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Hey, Answerman! [2009-11-20]

Erm, I'm a bit bothered by the question and answer both on the topic of Germany. In my opinion, Germany doesn't get nearly enough attention in anime, especially when compared to France. Spells are often in German and sometimes European settings look like Germany, but for the most part it's France France France, and me being someone who is completely in love with Germany, this makes me sad inside.

And the whole "touchy issue because of WWII" really, REALLY doesn't fly with me, guys. So because Japan was allied with Germany in WWII and the Nazis are infamous for having done horrible things, Japan shouldn't ever say good things about Germany? What? What's passed has passed, and Germany has bent over backwards to apologize for the Nazis. Why should they continue to be punished? Why should German people have to be ashamed of their country even today because they made a mistake (a huge one, but still) in a time of desperation? Move on, people. The war is over.

It think their comedy is horrible, though, so for humor I stick to Family Guy.

By the way, whoever mentioned it above me.... You're entitled to your opinion, but American Dad is awful. It's just Family Guy with Republicans. And Cleveland Show is Family Guy with black people. Family Guy was funny until I saw enough episodes to realize that there's really nothing there. The jokes are all entirely unrelated to the story of each episode, and after a while, it stops being funny.

This may be true, but I still find it ridiculous. Especially with the whole WWI thing. Germany did nothing wrong in WWI. Their allies were attacked, so they did their duty of defending them. That should NOT be something that causes lingering resentment. But a lot of people are stupid and just like to hate.

@whoever made the comment about Japan making anime and manga but what has Germany done; you are an idiot. Go away. Okay, maybe not , but. Seriously? Germany has done plenty since then to make themselves a very respectable and amiable country. ALL Japan has "done for us" since then was make anime and manga. They haven't properly apologized, and many of them are still racist as ever.

There were definite intentions and plans at high levels in the U.S. of literally wiping Japan clean of inhabitants.

Currently co-produce (with our CBC-bound tax dollars) 'The Tudors', a show about the folks what invaded and conquered this country ... and you're not going to hear a whisper of complaint about that. "Ohh, it glorifies those awful British!"

pparker wrote:

There were definite intentions and plans at high levels in the U.S. of literally wiping Japan clean of inhabitants.

That's an interesting theory. Funny though how it never actually happened despite winning the war.

Not in cartoons generally, though, I'm mainly referring to Pixar, which is in my opinion, better than any Japanese animated release

It's not a theory, it's historical fact.

Nonetheless, we didn't do it because we weren't generally insane. Only some in the State Dept and military had true genocidal motivations (Halsey, IIRC, was one of them). Actually, from a practical standpoint, the fact we won is why it wasn't done. It was assumed that we would have to kill every last Japanese citizen because Japanese propaganda, Iwo Jima and the kamikaze convinced most of our leadership that the Japanese would die to the last child before surrendering their homeland (again, the reasoning behind dropping the Bomb).

You're immensely misstating the relationship between Canada and Britain. I mean, technically the Queen is still the head of state here.

I'd appreciate a source and a lot more specificity on this. Who exactly intended this? How many people?

You don't see a massive difference there?

All is fair in love, and war. It's always the winners what get to write history afterword's.

In any case, of course there is a massive difference between what President Roosevelt intended and what Hitler intended. I never indicated otherwise. My only intention was to point out that, as others have done, in details WW II wasn't a simple case of white and black hats.

Geez, it's an anime forum. I really wasn't intending to get into a debate on the history of WW II.

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All is fair in love, and war. It's always the winners what get to write history afterword's.

There... that's the point.

But how did I misstate it? Nowhere did I deny that the Queen is our head of state. On the contrary, I focused specifically on the colonization of this land into the British Commonwealth. We're agreeing more than disagreeing here.

Racial attitudes in the U.S. were very different at that time. The "white man's burden" still ruled racial theory. Anthropology and, for the most part, social science, agreed with theories and "evidence" supporting the genetic inferiority of the non-white races (they were "infants" in evolutionary terms). The Japanese were characterized as subhuman savages who had initiated an entirely unprovoked and unjustified war against the U.S. (not entirely true). It's not a stretch to imagine that a faction existed in the U.S. having few if any qualms about exterminating the Japanese.