Keroro vs. Polar Bear

Well, that chalkware is weird. Fortunately, I did something normal. I bought a cheap VCD set of season 1 of Keroro Gunso - AKA Sgt. Frog. It's really quite entertaining. As wikipedia explains: "Both the manga and the anime focus on the steadily deteriorating ordeal of the Keroro Platoon, a group of two-foot-tall frog-like invaders, who try, but fail miserably to conquer the world and sell useless merchandise to the citizens of Japan." Here is Sgt. Frog, getting punched by a polar bear, due to the fact that he has been tricked into thinking the hosts of "A Touching Interview" have come to film an episode on earth.

Comments

[Matt]

The syntax above confuses me. Do the frog invaders try, but fail, in both conquering the world _and_ in selling worth merchandise to the citizens of Japan? The first is hard, of course, so no shame in failing to conquer the world. But if they also tried but failed to sell useless merchandise to the citizens of Japan that really would so a great level of incompitence. Or, did they fail to conquer the world and so now sell useless merchandise to the citizens of japan? If that were the case they'd be much like the ancestors of the inventors of Hello Kitty and the like and so not too shameful. Other meanings also seem possible. Which is the right one?

[jholbo]

That's what I love about the syntax.

[ajay]

Or, did they fail to conquer the world and so now sell useless merchandise to the citizens of japan?

Actually, in that case they'd be a lot like the citizens of Japan, post-1945.