My Deer Friend Nokotan (Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan) has become a very popular anime even before its premiere, thanks to its fun and catchy opening theme. That is why the image of the deer waifu has been everywhere on the internet and this time it reached a quite unexpected, but terrible place, since the internet went viral with the image of a Russian soldier showing an artifact used in their conflict with Ukraine where the image of the protagonist of My Deer Friend Nokotan could be seen.
Russian soldier shares images of an artifact with the face of My Deer Friend Nokotan waifu used in its conflict with Ukraine
It is not news that for some time Ukraine and Russia have been in conflict over war issues, this news is well known since the beginning of this war. However, some soldiers who are participants in this have taken advantage of social networks to share various issues about it and one of them recently made use of his Twitter/X account to upload some pictures of a weapon used in the war, with the peculiarity that has the face of the popular waifu of My Deer Friend Nokotan.
He also shared the process of how he drew the “deer waifu” and, in the description of this publication, he told his followers that if they wanted a video of when the gun was fired, they should send him a private message. Of course, seeing a serious artifact with My Deer Friend Nokotan’s waifu caused quite a stir on social networks and users made a lot of comments about it.
Many people showed their annoyance at this fact by expressing things like “After all, anime fans must have some kind of disability. I don’t understand how people can turn their favorite characters into weapons that can end people’s lives.” “Dentsu is the worst at using war to generate uproar.”. As you may notice, users like these were not in favor of the acts performed by the soldier, because this was not the first time he shared this kind of images, besides this weapon with the image of My Deer Friend Nokotan’s waifu, he has quite a few others with various characters.
On the other hand, there were also many people who took this as a joke and said things like this was excellent publicity, or that since My Deer Friend Nokotan is a comedy anime, surely even if this weapon got to you, nothing would happen to you because the next day you would be back to normal. Something like what usually happens to the deer waifu in the anime, where she is able to do some extreme acts without getting really hurt.
There were in social networks, also a lot of people who asked this soldier to make a drawing, but now of the Russian waifu of Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go or, they simply made references to this waifu, since, they related it to the fact that her country of origin is precisely Russia, one of the countries that has been involved in this conflict and also country of origin of the soldier who dedicates his social network account to make this kind of content.
These were the two sides of the discussion that was generated on this platform as a result of the publications made by this user on social networks, as you could see, some are against and very upset because such a serious matter is taken as a joke and use characters like the waifu of My Deer Friend Nokotan in artifacts that can harm other people, while other people took it in a very calm and even as a joke. What do you think?
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