“Japanese officer's WWII odyssey: Mongolian life, Red Army conscription, German POW, Waffen-SS Tiger tanker.”
Happy Tiger
ハッピータイガー
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Japanese officer's WWII odyssey: Mongolian life, Red Army conscription, German POW, Waffen-SS Tiger tanker.
The story of a young, happy-go-lucky Japanese officer over the course of World War II. In 1940, he goes to Mongolia to help a nomadic family who rescued him during the Soviet-Japanese War of 1939. He decides to live with his Mongolian friends, but he is accidentally conscripted into the Red Army. At the Battle of Moscow in 1941 he becomes a prisoner of war of the Germans, but eventually is allowed to join the Waffen-SS, in which he becomes a Tiger tank crewman. And that's just the start of his adventures...
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A Manga Publication
- Format 1 vol ch × vol
- Published Sep 1993 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M29306 catalog