Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-26336961-20150512001339

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). Can you really blame them for it ? None of his work reflect that, and you would never know if you didn't look for it.

It's not a japanese thing, people resent the other camp all over the world.

IF, and that's a big IF, the kc devs did, dislike America, it's their own right, can you really, objectively and honestly tell me that even if you could prove 100% that they have this kind of sentiment the game in the state it is now is even remotely close to being "anti-american" or some sort of pro ijn propaganda ?

There was very recently a lot of different incidents in korea regarding either artists, or media showing that a large amount of koreans still resent japan specialy anything that represent the empire of japan, there is a lot of censorship regarding this, if you know a bit of history would you blame them ?

Do note that resentment =/= racism.

Disliking something is a legitimate enough reason to not include it in your work, i'm not saying this is the case but just that it is a thing.

This isn't a history simulation, it just takes inspiration in historical events.

Even if they are allies today, that doesn't change a thing, besides even if the seting is suposed to be modern days, it takes inspiration in WWII, no matter what i'd feel weird seeing say Bismarck fight alongside Hood or a Yamato class fight alonside any Iowa class.

Also nothing is known about the rest of the world in Kancolle, for all we know america might simply have been wiped off the map by a meteor decades ago or whatever story you want to come up with, there is nothing forcing them to even be in the "story" at all.

Or maybe they simply do not wish to send one of their ships to Japan ? Maybe they think not only their tech is superior so they don't need a tech exchange with japan but that they also have no obligation (or simply cannot spare any ship) to provide help when they need to defend their own land ?

You can come up with endless reasonable or fantastical reason of why there isn't any American ship in the Japanese fleet, going straight to "omg it's revisionist and anti-american" is just creating complaints out of nothing.

Also, you all seem to agree that the setting is somewhere close to modern days, or future and only inspired of past events, meaning that for example, the midway campaign in Kancolle, is a different event then the real midway that happened in the past, if it happened differently and at a different time, involving different ships, and sides how is that revisionist ? Or were there abyssal ships in midway WWII ?

OMG open your eyes people, put on the tin foil hats and see the truth, the devs are abyssals and are revising history, introducing themselves in historical events !

There that should be plenty of material for unreasonable arguments and conspiracy theories.

Ps: I'm not racist but as an anecdote, the most conflict i ever had to deal with in my life (as a pretty chill person) has been my many brawls with obnoxious american soldiers in Roppongi on friday nights and they were pretty known for it a few years back, so i might have a bit of resentment myself although i do my best to not generalise on the action of a smaller group.