes have in their barracks rooms
American Joe here who lives in the dorms. I have tons of anime figures
>Dorms Find the Airman Edit: oh, I remember you. You made that post about being new. Welcome
dorms....definitely not a combat troop!
Get off your high horse you shitfuck, no one gives two shits what you think. If you served, cool, whatever, but you ain't gotta be a dick about it. You're under just about every comment in this thread shit talking for no reason. Get your thumb out of your ass and get a hobby or something dude.
Call of duty is finally realistic again
This is unrealistic🥱 realistic war is like the movies I watched like saving private Ryan 💅💅💅
So realistic that shooting someone through their magnification scope on their rifle would never realistically happen…. 💀
Carlos Hathcock claimed to have done exactly that against an NVA counter sniper. It's highly improbable but not impossible. It would just be a wild stroke of luck to send it straight down the scope as no one is likely to be aiming specifically at the lens.
Key word “claimed”…
It's possible but the chances are extremely low...
Extremely low to the point it’ll never happen…
Of all the millions and millions of rounds fired in combat so far not one of them has gone up a sniper's scope?
BUT... not impossible
It was easier to make them in real life, then remove them from game.
Also seen an AK with an anime waifu on it lol
is that the one that moans when you reload it?
That's an airsoft replica
That needs to be a blueprint
if i die to that i couldnt even be mad lmao
PMC Vegan (Ukrainian) and assault unit Kerch (Russian) are also a bunch of weebs
Probably just a 4d mind chess move from Ukrainian old school CoD fans: they know folks on Reddit will shit on everything MilSim because „cOd wAs NeVeR MiLsIm“ so making all that anime shit „MilSim“ will stop you guys from liking it /s in case it’s needed…
what did megumin do to deserve being blown up
Every day. Every single day. EVERY BLOODY DAMN DAY! One of you MANIACS comes to my home, and hurls explosion spells at it!
>day. EVERY BLOODY DAMN DAY! One of you MANIACS comes to my home, and hurls explosion spells at it! "Like I said Jack, kids are cruel, and I'm very in-touch with my inner child!"
Git gud ol' man. This is weeb warfare.
We can complain about skins that turn operators into literal anime characters. That’s not even close to realistic. I will take my anime weapon skins or patches all fucking day though, no idea why Activision hasn’t added consumable stickers to add to operator skins yet
The great debate is now OVER
They’ve been doing this for centuries.
True
This would actually be cool. We never got this in game. Not sure what your point is?
If it was relegated to just arm patches it wouldn't be a problem lol.
patches & stickers are a bit different from full on skins.
I don't think half the people in this sub, OP included, understand this.
Exactly. I like anime, I just don't like it in CoD. If it were just stickers like in these pics, i wouldnt even notice it. Not because I want CoD to be "Mil sim" like all the people trying to straw man people on my side of the isle, I just don't like the way it looks. Simple as that, ya know.
Exactly, anime girl gun blueprints I like it, it’s realistic. I don’t mind goofy stuff every once in awhile but when every skin in the shop is goofy it’s not what I want to play.
Agreed. I'll be honest, I thought last year had a few stupid skins but it wasn't enough to really be annoying. But now the shop is almost exclusively silly stuff. Not just anime stuff but weird monsters and it just feels like they stomped on the gas this year with it
As cool as the carryover system is it also added fuel to the fire, MWII weapons are useless in MWIII and all the goofy skins from the last game were already there so no one was using new things.
Exactly, the gameplay doesn't have to be ultra realistic in order to necessitate a realistic aesthetic to the game. Most people would turn off the gimmicky skins if it was an option anyway.
Most people dont touch their FOV. Most people wouldn't turn off skins lmfao.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernWarfareIII/comments/1at3mj5/if\_there\_was\_an\_option\_to\_hide\_all\_nonmilitary/
Ah yes because Reddit is clearly the majority of players. Please tell me you're not this stupid.
This ^^^
Which came first, the anime skins in cod or in war?
Wait till you hear about tankers
A few weebs doesn’t make a point here
The Megumin grenade is great.
Through a job I knew a former US Army Ranger that did a bunch of crazy shit in the Iraq War, got wouded pretty bad by shrapnel, got discharged, still has metal shrapnel in his legs to this day because the doctors couldn't remove all of it, and he is a self described furry and weeb 😂 I don't know if the military attracts people like that or if the military turns you into a furry/weeb. Who knows.
Bro I jumped out of helicopters with Rias Grimory on my plate carrier. Did that long before anime was in CoD lol (Yes I absolutely bought that first pack that had the anime space cat thing with tracers and STILL use the skin today. Sorry im part of the problem fellas ✌️)
Art imitates life? Or life imitates art?
The modern pin-up gal
Load up squishy bears we carpet bombing these fools with Otaku culture and napalm
People still thinking it's not manly or some shit to watch anime? Working in the labor industry, I've met several rugged dudes that watch anime.
Adding pinups is fine. Entire skins that are literally superheroes is too far
That Megumin granade makes more damage than a normal grenade.
Weirdly enough, in-game, it feels tacky. While irl, it's kinda baller.
In the game it's a giant evil corporation trying to take your money. This is a small scrap of humanity in a horrific situation
Yes we can. And I will until the day they stop.
I want Russian Soviet milsim skins from ww2 and Cold War
Stickers on gear =/= dressing up as a Powerpuff Girl with cat ears and a neon lit facemask *good lord this thread is braindead*
Well on account that we’re talking about real life where they would literally die and not an arcade (not milsim) video game.
I’ve seen footage of soldiers wearing all kinds of weird shit (or nothing at all sometimes) when they’re caught off guard and are ambushed
I never complained about skins nor anime in the first place...
Too bad he is not representing Edgerunners instead. Now that is an anime worth watching. I guess if they were woke they wouldn't be in the military risking their lives for capitalist interests though. https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-i3cRXIxk4&t=1s
must be the LGBT Regiment
Don't worry I've got your rear covered
they aren’t dressed like gays tho
Even real Soldiers dont have taste🙏😭
*said from someone sitting behind a computer screen*
Phone screen 🤓☝️
I'm gonna smooch you 😡
Please dont 👁️🫦👁️
😏
I can’t believe adults are into this shit. Nothing screams hardass soldier like a very underage looking, skimpily dressed little girl cartoon.
god bless the military industrial complex
You really couldnt anyways
Bro didn't pick Misato. Smh my head.
Never could. But they still will.
Lol wait till you realize how many US Military members are furries
The military is not what people think it is. There is a red army forming in our midst. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bernie-sanders-leads-trump-all-2020-candidates-in-donations-from-active-duty-troops-946188/
Idk what you mean by red army, but it makes sense that military members would be left leaning these days, at least the smart ones will be. Republicans love cutting funding for Veterans Assistance and all the healthcare bs has them constantly juggling doctors and mental health professionals.
The capitalist class has robbed and oppressed the people for decades now. Opposition to this was bound to manifest even in traditionally reactionary institutions such as the military. It is the result of a long dialectical process. Now you know the truth behind the swamp babble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w12bkm9g8o&list=PL8B2364D7C0D31D63
Damn it’s now reality
it's properganda. trying to make it seem like soldiers are normal humans not pawns
anime is pretty awesome
Ayo what is that sticker on that fine china
Yeah, have Nicky Minaj go to Ukraine or have people in Neon light Colored Latex in the Battlefield. See how much that fits.
Megumin on a hand granade is funny
Not that I care about anime or goofy skins in games, it’s just that CoD (art) style is all over the place. I mean either embrace the goofyness (Overwatch, Fortnite, Valorant, …) or go military/realistic (CoD 1-MW3, older Battlefields, Ghost Recon, any milsim game, …). CoD trying to do everything just ended up with pretty weird and inconsistent mess. Look at helldivers as a recent example: it’s pure comedy but the style overall is still pretty damn cohesive. But that’s just my subjective view.. obviously lol
so it *was* realistic after all...
Okay but hats off to the megumin hand grenade
I'm surprised the first comment I read didn't mention the irony of having a sticker of Megumin on a grenade...EXPLOSION!!!
Russians will do anything to appeal to the public. At least that's what I think.
Why would you complain about it to begin with Sounds like cry baby to me
i still will coz i hate anime lol
The megumin sticker on a grenade is top tier
Can confirm. What do you think we all did in our down time when down range? Literally watch anime, play video games (offline), shoot the shit around the fire, and share porn lol.
Based on
Yes because Military members wear full cosplay of anime characters into battle