The Japanese Military Is Getting Offensively Cute

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Whether it's the mini-skirted girls with magical powers with World War II plane engines strapped to their legs fighting aliens in 2010's Strike Witches or the teenagers driving tanks as an after-school sport in 2012's Girl und Panzer, the underlying theme is the same. Military hardware is unthreatening, fun, and above all cute!

The 2015 release of the Kantai Collection series brings cuteness and war together in a fashion that's impressively revisionist. The show, widely known as KanColle, features "ship-girls" who are the reincarnations of Japanese warships sunk in World War II. This time, however, the Imperial Japanese Navy is allowed to win. The show's season finale (spoiler alert) concluded with the protagonists winning the Battle of Midway, the decisive naval battle that historically swung the tide of the war in the Pacific toward the Americans.
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I have to say that the 3D version of the pilot-san is much nicer than the 2D though.
 
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Better than our lot who can barely keep things working.

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Providing democracy in the form of an attack helicopter with anime decals. One simply doesn't get better than this.
 
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grantza said:
if you think that is "Wut" worthy, check out the 2 lower links in his signature - youtube
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Why do you hate the Japanese people so much? In fact Japanese culture is popular and is emulated in places such as Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea and PRC. Why do you hate East Asians so much?
 
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konfab said:
Better than our lot who can barely keep things working.

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Providing democracy in the form of an attack helicopter with anime decals. One simply doesn't get better than this.
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In this instance to heck with the decals, the pilot is gorgeous. :) Of course the moe phenomenon is not new - these types of mascots are mainstream for everything from Windows, to the cops to car makers. What's quite new is the historical revisionism. In KanColle the Americans are the "abysmal" fleet made up of monsters (from the deep), the Japanese Imperial Navy is made up of cute girls with the souls of WW II battleships. Add the recent constitutional changes in that country re the use of the armed forces overseas and export of weaponry and you have changes in attitude which are reflected from the political class right down to pop culture.
 
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Space_Chief said:
Why do you hate the Japanese people so much? In fact Japanese culture is popular and is emulated in places such as Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea and PRC. Why do you hate East Asians so much?
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I like the Asians, only certain ideologies that I disagree with, mostly the dictator/communist types, but overall I have no problem with the people and their cultures.
 
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You can paint an Apache pink full of Hello Kitty and it would still terrify.
 
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Space_Chief said:
Why do you hate the Japanese people so much? In fact Japanese culture is popular and is emulated in places such as Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea and PRC. Why do you hate East Asians so much?
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really ???
try harder to prevent this
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but why dont you back up your sweeping statement with just one post, just one single post inferring that i hate the japanese, or even mildly dislike them - or any other nation you included in your accusation - just one single solitary post.

then when you fail, you can retract your false allegation and apologise
 
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grantza said:
really ???
try harder to prevent this
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but why dont you back up your sweeping statement with just one post, just one single post inferring that i hate the japanese, or even mildly dislike them - or any other nation you included in your accusation - just one single solitary post.

then when you fail, you can retract your false allegation and apologise
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You did say this:

"if you think that is "Wut" worthy, check out the 2 lower links in his signature - youtube"

You have a pop song being performed by a mainstream pop idol and in-store / theme music for an electronics/gaming store. Why would you say
"wut" to these perfectly normal yet fun things? Do you find these things so weird? Because East Asian people like that sort of thing.

There is nothing "wut" about Koharu Kusumi or Sofmap.
 
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Space_Chief said:
You did say this:

"if you think that is "Wut" worthy, check out the 2 lower links in his signature - youtube"

You have a pop song being performed by a mainstream pop idol and in-store / theme music for an electronics/gaming store. Why would you say
"wut" to these perfectly normal yet fun things? Do you find these things so weird? Because East Asian people like that sort of thing.

There is nothing "wut" about Koharu Kusumi or Sofmap.
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i'm going to hazzard a guess your school reports said
"can do better"
"needs to try harder"

so yea, lets wait for that post where i claim to hate the japanese or any other nation in your list
 
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grantza said:
i'm going to hazzard a guess your school reports said
"can do better"
"needs to try harder"

so yea, lets wait for that post where i claim to hate the japanese or any other nation in your list
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Nope. So explain to me why you consider those things "wut" worthy. They're mainstream popular culture over there.
 
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Space_Chief said:
You did say this:

"if you think that is "Wut" worthy, check out the 2 lower links in his signature - youtube"

You have a pop song being performed by a mainstream pop idol and in-store / theme music for an electronics/gaming store. Why would you say
"wut" to these perfectly normal yet fun things? Do you find these things so weird? Because East Asian people like that sort of thing.

There is nothing "wut" about Koharu Kusumi or Sofmap.
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Wut
 
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