Ok, so Japanese man Haruo made this elaborate illustrations according to American man Brad’s granpa’s request. What make me laughing is Granpa wasn’t very satisfied with this cards and he even burned all the cards when they arrived in the states. These cards are not a kind of things accidentally came into birth because of mis-communucation or mistranslation. They must be products of intentional act, maybe malicious intention. So, What’s the problem with Haruo!?!? What the hell does “Check this box for jewish seasoning.” mean (see here)??? It has nothing to do with Christmas, right? And why this massage is on the front side of gift cards just below address? Omg this is made in 1955? Maybe he was too ahead of his time, and Brad's granpa was more conservative than Haruo expected?
Or was this a Haruo's own way to revenge for being shot in the face?
Well, the incident during the war might have a certain amount of influence the way he describes American in illustration but the quality of the card implies he gave everything he had into the creation, which means this is the result when he tried to create what he believed to be nice, unique and trendy!! (until Gozilla was first out in 1954, just one year before this, Kaiju style of cartoons or films were not that popular among kids compared to say Astro boy or Comic Shonen. So I guess this was really ahead of time at that time)
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