Talk:Submarine Princess/@comment-71.178.248.74-20151213214047/@comment-26091666-20151217043610

Special:Contributions/189.149.88.255 189.149.88.255 wrote: I just love how everything should be suspiciously "American centered", how egocentric people should be to think that way?

No, we don't celebrate our independence day worldwide on July 4th. No, USA isn't the only country in the world with better technology development. No, the United States didn't win the war alone, in fact they came to the last moment while the rest of the Allies did all the hard work. Why the insistence of bringing America on a Japanese game where most units belong to the Axis? The answer is pure and sick ego.

... and makes you wonder why DMM never opens Kantai Collection or KanColle up to the public purely for reasons like these: "An editorial within the South Korean Hankook Ilbo on 4 November 2013 accuses that the strong popularity of the game is due to a conservative political shift amongst young people in Japan following long-term economic recession and political instability, and that the game majestifies the wartime Imperial Japanese Navy.[ 175 ] Addressing the Hankook Ilbo allegation, Akky Akimoto writing for The Japan Times disagrees with the idea that the game's design deliberately facilitates any political shift, and argues that the 1970s anime series Space Battleship Yamato was subject to similar criticisms despite having little effect on domestic politics.[ 176 ]" "Another opinion piece from the Asahi Shimbun suggests that the game's unforgiving mechanics, such as ships permanently sinking, some of them may even trace for their grandparents' military services record, so helps players understand the brutality of war given the desperate situations, that they can gain a more positive understanding of history or even oppose conflict itself. [ 177 ]   On the other hand, Jonathan Gad of Vice claims that the Kantai Collection television anime series is historically revisionist, criticising the show's depiction of the Japanese protagonists being victorious over the Battle of Midway.  [ 178 ]  "

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