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My Deer Friend Nokotan's image is used in a terrible way

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My deer friend Nokotan (Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan) has become quite a popular anime even before its premiere, thanks to its fun and catchy opening theme. That's why the image of the deer "waifu" is everywhere on the internet and this time it has reached a rather unexpected but at the same time terrible place, as the image of a Russian soldier has gone viral on the internet showing an artifact used in its conflict with Ukraine where the image of the protagonist of My Deer Friend Nokotan could be seen.

A Russian soldier shares images of an artifact with the face of waifu My Deer Friend Nokotan used in its conflict with Ukraine

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It is not news that Ukraine and Russia have been in conflict for some time due to war issues; this news has been well known since the beginning of this war; However, some military personnel participating have taken advantage of social media to share various questions about the subject and one of them recently used his account. Twitter/X upload some photos of a weapon used in war, with the peculiarity that the face of the popular waifu of My deer friend Nokotan.

Likewise, he shared the process of drawing the “waifu deer” and, in the description of this publication, he indicated to 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 the waifu My deer friend Nokotancaused a huge stir on social media and users made a large number of comments on the subject.

Many people expressed their annoyance with this fact, saying 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 create unrest.” As you can see, users like these were not in favor of the soldier’s actions, as it was not the first time he shared this type of image, in addition to this weapon with the image of the waifu of My deer friend NokotanThere are some others with several characters.

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On the other hand, there were also many people who took this as a joke and said things like that this was excellent publicity, or that since it was My deer friend Nokotana comedy anime, surely even if this weapon reached you nothing would happen to you because the next day you would return to normal. Something similar to what usually happens with the deer waifu in anime, where she manages to do some extreme acts without actually getting hurt.

There were also a large number of people on social media asking this soldier to make a drawing, but now of the Russian waifu Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go or they simply made references to this waifu, as they related her to the fact that her country of origin is precisely Russia, one of the countries that was involved in this conflict and also the country of origin of the soldier who dedicates his social media account to make this type of content.

These were the two sides of the discussion that was generated on this platform from the publications made by this user on social networks, as you could see, some are against it and very upset that such a serious subject is taken as a joke and characters used as the waifu of My deer friend Nokotan in artifacts that can harm other people, while other people took it very calmly and even as a joke. What do you think?

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