As a Finn, I found this manga absolute blast to read. The ridiculousness of the whole setting is a laugh inducing riot. It's almost sacrilegious in it's depiction of Simo Häyhä and the winter and continuation war. The story is a loose adaptation (to put it mildly) of a real history. It tells the story of ace sniper Simo Häyhä who fights along Finnish forces in the warfront against the red menace. Joining Simo we see a cavalcade of characters each equally loose and wholly fictitious Manga archetypes.
Most of the appeal comes from seeing how the real history events are adapted to this story, and
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