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1. Except for the colour (and crying eyes) it looks pretty much similar.

2. How does it make it not ridicolous?

3&5. No, I was not expecting them to make it stereotype free. Some mentions of food in hourly lines were a given, even the fairy by itself (arguable "penguin" aside) was kind of expectable, I did not expect the "country of pasta" thing, though. It's too reductive and arguably insulting, the fact that you mentioned that even some Japanese mentioned it speaks by itself. Using stereotypes in a supposedly friendly way doesn't make them less offensive for those on the receiving end, I'm especially concerned that they will get out of their way and focus only on those stereotypes, like in Hetalia.

6&7: I didn't read that tweet, but if you say so I'll trust you, I have no reason to think differently. I skipped it before, but I don't really agree with you on 7, they turned the Kongo class with 8-in belt and patchwork horizontal protection into excellent (actually, overpowered) ships, if they have no ill intention even Cesare could become a good kanmusu. Even turning Cesare into her Russian incarnation is nothing that I would really consider offensive, it's just what historically happened.

8. I think you're forgetting that the Pugliese TDS is heavily criticised by mainstream "literature", even though some of those critics are based on events where the system was not involved. The Japanese wiki mentions it in the introduction, I assume that the Japanese are familiar with that narrative. Personally I think that she will have low armour and high firepower. While this is only my own guess I honestly have a hard time imagining how the negative accuracy of those guns could be balanced.