Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-187.152.208.76-20150417174145

Morgane of the Mists wrote:

A literal two seconds googling "foreign ships" in Japanese gives us little gems like these. Look down to the discussion. While much of it is insightful and neutral, look at how in a thread of only nearly a hundred posts people have expressed concerns for allied ships, ranging from "how are they going to get along with everyone else" to flatly discussing the implications behind adding them.

Much of the discussion is polite and generally constructive. Yes, some people want them, but a lot of people still don't. Look at books such as this one appearing on the horizon. KanColle's official collaboration with historical texts exist, but people were unsatisfied with the angle of the narrative. That alone should tell you volumes about its proposed target audience. People have been talking about this book before its inception. Look at the official Cranes III light novel, where the whole point is to pull shenanigans with Midway because change fate.

Japanese nationalism doesn't necessarily equate to anti-America sentiment. Nominally speaking, it is the same as any other form of nationalism - including our own. But the definition of historical revisionism is cherry picking bits that support your narrative and your version of the tale, and the amount of cherry picking that goes into KanColle, were this applied to any other historically oriented based game, would set off alarms anywhere else except for Japan.

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This game has revisionist devs (some would say denialist, but I'm trying to be reasonable here), revisionist artists, and revisionist fans. You're telling me that all these guys who wants to change the "lies" told by the rest of the world don't harbor at least some negative sentiments towards America? x)

Mind you, this isn't all of KanColle, but it's certainly a part of KanColle, and to ignore it is doing the fandom (including you) a disservice.

So you cherry pick bits here and there to make it look like a revisionist game and ignore all the neutral and favorable comments so your argument fits? It works both ways too. Even if that were true, what about all the American history that has been rewritted by themselves in thousands of media so they all look like the good guys and porpusely ommit things like the Japanese Interment Camps in U.S.A. or how Americans got last to claim victory when the rest of the Allies (and Soviets) did most of the job from the beginning?

Oh right, "revising history" should be something exclusive to the Allies because we all know everything they say was true (riiight!). Who dares to make America look bad even when they don't? We should play the martir role and create threads like this one.