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EP. REVIEW: GATE

The very definition of a Just War and how the author uses it to justify the actions of the JSDF and all that is my proof. I'm taking the author's history as a right-wing Japanese nationalist and the fact that he's basically written such in his story to make that claim. I have spoken with people who have read the full (or light) novels of the series that are currently out, and they've pretty much confirmed this is how the story plays out.

Also, when I said that there's nothing anyone can do to stop the JSDF in the Special Area doing what they want, I'm specifically referring to using either military or political force to do so. The JSDF effortlessly maneuvers around any obstacle that is erected against them, and does whatever it pleases against the Empire, with the latter having absolutely no recourse but to take whatever the JSDF is dishing out.

Please, don't make me laugh. If this series was extremely realistic, the US Japan Mutual Security Treaty would've been invoked the moment Japan was attacked by the Empire, there'd be US troops helping to defend Tokyo, US naval fighters from the Seventh Fleet at Yokosuka Naval Base outside Tokyo would've been on station to provide CAS during the defense, etc etc. The US would've sent troops alongside the Japanese in securing the Gate, and Japan would be unable to refuse due to the terms of said Mutual Defense Treaty and diplomatic pressure exerted if they attempted to.

Japan claiming the entirety of the Special Region as Japanese territory would've had China and South Korea throwing a shitfit at the UN

BassKuroi wrote:

This fascist anime arrive just in time to see how Japanese government wipe its ass with article 9. Just watching to see how far they will go with this imperialistic panphlet with a moe sugar coat.

I would have called this a gross overreaction... but then I watched episode 8. Just abandoned all subtlety, didn't we?

One of the clauses of said treaty require Japan and the US to report any such military action they undertake under the treaty to the UN Security Council, so there'd be a report to the UN and all the details on the "special area" would be coming out sooner rather than later.

The Japanese public also has no stomach for foreign adventurism, which sending the SDF across the Gate would be considered, Japanese political tomfoolery be damned, despite the large number of civilian casualties they seem to have taken in the Ginza Incident.

The JSDF also has neither the logistical support or the operational doctrine to conduct an expedition to foreign lands, which again the "Special Area" constitutes.

To your point of the Japanese not knowing what's on the other side of the Gate, why then did they declare everything on the other side Japanese territory then?

Japan could not rightfully claim sovereignty over land/people/structures that were never in its territory to begin with (and are still not inside its territory by the way).

Am I really the only one who found the woman's demands of asking about the casualties was okay?

DuskyPredator wrote:

Am I really the only one who found the woman's demands of asking about the casualties was okay?

Oh, there was nothing wrong with her pushing for an investigation of that, as civilians nominally under the protection of the JSDF did die. The problem was the hostile, accusatory attitude she took when inquiring about it, as if she were on a witch hunt. (And we got to see enough of her thoughts to know that she was, indeed, out to nail the JSDF to the wall.) I suspect that Rory wouldn't have gone off on her had she been asking the questions in a more neutral fashion. Rory may not understand everything about modern Japan, but she's been around the block plenty enough to know what the woman was getting at, as politicians getting upset by what they see as irresponsible actions of a military is hardly a modern-world concept.

The biggest problem I have with her is that she's supposed to be a caricature of a real person, and she seems to get attacked in all sorts of right-wing Japanese media for her anti-JSDF stance whenever an author needs to pull out a obstructionist strawman politician that's against military action.

M. Northstar wrote:

I would have called this a gross overreaction... but then I watched episode 8. Just abandoned all subtlety, didn't we?

No, it is a gross over reaction. A country greedily trying to exploit the resources of another country doesn't make it facist.

I was hoping something not so over-the-top as the lack of JSDF casualties, the valkyrie's ride (that was really dumb) and the parody of the leftist Diet member lady.

Oh, you don't even need to go that far. The first repeating rifles were such a massive advantage over muzzle-loaded rifles that that they could allow a small number of soldiers to hold off even an immensely bigger force. The only reason their introduction didn't allow the Union Army to utterly dominate the late stages of the American Civil War is because tactics had not advanced enough to fully take advantage of their dramatically increased rate of fire.

If you read correctly your own quote's quote, I said the anime is fascist, and is an mild overreaction because the series is silly and poorly written.

By the way, I was thinking that there's no way the MC was under commando and special forces programs and at the same time being so laid-back. I had the dubious pleasure of meeting two of them IRL and they're of course badass, very agressive, ideologically programmed, but also very sad and broken people.

This fascist anime arrive just in time to see how Japanese government wipe its ass with article 9. Just watching to see how far they will go with this imperialistic panphlet with a moe sugar coat.