Website io9.com has an interesting write up of military themed manga/moe characters (which they tag as NSFW, but it isn't really that bad) in Japan over the last few years....some have been brought up on FG previously, such as prince pickles in Iraq. But what caught my eye was Maritan, a Moe style character representing the US Marine Corps that has hadseveral books/CDs published where she teaches Marine Corps Drill Instructor style English.
Maritan's purpose is to teach Japanese fans how to swear like a Marine, through adorably testosterone-packed gag comics. "It's fucking English time!" reads the cover text on one of the several Maritan books. Within, you can learn phrases like "Your puny little ass is mine!" and "To show our appreciation for so much power, Marines keep heaven packed with fresh souls!", translated by actual Marine Corps members stationed in Japan.
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Maritan's origin story is a parody of so-called mahô shojo "magical girl" shows (like Sailor Moon), in which the heroine usually visits Earth from some fairy realm on a mission of good. In Maritan, the title character comes from the magical realm of Paris Island and introduces herself by crashing a fighter jet into the house of the "Japanese" character. Soon we meet Army-kun (a "dogface" private with dog ears), Navy-san and Jiei-tan, a diligent girl with glasses who represents the Japanese Self-Defense Force
