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gajahmada@awful.systems 4 days agoMight not be quite what you want
What do you mean my guy this is exactly what I want lol. My example is just what I recently found, I’m not opposed to much more realistic/historical adaptation or old one at that.
it wasn’t negative enough on Japan’s behaviour during the war for some non-Japanese audiences
What do you mean by this? Not enough light on Japanese’s atrocities ?
Argento Soma
Also, never heard of this one, I’ll check both out. Thank you !
nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
Might have been that (as far as I can recall, the characters were never in the correct place at the correct time to see most of the evilest stuff), might have been just that the original mangaka was trying for a more nuanced view of the war and so didn’t depict the higher-level Japanese officers as monsters. To be honest, I don’t remember exactly—most of that discussion took place around the time the series first came out.
gajahmada@awful.systems 1 day ago
Oh, might be an interesting watch. My country is actually one of the Japanese colonies, and yeah I have heard one or two genuine hates from older folks about the imperial atrocities, but I think my generation is already far removed from the feeling, so I don’t know how I would react (probably not much lol).
Still weird knowing the US dropping the nuke is what directly “allowed” our independence.