Peepo Choo

Peepo Choo is a satirical manga by Felipe Smith. It was one of the first manga series ever to be written and drawn by a mangaka from outside East Asia, but first published in Japanese by a Japanese publisher. It was first published in serial form in the magazine Morning Two, and then in three collected volumes.

The series is a rude and ultraviolent satire on US-Japanese mutual cultural misunderstanding. African-American otaku Milton is a crazed fan of the anime and manga series Peepo Choo, and is wildly overjoyed when he wins a trip to Japan in a raffle at his local comic shop, believing that the country is nerd heaven. His boss at the comic shop, Jody, despises Milton but hopes that Milton's command of Japanese will help him get laid by hot Japanese girls. What neither of them know is that the whole trip is an excuse for their boss Gill, who has a secret life as international hitman and unstoppable killing machine "Fate", to do a hit.

In Japan the characters are mirrored by Reiko, a cynical teenage gravure idol fed up with her work, Reiko's otaku girl friend Miki, Morimoto "Rockstar", a psychotic gangster obsessed with his own idea of African-American gangsta culture and Fate's target, and Aniki, Morimoto's boss who hired Fate to deniably kill him because of his Ax Crazy-ness.

Not unexpectedly, things get messy.


 * Alpha Bitch: Miki's classmates are particularly vicious ones
 * Arms Dealer: Miguel
 * Author Filibuster / Character Filibuster: Reiko's explanations of what Japan is really like stray into this
 * Ax Crazy: Morimoto and Gill
 * Black and Nerdy
 * Black Comedy Rape: Fate, especially the volume 2/3 cliffhanger.
 * Buxom Is Better
 * Casanova Wannabe: Jody
 * Chase Scene
 * Cold-Blooded Torture
 * Contemptible Cover: volume 1 of the collected editions
 * Cosplay Otaku Girl: Reiko, secretly
 * Crazy Homeless People: the down-and-out who is
 * Creepy Crossdresser: Gill, after Milton persuades him to stop worrying what other people think of him
 * Culture Clash
 * Darkest Hour
 * Dead Baby Comedy
 * Depraved Bisexual: Fate, and boy is he.
 * Dropped a Bridget On Him: Jody's encounter with a transsexual Beauty Judy fan.
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita: both Reiko and Miki dress like this when they visit Akihabara
 * Faking the Dead:
 * Fish Out of Water
 * From Nobody to Nightmare: Morimoto, as revealed in the flashbacks
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
 * Gorn: any time Fate does his thing
 * Gross-Out Show
 * Impossible Hourglass Figure: Reiko
 * Jerkass: Jody, for most of the first volume
 * The Juggernaut: Fate
 * Knife Nut: Fate
 * Latex Space Suit: what Reiko really wants to wear
 * Lightning Bruiser: Fate
 * Mad Artist: Ringo Plum
 * Malevolent Masked Men: Fate
 * Mistaken for Badass: Jody, by Morimoto
 * Mistaken for Gay: Jody turns out to look like Camp Gay comedian "Beauty Judy". He's not happy.
 * Mob War
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Fate
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Gill develops a bad case of this for Morimoto
 * Pervert Revenge Mode: Reiko when she loses it
 * Pretty Fly For A Japanese Guy: Morimoto
 * Psycho for Hire: Fate
 * Scary Black Man: Miguel
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: Gill a lot, but Milton gets to do it in a pitch-black room after his Despair Event Horizon moment.
 * Sequel Hook / The Stinger:
 * Show Within a Show: Anime Peepo Choo, and American Gang Banger drama Brick Side.
 * So Beautiful It's a Curse: Reiko
 * Sociopathic Soldier: Miguel (and Gill in the past)
 * Tattooed Crook
 * Translation Train Wreck:
 * True Art Is Incomprehensible:  
 * Tsundere: Reiko
 * What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?:  
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist
 * Yakuza