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{{quote|''It's not just a job, it's an indenture.''
|[[Tagline]] for a showing of ''[[Area 88]]'' at the MIT Anime club.}}
A manga by Kaoru Shintani that ran from 1979-1986, '''''Area 88''''' is the story of Shin Kazama, a brilliant Japanese pilot tricked into enlisting in the Foreign Legion mercenary air force of the generally [[Qurac|Middle Eastern or North African]] kingdom of Aslan, sometime in the early 80s or late 70s. Aslan is in the middle of a civil war between two brothers contending for the throne, and Shin and the other pilots at the titular airbase are at the front lines of the war.
The story starts with the arrival of a Japanese photojournalist (Goh "Rocky" Mutsugi in the manga and OVA; Makoto Shinjo in the TV series) at the isolated base. He has been pursuing rumours of a Japanese mercenary pilot and finds him along with some great photographs. Shin's story is told as he remembers how he came to be trapped in this hell on earth.
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