{"id":5595,"date":"2009-12-31T16:15:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2009-12-31T19:34:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T10:34:34","slug":"oguris-darling-wa-gaikokujin-becomes-a-movie-with-parody-cartoon-about-the-darling-dream-being-sold-by-all-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"Oguri’s “Darling wa Gaikokujin” becomes a movie, with parody cartoon about the “Darling Dream” being sold by all this"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0I want to offer my congratulations to Oguri Saori, very successful author of the “Darling wa Gaikokujin” series (translated as “My Darling is a Foreigner”, but officially subtitled “My Darling is Ambidextrous”), for the news just out this month that the first book in the series will be made into a live-action movie (starring Inoue Mao and Jonathan Share as Saori and Tonii respectively). \u00a0The empire built upon the dream being sold to Japanese women for marrying a white foreigner keeps on gathering strength. \u00a0See the movie trailer here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More interesting to me is the mutation of the Tonii character. \u00a0It’s apparently based upon Tony Laszlo, one-time unicyclist, “journalist”, “activist” and self-proclaimed leader of unregistered NGO “Issho Kikaku”<\/a> (a long-defunct group — you can’t even find their once-copious archives on the Wayback Machine because they have been blocked by the site owner<\/a> —\u00a0see what’s left of it at Issho.org<\/a>), and now happy multimillionaire thanks to his partnership with and characterization by his very talented wife.<\/p>\n

Although portrayed in the movie by the very handsome and disarming Jonathan as a “grass-eating man”, Tonii in real life is not as he is cartooned. \u00a0Laszlo is a big fan of putting his funds into\u00a0threatening lawsuits<\/a>, for one thing. \u00a0And of deleting internet archives<\/a>. \u00a0And more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It just so happens I found a cartoon parodying this phenomenon of the contrasts. \u00a0As the last post on Debito.org for this decade, enjoy.<\/p>\n

Arudou Debito in Sapporo, wishing everyone a happy new year. \u00a0For Oguri Saori, it looks to be a fine one indeed, so, again, congratulations.<\/p>\n

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I want to offer my congratulations to Oguri Saori, very successful author of the “Darling wa Gaikokujin” series (translated as “My Darling is a Foreigner”, but officially subtitled “My Darling is Ambidextrous”), for the news just out this month that the first book in the series will be made into a live-action movie (starring Inoue Mao and Jonathan Share as Saori and Tonii respectively). The empire built upon the dream being sold to Japanese women for marrying a white foreigner keeps on gathering strength.<\/p>\n

Although portrayed in the movie by the very handsome and disarming Jonathan as a “grass-eating man”, Tonii in real life is not as he is cartooned. Laszlo is a big fan of putting his funds into threatening lawsuits, for one thing. And of deleting internet archives. And more. It just so happens I found a cartoon parodying this phenomenon of the contrasts. As the last post on Debito.org for this decade, enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26,25,15,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-isshoorgtony-laszlo","category-lawsuits","category-media","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}