- Jack "Russer" Russell
Jack "Russer" Russell (
1753 -1809 ). A little known traveller, Jack Russell spent twenty-five years documenting theOrient . His journals are consideredpop culture inJapan and he is considered to be a "Western Icon". The "Russer" likeness is used as aparody most often in Japanese works where the author is portraying a duality of humor and strength in a lead character.
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