Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-26114359-20150515085515

Hyper Shinchan wrote: Ashkandy wrote: A lot of japanese, even very well known artists with a lot of popular work under their belt resent America, even one that is probably the "most popular" (that i won't name here, you can look it up yourself) with his work exported the most abroad is known to have (or at least had) such sentiments (with older of his sketchs as proof). Who? I could name a few anime directors who are openly anti-American, Miyazaki in top of the list, but I would have a hard time with "artists".

Miyazaki is not necessarily anti-American, he's only anti-war because America was such a "warmonger" that time (see Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc), though it's quite ironic since he loves warbirds. Not that an old man's opinion matter that much.

Anyway it's been perceived that at least they don't like topics of their defeat in WWII, mainly because of honor reasons or something like that. But then again losers will act like losers, they bitch, whine, and moan and offer excuses. Protip: don't pick a fight then go back crying to your mom if biggest guy punches you too hard. That's what the Japanese are acting like anyway.

It's a clusterfuck anyway, they're crazy people. You've got one side being hardcore nationalists, you've got another anti-war but is nationalist anyway, you've got leftists but supports militarization of Japan anyway, etc etc. It's like they don't have a balance; it's either they lean heavily on the right wing, or on the left wing, or can't seem to decide who to support. Just take a look at the movie Eternal Zero. You've got one side praising it, the other seeing it as right wing bullshit propaganda. The way I see it, it's a bunch of bullshit you'll see why if you watched it.

As for the OP's topic itself, no way in hell they'll put American ships. Of course it's a glorified game of the IJN why do you think we have maps that follows historical operations with a pattern of what-ifs if the IJN actually beat the USN on said map? I wouldn't be surprised if we get a Pearl Habor-esque operaiton in the next future unless they're smart enough not to pull it off because it will surely trigger a shitstorm. You could argue all day long about some of the enemies not being American like CLT abyssals, but the Japanese have a penchant of not explicitly stating that an enemy is not an American of WWII origin whenever they are represented in media. You could tell they are Americans, but is not explicitly stated or given that it is them but you know it's them. An example would be removing insignias that would give them away as American, and IIRC, they used this on that Yamato movie and to a lesser extent, Eternal Zero. It's that same technique they're using in this game. They're American, only renamed so it wouldn't be conspicuous. And no they're not sunken ships of X or Y, because if that was the case, then what are Ta-class? They're fast BBs with American style equipment and just for reference, no American fast BBs were sunk in the war. You could also say they're grudges but then again, why would a Japanese ship have a grudge or nightmare of in the form of a CLT, which they fielded on their side? See the many discrepancies? It's just all a ruse so as not to let Western eyes think the enemies are in fact the Allies represented.