Just found out the Army is setting up recruitment booths at anime conventions--which is wild in & of itself--but they also got a Misato from Neon Genesis Evangelion cosplayer to lure in recruits The US Army is "Get in the fucking robot, Shinji"-ing weebs - ThreadSky

jakepaulsartre.bsky.social • 97 days ago

Just found out the Army is setting up recruitment booths at anime conventions--which is wild in & of itself--but they also got a Misato from Neon Genesis Evangelion cosplayer to lure in recruits

The US Army is "Get in the fucking robot, Shinji"-ing weebs

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zaidazadkiel.bsky.social•97 days ago

the real question is, was the misato cosplaya any good ?

jakepaulsartre.bsky.social•97 days ago

Eh it was alright

dwoboyle.bsky.social•97 days ago

Teens seeing Misato: "oh it's that old lady from that boomer show."

haredurer.bsky.social•97 days ago

The weeb battalion is going to commit the weirdest atrocities.

fishmech.bsky.social•97 days ago

nah the Misato cosplayer wasn't hired, she just saw the opportunity to get a really funny set of in-character photos and took it. and when the recruiters tried to get her to stay by the booth she said no thanks and left

ellekiwami.bsky.social•97 days ago

"that was a grown up kiss, we'll do the rest when you get back from your tour in Iraq"

opalescenteel.art•97 days ago

They've been preying on gamers and weebs for a long time, it's gross

jakepaulsartre.bsky.social•97 days ago

I knew about the gamers, which made a lot of sense considering how intensely popular shit like Call of Duty was for years

But the anime fan contingent is like...really? You sure?

opalescenteel.art•97 days ago

There's a lot of them who love Japanese imperialism and see nothing wrong with stuff like Attack on Titan

jakepaulsartre.bsky.social•97 days ago

Lol I was literally just thinking "Actually I bet there's a lot of Attack on Titan cryptofash weebs this would work on"

opalescenteel.art•97 days ago

Unfortunately!!

andythecorsair.bsky.social•97 days ago

The US Army is about to have a terrible personal hygiene problem.

synfennex.bsky.social•97 days ago

What do you mean... About to? I was never in a barracks that didn't reek of axe and bo.

andythecorsair.bsky.social•97 days ago

I believe it. Based on my experience in nerd-fests, they might miss the smell of Axe.

joelegyud.com•97 days ago

They approached me at Tekko in 2018. “Hey, have you thought about serving?”
“Yes, but I’m nearly 40, and I’m not allowed to serve because I was assigned female at birth.”
We talked for 10 mins about how scared they were for the future and looking forward to it being overturned someday.
WHELP.

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