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[–] HetareKing@piefed.social 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Karoitan (?) and Movoiri (?) here are apparently 2.12 and 2.18 meters tall, which is huge even by modern standards, so if those measurements are accurate, the height difference between them and their captors might not be that much of an embellishment as it looks.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do we have independent confirmation on those measurements?

[–] HetareKing@piefed.social 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I looked some things up. This drawing depicts the Golovnin Incident and the person in front is Vasily Golovnin. Not sure how they got "Karoitan" from that, but anyway.
I can't find anything about his height, but I imagine if he really was 2.18 meters tall, it would be written down everywhere, so it's probably exaggerated.

EDIT: I misread, it's not Karoitan, it's Kahitan, meaning they thought his name was "captain".

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

That makes more sense. Thanks.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For real? I am tiny compared to them. XD

[–] HetareKing@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

Well, that's what the text says, anyway. It describes "Kahiitan" Golovinn as 7 shaku (30.3cm) and 2 sun (1/10 shaku) tall, and whatshisface behind him 7 shaku tall. But it's most likely an exaggeration.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why don't the Russians, the larger of the two, simply eat the Japanese?

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I immediately thought this was some Star Trek parody. Those Russian uniforms are very similar. ☺️

Unfortunately we already know one of them is going to die.

[–] papercut@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hard to tell which ones the captive 😅

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It's just a kinky scroll.

[–] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of some kind of Japanese propaganda book I found washed up on a beach, the illustration style was tge same but with more gore! I should really try to dig it out.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

This is quality mildly interesting

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

This explains the first boss in Sekiro