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tetris11 20 hours ago

NHK (english): https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/

> The Japanese government set up a task force at the crisis management center in the prime minister's office at 11:16 p.m. on Monday in response to the earthquake.

A thousand Naruto shadow-clones just got deployed. I'm not being cute, these guys are heroes and role-models to all.

phantasmish 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’m imagining the folks from Shin Godzilla.

I assume that movie is for Japanese civil servants like the show Silicon Valley is for programmers. Stuff like the repeated meeting-room changes for no apparent reason reads as too specific and weird to be made-up.

stackghost 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What's a Naruto shadow clone? Google hits are just about a kids show.

tetris11 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is a kid's show. The main characters' outfit is modelled after Japan's iconic recovery workers (stark orange and blue), a compliment of their heroics echoed in fiction.

This character can clone himself hundreds times to help others, with art often mirroring the thousands of recovery workers seen in actual event footage.

My comment intended to link back the image of childhood heroes as corporeal selfless adults

opan 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a technique to temporarily make one or more duplicates of your body which can move independently and have your memories/abilities. A strong enough hit will dispel them, or the user can do it manually, after which the memories of what the clones did return to the user.

The usage here by GP might just be because everyone looks/is-dressed the same and is working in unison, and since they're Japanese, anime comes to mind. In the show, Naruto often uses shadow clones to pull off more complex techniques, throwing himself, having them take turns punching/kicking, or in the case of the rasengan he divides the work of controlling the ball of chakra since he struggled to do it successfully by himself.

asdff 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That is the reference

embedding-shape 17 hours ago | parent [-]

The Wikipedia redirect is apparently dead (https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Shadow_clone&redirect=no) and the main page for Naruto doesn't show anything about shadow clones.

Care to explain the reference? Do people dress up like a character from the TV show and help out people or what's going on?

syncsynchalt 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The reference is that the anime character "Naruto"[0] wears the same colors and roughly the same uniform as a Japanese recovery worker[1].

During disaster work, you see swarms of recovery workers and the joke/reference being made is that this looks like Naruto doing a "shadow clone" technique.

[0] https://i.redd.it/psseu93j62la1.jpg [1] https://sendai-resilience.jp/media/images/efforts/case31_ima...

embedding-shape 6 minutes ago | parent [-]

It took a while, but finally someone managed to get us confused westerners an answer! Thank you :)

foota 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's an ability from the show: https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_Clone_Technique.

dang 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

(Thanks for the link - we've since merged the threads to a submission of that one. I've included the other major links that people have been posting in the toptext.)