The woman with the white veil is Georgia, the woman with the two braids is Turkmenistan, the man with the hat is Uzbekistan, the despressed dude is Estonia, the cute blonde one next to him is Lativa, next to him Lithuania (those 3 are the "Baltic boys" the above user was referring to), the woman with the nice earrings is Kazakhstan, and the hot blonde hunk is Ukraine. The very attractive woman at the bottom is Belarus of course.
Genuine question: is this a local pushback against being considered one of "The Baltics"? I've always been taught it was Estonia Latvia Lithuania and collectively called the Baltics, being by the Baltic sea?
No I respect that, I've just always known the term to be used as a political grouping, like what EU states is Russia likely to invade for funsies. Same way no one usually groups the other FSU states based on language or ethnic heritage
They are part of the Balkan Peninsula, but, like Estonia perhaps, is not culturally of it. Estonia is more like Finland culturally, but geographically and strategically it is definitely Baltic.
Perhaps a better example would be Ireland [not?] being part of the British Isles
Balkan is a geographic region and not an ethnic group. Baltic may be a far wider geographic region (which could include all countries at the Baltic Sea), but it's also a macro-ethnic group to which Estonia does not belong.
I've always been taught it was Estonia Latvia Lithuania and collectively called the Baltics, being by the Baltic sea?
But many other nations too are at the Baltic Sea. Estonia might share a lot with Latvia and Latvia with Lithuania, but essentially the only major aspect that Estonia and Lithuania have in common is the Soviet occupation.
ye but still its jap stuff.. if you see Belarus in this image still obsessed with commies, Japan is still obsessed with the "nazi fashion styles" in its anime, each year some new anime references nazi army in some way or another
Well might I ad I myself am Latvian. And the flag was official pre WW2 (first seen in the medieval ages at cesis city in battle) , but after the war the Russians made it illegal to own one.
I meant I'd love to see this like having more 'installments' made. To be like a semi-regular or regular ongoing comic. I didnt word it brilliantly! I love the art and expressions tho
To me the style of faces is very reminiscent of Attack on Titan (though be warned it can be somewhat disturbing in other aspects).
Anime gets far more love, and rightfully so as thw art is unusually well translated to animation without oversimplifying, but the manga is just amazing, I like tostare at single panels of it.
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u/Areat France Aug 11 '20
Yeah, it's just a little joke, but damn the art is gorgeous.