1 Great trailer.

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I just watched it. I hadn't before. Yeah, it's not bad.

But if the war is rabbits versus camels, then why "cat" in the title?

Oh, and camels as the bad guys isn't very subtle. (Gee, I wonder who they represent?)

3 The "Cat Shit One" is the name of the unit. In the manga, they fought cats in Vietnam, so it was somehow related. When adapting, creators "updated" the show to modern times, and the unit now belongs to a private company, but the title remained.

4 At the end of the first volume of the comic was the author's earlier work, "Dog Shit One" - so named because of the sobriquet often applied to the FNG Lt. just out of West Point. It was a straightforward Vietnam story done in realistic manner, without resort to bunnies. It's easy to say "making them bunnies made it good", but like most good war stories, the key was getting a good group of characters together; adding Botaski, cowardly racist idiot that he is, did a lot to make CS1 good stuff. They're "heroes" only in that they're more or less good men confronted with men who, well, aren't, and it tells.

5 The wiki page for Apocalypse Meow (CS1 doesn't appear to have an English listing) lists that the various animals represent nationalities. Cats were Vietnamese, Pigs are French (*tee hee*), Rabbits are Americans, etc..

Camels in Turbans as Iranians though... The PC police are going to pop a gasket.

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And the only proper response to their outrage (in my book) is:  "Cry me a river."

At which point I'll condemn them for man-made alterations to the ecosystem.  (rimshot!)

7 Ubu, remember Hetalia.

8 Hetalia question: For those that saw it, did it live up to its potential for dark, sick humor based on millenia of history, or was it just revisionist crud?

9 This post was not about Hetalia. Thread closed due to topic drift.