Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160122165904/@comment-220.255.3.207-20160201070214

Vcharng wrote: 220.255.3.208 wrote: Vcharng wrote: Kaiserhorn wrote: I'd like to know what are japanese players think about this. I have quoted the only negative reply from the Japanese wikiwiki page on the gun thread, basicly they are generally looking forward to the introduction of Iowa-class. As in general terms, they might be far more open-minded to Allied ships than we are.

Those who strongly express their disgust, on the other hand, are often accused of being "pre-war rightist" in the Japanese community. (note: in Japan, pre- and post-war rightists are different things, as the prior is more often accused of being reluctant of reflecting Japan's behavior during and before WWII) The same sentiment seems prevalent among the Chinese fanbase too, or at least that's what I see from the posts in the gamers.com.tw forum (aka 巴哈). Though to be fair, one would normally expect the Japanese to have a more rigorous response than everyone else. Taiwan has some of the most extreme Imperial Japanese sympathizers, so it's no surprise seeing so.

FYI, 巴哈 in particular further owns a community of particularly pan-Japanese (that is, pre-war Japanese) view.

If you want some further introduction about the Taiwanese nostalgia toward Japanese rule, you can click on my ID and go to my message wall, there's an article about it. Eh, no, I meant the response I've seen so far has been quite positive about implementing the Allied ships. This comment from this thread probably sums the general sentiment up quite nicely: "好艦娘是不分國界的w" (for folks who don't read Chinese, essentially it means a good kanmusu would be popular regardless of her nationality).

Note that the only negative post in that thread came from me, and I'm not even Taiwanese to begin with XD

The thread starter does raise may be a legit concern: if Tanaka does introduce the Allies with heavyweights like the Iowas, how would this affect game balance? (point #2)

And while so far we've been talking about what the Japanese (and pro-Japanese people) might think of the Allied girls joining the fleet. Let's think the other way round: how would folks from the Allies' take Rule 34 applications to their kanmusu? Especially those ero-doujin featuring them in compromising situations. Enjoy, gasp (and still enjoy, just discreetly), or blow up, accusing doujin artists of ultra-nationalist sentiments because they do to an Allied shipgirl what they've done to everyone else? =3