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Why do people think this is a propaganda show? They could probably replace Japan with any other country and it would get the same complaint.
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>>140093577
Not with commie
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Because Japanese writers are not allowed to be proud of their country or else gaijins will be furious.
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>>140093577
Probably because IRL the JSDF have 0 real combat experience and are pretty much protected by the US if anything big happened because they don't have many troops or funding
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>>140093577
Because the writer already replace America, switch it with japs.
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>>140093577
It isn't, people just like to whine about anything they can, and propaganda is the easiest target for them to seek in this case
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The China is bad meme is getting pretty stale, but it's a shit show regardless.
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>>140093577
it's pretty hilarious watching Japan being the champion of international laws of war
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>>140093577
>They could probably replace Japan with any other country and it would get the same complaint.
If it was switched with the USA people will praise the shit out of this show
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Because they only show the positives that japan has done in history and ignore the mistakes and terrible things it has done. That is called Propaganda.
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>>140095305
Yeah, it would basically be "AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!" every single thread. Not that I would mind or anything.
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>>140095305
Because the US carpet bombing poor people is cool as fuck and realistic

When Japan does it that takes away the suspension of disbelief because Japan is a nation full of sissy twinkbois now
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>>140093834
This. The problem lies in that the JSDF is literally glorified cops, and have no real military power
>>140094219
Well it doesn't help when Tencent the biggest company in Japan is literally more jewish than Jews, more crooked than Wall Street, and I think is ACTUALLY trying to take over the world.
Also public dog eating contests.
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>>140095451
*in China
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>>140095437
t.jamal jackson
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>>140095570
t. Vladamir Vovukshek
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>>140095359
But what did Japan ever do wrong
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>>140095637
They created the American Weeaboo.
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>>140095637
Tons of things.
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>>140095637
Anime
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Frankly, the show would be better if it was all about promoting the JSDF instead of D Tier waifubait like the elf bitch.
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>>140095637
Elfen Lied
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>>140095736
It really would've been. The whole Tuka thing was retarded, and Lelei's thing was also completely uninteresting.
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>>140095637
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>>140095637
Pearl Harbor of course! It's the biggest war crime in history!
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>>140095826
motherfucker what is it with Japns and knowing about obscure european history that the natives dont even know about
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The author was in the JSDF and today's JSDF is modeled after american military because of WW2
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>>140096016
Its like an american soldier writing a book called "Fucking AMERICA
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>Gate Thread
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>>140093684
You mean Americans think this is a propaganda show.
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>>140093577
That's exactly how you know it's a propaganda show, dumbass. If that weren't the case, then it would clearly mean the critics are just being retarded nationalists.
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>>140093577
Cause only merica can do this kind of shit.
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>>140097118
It'd be pretty funny if Gate was set in North Korea
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>>140093577
America as monopoly of the nationalist propaganda.
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>>140093577
Because most of Japan is opposed to re-militarisation
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>>140095359
Shitty third world country soldiers kill and rape civilians

>Muh humans rights
>Soldiers pay for their crimes

American soldiers kill and rape civilians

>Soldiers get slap in the wrist
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>>140095905
>Japanese russo/sino war general
>obscure european history
What?
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>>140093577
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>>140097701
What do Europeans even learn in history?
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>>140097715
>implying you need direct combat experience
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>>140097679
>>140097679
Yeah I remember that.

Two american soldiers ran over and killed 2 grade school girls, which prompted PSY to make an anti-american song which he has to apologize for when Gangnam Style became popular
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>>140093577
>Why do people think this is a propaganda show?

Gate had problems from strident posters. Well, the chinese government is known for hiring hordes of chinese who know foreign languages. Their job is to go post defensively on major foreign sites to derail or stop or even attack posts or ad hominem certain posters to get them to shut up. The chinese posters in /a/ displayed that pattern as they had no real interest in Gate as a legitimate cultural topic. Both Gate fans and the chinese posters can talk about the same JSDF topic, but one side seems "sterile" and that made their posts suspicious.

China's Officially Hired Forum Commentators (tens of thousands of them).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

To be a 50center, the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China now holds regular training sessions, where participants are required to pass an exam after which they are issued a job certification.

Water Army: Besides the 50cent Army, there are professional writers also recruited and they are paid more by the Chinese Government as the Internet Water Army.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Water_Army
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>>140098189
Is this legit or bait
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>>140093577
I expected
>Nipon fakku yea

Instead it had too many cute girls. Pretty funny though.
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>>140098344
legit, some chinks and butthurt worst koreans were caught in previous Gate threads shitposting about Gate being a nationalist propaganda. some were caught too in le reddit forums
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>>140098344
Both. China does these things. Probably not to Gate. Gate is nationalistic and jingotastic as fuck. Some of its fans don't like admitting that.
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because duhhhhhh.......
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>>140093577
Because communists fucking hate the idea of a nation
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>>140093577
I kinda hated when the special forces were ripped apart by the japanese without counter
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>>140093577
Every nation except America would be accused of being nationalist if they made something like Gate.

I'd like to see what would happen if Germany did that.
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>>140098439
>>140098441
>literally paid to shitpost
I guess China can be nice sometimes too.
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>>140098541
Why? What's wrong with a nation?
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>>140098612
the mercenaries were actually lower rung out of army guys and equipped with civilian-grade equipment bought in akihabara so US will have plausible deniability if the operation fails, thats why they dont even have NV goggles

"we dont know these guys, these guys probably just some gun nuts who bought their equipment in akihabara and playing spec ops"
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>>140098771
China wants to appear to be the only good nation in asia and no one else, so they do every thing even paying people to shitpost in the internet
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>>140098784
They were black ops agents. Not special forces.
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>>140099019
semantics.

the point is they were poorly equipped to deal a properly armed and supported saf forces and out gunned to since the LN mentions outnumber the three forces by 3 to 1
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>>140093577

Yes, if they replaced Japan with any other country, yet still had much the same narrative, it likely would.

I mean, seriously, that's propaganda for you.

Connecticut Yankee, Conrad Starguard, the Lost Regiment, 1632, Destroyermen, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, Lest Darkness Fall, TwoFeathers from America, it's hard not to get the idea that authors are pushing their narrative to a certain extent.

Some more than others.

>>140098668

Well, there was that episode of Star Trek...
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The only problem with Gate is the waifu faggotry instead of armed forces faggotry.
I can jack off to bullshit magical girl waifus any day, but what I really want is episode after episode of barbarians being blown away with modern weaponry.
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>>140093577
Just butthurt murrikans
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>>140098668
>What if Germany did that
/Pol/ would raid the board and post non-stop about how great Germany is
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>>140098668
>Every nation except America
ESPECIALLY America

When is this meme going to end?
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>>140099364
I mean, it would be nationalist. But it would also be far more believable since America has the best equipped/supplied and (arguably) most experienced armed force in the world at the present time.
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>>140099793
Nice meme
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>>140099793
Too bad America doesn't know how to use it for shit
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>>140099793
How is that matter when the enemy is just some dudes with pointy sticks?
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>>140099138
It's not semantics, though.

Mercenarie implies that they are active paramilitary. Those guys weren't. They were basically all the CIA Far East Branch station operatives (undercover spies, technicians, etc) with weapons training that they could get on short notice.

They had exactly one night to do their snatch, which means no intel, no overt support and they were walking into an ambush set by JGSDF special forces who had home ground advantage and extensive support. The CIA people would all have been killed if Motoi was not forced to call them off.
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>>140100575
>spies are cowards who can't fight for shit guys, army ftw
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>>140100735
Man get the hell outta here, Sakuma.
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>>140093577
Murricans get triggered when another country's army shows any form of competence, even if it's just in fiction.
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>>140093577
Because you can't have a show with military without USA being the center of the attetion it seems.
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season 3 when?
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>>140097844
yes
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>>140098189
Holy shit. An actual internet army. Imagine being paid to shit post and flame.

I'm in.


Also why are we discussing such a gay show like gate.
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>>140100735
Spies aren't meant to fight. They'd be very bad spies if they had to fight. They're still trained with weapons, but it's not their job.
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>>140095451
Tencent developed the civilian scoring "game," right?
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This is the result of having a culture that won't go full PC over its war crimes.
Japan has apologised for their past crimes, but unlike, say, Germany, they haven't thrown themselves at the feet of the Chinese.

Just imagine any entertainment company in Germany attempting to glorify their (present) army and portray anyone else as bad. Liberals would go apeshit.
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>>140102128
Hasn't the current government tried to pretend the Rape of Nanking didn't happen?

I'm fine with nations not going full cuck like Germany, but that shit was horrific.
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>>140102189
Well, Abe is part of Nippon Kaigi.
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>>140098189

Not even /pol/ can make this shit up
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>>140102281
Russia does it as well. There's also an American company that does it and is supporting Ted Cruz. Look up Applied Memetics sometime.
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>>140093577
>>140093873
>>140095359
Reminder that in America people would look down on you if you don't clap like a retard to welcome the troops coming back from war.
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>>140093577
fuck them anon, I enjoy seeing Men with spears getting blown up hard too
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>>140102281
I think its a Socialist government thing. In my country, our government has its own agencies to monitor social media and post on them a lot.
People in here have dubbed it the "troll centre".
I think Venezuela's government does it as well.
In Argentina, you have militant socialists like members of La Campora who do this shit as well.

I've heard this is also very common in Russia, under Putin.
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>>140102128
We'd just think it's ridiculous and either ignore it or take it as a comedy.
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>>140102189

There is an excerpt from Japanese school textbooks that censors the whole event down to "there was an incident".
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>>140102189
Unit 731 was better than Nanking desu.

Trying to avoid a tragedy such as genocide/mass murder that your country performed in anyway is pretty sad desu.
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>>140102640
>an incident

"Two Japanese soldiers have climbed over the garden wall and are about to break into our house. When I appear they give the excuse that they saw two Chinese soldiers climb over the wall. When I show them my party badge, they return the same way. In one of the houses in the narrow street behind my garden wall, a woman was raped, and then wounded in the neck with a bayonet. I managed to get an ambulance so we can take her to Kulou Hospital ... Last night up to 1,000 women and girls are said to have been raped, about 100 girls at Ginling College. . . alone. You hear nothing but rape. If husbands or brothers intervene, they're shot. What you hear and see on all sides is the brutality and bestiality of the Japanese soldiers" -John Rabe, 12/7/1937
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>>140095359
Shit happens. The chinks and the gooks need to just get over it. The only unforgivable thing that they did was Pearl Harbor.
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>>140102857

And that from a fanatical Nazi.
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So this is getting a 3rrd and 4th season right? I heard it was getting them

I need more gate damnit. I cant wait over nine thousand years for the manga
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>>140103002
Read the novels
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>>140102443
I feel truly blessed to live in a country like Canada where our teenagers spout our government's taglines without being paid.
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>>140103047

Are they trnaslated? I cant read moonrunes nigga
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>>140102857
>Nazi human rights activist

What is next? Saudi Arabia defending woman's rights?
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>>140103231
Always remember who your countrymen elected
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>>140103358
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>>140093577
Just enjoy the show man.

Rory a qt. Lelei too. Tuka, good enough.

Seeing those medieval folk call our modern weapons shit like "Iron Elephant" is quite.
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>>140103343
You'd be surprised. The Germans weren't all fanatic Hitlerists.
The Germans in ww1 were the ones who documented the Armenian genocide, too. They even sent messages to turkey asking them to knock it off because it's making the allied forces look bad.
Nazis didn't see chinese as being subhuman so much because they didn't think about them. It wasn't part of party doctrine so you could think what you wanted about them.
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>>140102640
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Novel fags, how much more material is left as of now not animated? Spoil my ass, i dont care, the novels will take to long to be tled anyways.
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>>140093577
>>140103436
>>140103047

Ok fine it looks interesting where do I start the manga, the show or the novels?
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>>140103583
Usually at the beginning of them.
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>>140103583
watch the anime, ignore the light novel and manga for now. The anime is literally the furthest youll get into the story since the manga and novel are being tled at a snails pace
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>>140103002
>So this is getting a 3rrd and 4th season right? I heard it was getting them
I'm curious where you heard this. Gate was originally planned as a two cour show and that was it. I think it averaged like 5k a volume, not really good at all.
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>>140095437
You should read the Salvation War books. There's two and essentially heaven has been closed for the past 1,000 years and God forsakes all of mankind and gives us to Satan. Satan invades via a portal in the middle east I think and fights like they did in the middle ages. We summarily proceed to wipe out the invasion force with our advanced weapons, carpet bombing, missiles, nerve gas, tanks, etc. Then all of mankind unites to invade Hell and kick ass. Second book mankind invades heaven.
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>>140103695

I recall a thread where some one posted a poster about a third and 4th cour, and this was while the second cour was airing

God damnit why is it novels getting adapted now. I cant even decide to catch up with the source material anymore because I cant into runes. Why live
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>>140093577
>>140093577
>They could probably replace Japan with any other country and it would get the same complaint.

so how is it not a "propaganda show" then dumbass. your argument is weak as fuck.
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>>140103583
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>>140103668

Also I heard some people complaining about the differences in character designs for Anime, LN and Manga. Like how Kuribayashi isn't an oppai loli and Rory has a longer skirt. Don't have the comparison, though.

For now, just go with the anime.
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>>140103497
Is still hypocrisy though they did terrible things to their enemies but they dont like when others do the same.

>But is not all Germans

Not all Japanese are mass murders either

>But they brainwash their citizens

See
>>140102392
>>140098143
>>140097679

Is the same shit everywhere. Sure the Japanese and Germans did terrible things but the allied forces when rape party on the German woman, Saudi Arabia talks about humans rights
in the UN while beheading their own people. In the end what determinates if you are a good or bad guy it depends of how much power you have.
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You guys want more gate, but american? Read the salvation war

bear in mind it was supposed to be a trilogy but due to assmad theists part 3 never

Yes, you guessed it, it sgate except instead of cute grils and faggot knights fighting with glorious nippon, its america taking war to hell and heaven
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So much false equivalency in this thread.

Yes, everyone who isn't a jingoistic retard knows that the Allied powers committed war crimes during WWII. While the worst by far (rape of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of German women by the Soviets on the Eastern Front) were because of the Soviets, there was definitely some reprehensible shit done by Americans as well.

The difference is that the war crimes committed by Americans were isolated incidents rather than systematic occurrences and that they were extralegal actions. By contrast, if you look at Japan, a number of the most serious war crimes originated in orders handed down from the leadership.

Unit 731? They were acting with official sanction.

The Three Alls (Burn All, Loot All, Kill All) policy? It was enacted by the commanding general of the China theater.

Comfort women? Again, the result of an official policy of the Japanese military.

The Nanking massacre is actually the one incident that happened without the official backing of the Japanese military, even though it is the most iconic of Japan's war crimes.

TLDR version: Japanese war crimes were the consequence of official policies by the Japanese military. American war crimes were the result of rogue retards acting contrary to the official policies of the American military. In light of this, equating them is fucking stupid.
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>>140105278
The Allies' war crimes are also mentioned in history books. Hell, in middle school my class spent several days debating Fat Man and Little Boy. They aren't just mentioned as "An incident occured."
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>>140105278
Yea every one knows that rape committed by is less armful to the victims and if you get killed by an american you get a free pass to Jesusland
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Damn this show, it is basically Japanese version of CoD, but instead of Americans making everyone else suck their dicks with explosion in the background, it is the fucking Jap. If you have seen the fucking ending of the second season, you probably understand why this show is a piece of fucking propaganda.
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>>140105278
>Ok we might kill and rape but the other guys are worst

Whatever makes you feel better anon
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>>140105792
More like Japan trying to make their dick look huge when the JSDF is impotent and they're protected by the US.
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Sugawara is such a lucky bastard, he gets to enjoy Sherry's young puffy vulva.
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>>140105861

Is funny how you guys get so butthurt over this show. Everyone knows that is not realistic but instead of just laugh and brush it off you actually get mad.
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>>140105278
Alied generals gave some fucked up orders too though. Even without neuclear weapons Allied bombing campaigns could be would have been considered war crimes had they lost the war, and they knew it. Most of the bombing contributed little to the war effort and only existed as petty revenge and psychological warfare. It's estimated they could have achieved the same effect with 10% as many bombs had they limited their targets to key infrastructure, but the people in charge just wanted to watch shit burn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II
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>>140106021
Who said I'm mad? I just think it's silly that a glorified police for is having itself portrayed like this.
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>>140093577

>Why do people think this is a propaganda show?

That has to be bait. If not. It's so obvious it's not even funny.

- Nobody seems to dislike the JSDF for mowing down tens of thousands of people. The enemies basically think it's normal, the others don't care.
- The world really consists only of sheep (innocents), wolves (evil killers), and sheepdogs (good killers), if I may quote American Sniper. "No greys, nothing to argue about, just good and evil."
- On the evil side, no women or children are to be expected.
- Bringing an immortal creature, whose purpose in life is to kill people, to Japan is not worth discussing as long as its trail of beheaded people looks like it's made of wrongdoers.
- Every country trying to intervene in Japan's plans is stupid and overly aggressive
- The JSDF can not only shoot down American, Russian, and Chinese teams with no own casualties, they also don't have to care about repercussions, because those nations are so evil, they couldn't argue about the incident in public.
- Negotiation and forcing enemies to surrender is overrated. In the digital era, nobody cares if you kill uncounted numbers whose equipment seems to come from the classical era. Why stop them with some fireworks and a loudspeaker if you can blow everything up? It's not like anti-war demonstrations exist.
-Japanese soldiers rarely die.
- Collateral damage doesn't exist. Not even if you let your attack helis fire explosives inside of a city.
- Nobody ever discusses these things. It's nothing that people generally care about.

>They could probably replace Japan with any other country and it would get the same complaint.

Of course it would, and it sure do. But it usually happens in non-english spaces, so that's why you don't see it. Hollywood and Michael Bay and it tendencies to show an American flag every 5 minutes of his films are a great example of this.
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>>140102189
Yeah, Japan won't acknowledge it.
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>>140095451
>no real military power

What? They have American military weaponry, American military vehicles and even elite American training.

They are legally bound to be a defensive force. But if they need to fight, they could probably handily destroy North Korea by themselves.
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>>140105856
And is not a thing of the past either it keeps happening but only handful of people in the armed forces has the guts to say something and when they do they are treated like traitors while the rapists/muerders are protected.
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>>140106165
My favorite part is when they deduce the soldiers they are fighting MUST be Americans because only Americans have black special forces operators.
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So will Konosuba totally kill any hopes for a new Gate season?
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>>140103721
Highlights of book 1: suicide bombers allahu akhbar devils and the demons get rekt so hard they get PTSD. Also, PFLH.

book 2 highlights: heaven nukes earth, earth nukes heaven back. Radars are lazers. Angel hookers.
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>>140106165
>Of course it would, and it sure do. But it usually happens in non-english spaces, so that's why you don't see it. Hollywood and Michael Bay and it tendencies to show an American flag every 5 minutes of his films are a great example of this

That is the thing when America doest it is ok but when anyone else doest is wrong. But is also weird because is not the first time that anime puts Japan in the center of the universe but this time it actually made a lot of people mad. But why? Is because this time it was with guns instead of katanas/magic/giant robots?
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>>140106299
I think it all depends on whether or not Gate was relying on BD sales to influence another season. Gate did not have very good sells.
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>>140093577
Because buttmad Americucks.
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>>140106549
It's not that Japanese soldiers are the heroes, it's that everyone else is cartoonishly evil.

Michel bay movies usually have the rest of the world rallying behind the merican heroes, same with most anime. In here japan is portrayed as the heroic underdog that has to take on the entire world, that's the difference between patriotism and nationalism.

Patriotism: Other countries are good, but our country is the best.
Nationalism: Other countries are scheming bastards, and we have to constantly defend ourselves from them because we are the last bastion of polite civilization.

Patriotism is a healthy attitude, even if it makes you look like a hick sometimes. Nationalism is a toxic worldview that distorts your judgement and makes you look like an absolute prick.
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>>140108095
>Nationalism: Other countries are scheming bastards, and we have to constantly defend ourselves from them
Sounds like realpolitik bro.
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>>140093577
It's just amerifat's who can't distinguish between reality and fiction, ignore them.
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>>140093577
Is the waifu game strong enough that I can overlook the occasional jap dick slaping my face?
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>>140093577
Why do people think Hitler was a nationalist?
He could've done the same things in any other country and he would get the same complaint.
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>>140108940

Godwin everybody. End of discussion.
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>>140100575
You know spies. Bunch of bitchy little girls.
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>>140108095
Nationalism is the belief that every people (nation) should have their own nation state. Patriotism is the belief that your country is good and worthy and you should work for its welfare.

Jingoism /= nationalism.

I'm a full blown commie but don't have anything against nationalism since it's the only fucking system of governance that actually works without devolving into a mess.
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>>140093577
Want a non-troll, honest answer to OP question? Because people have watched too few Godzilla movies. All the franchise's "JSDF fighting monsters" cliches come from there. But try to explain that to /pol/'s casuals and plebs.
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>>140106253
>My favorite part is when they deduce the soldiers they are fighting MUST be Americans because only Americans have black special forces operators.
Because it is true. Because most Americans are so retarded they don't realise how unusual their nation's racial composition are, and that out of the three major factions who would send black ops, Americans are the most likely to send someone with dark skin. The fact that you don't know that already prove you are an American.
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>>140109211
>arbitrary rules

We don't care, what now nerd.
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>>140102980
>>140103343
The medical unit of the SS told to the 731 unit to stop with the shit they where making because they where too sadist to produce any viable result
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>>140108889
The waifus were massacred from the manga version. THey're all bland J-pop idols now.
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>>140110619
>nation matters

One thing that has been clear in history of mankind is that the ideals, symbols, people and all things that basically make a nation mean absolutely nothing in long run.

Thousand years from now there won't be any stars and stripes, double headed eagle or commie stars.

All that will be left are faggots who killed each other for clay/money/different believes.
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>>140108215
No, that's the stance that the only thing that matters in international relations is power and the concept of good and bad have no application to nations.
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>>140111735
>The strong dictate policy to the weak
>To protect your nation from being exploited, you must be strong
>Do anything to attain that strength.
>Everyone thinks the same way, because people don't become strong by yielding power
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>>140111735
You may agree or not with the second, but the first can't be denied
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>>140106125
>Who said I'm mad?
Your behaviour
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>>140111215
>would send black ops
kek
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>>140100575

The reason the op failed was because they sent marines.

If the CIA used real SOF like Pararescue or SOWT they would have made the grab for sure.
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>>140112130

CIA should have just sent in CIA. CIA could have nabbed them no problem.
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>>140105610

You do have the pleasure of knowing that if you get raped by an American, he wasn't doing it with the approval of his government. If he was caught and proved guilty, he was either discharged, jailed, or shot, or a mix of the 3.

The US is smart enough to realize what a PR disaster rape is for an occupying force.
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>>140112173

I forgot to attach the pic
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>>140112277

Why should the US still be occupying them? It's been long enough. Trump was right, give them their own nukes and have them look to their own defenses.
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>>140111215

If RL US was planning this operation, they would send Chinese Americans with QBZ's (yes they do have a supply of those). And have them communicate in Chinese during the op.
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>>140112365
during WW2 dumbass.

The US shot about 40 people for rape, and discharged a bunch more.
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>>140093577
shit
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>Japan even being allowed to use the gate

Lel
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>>140102443
They have to do it in Russia. If the populace figured out that the rest of the world isn't as much of a shithole as Russian they'd have another revolution. You have to keep the old Soviet fantasy alive by convincing your people that everyone telling you your country is shit are just liars and spies.
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>>140100575
>with weapons training that they could get on short notice
CIA has has active paramilitary...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Division
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>>140105359

Pft, I can find today, dozens of Internet warriors who will handwave the nuclear bombs as totally necessary, no discussion, no debate, stop arguing you peon.
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>>140095359
>only focusing on the positives is propaganda
Only in the recent self flagellating west is this the case faggot
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>>140105359
>debating Fat Man and Little Boy

Literally the plebbest and most ignorant examples of war crimes. I honestly am starting to think that "debates" about the nuclear bombs is a honeypot/distraction from the Allies' other, more morally heinous, war crimes.
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>>140093577
Because it's completely delusional for Japan, a country without even an actual country, to do what it did in the show. Only a superpower can pull out something like that without any backlash.
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>>140116262
Japan is an American proxy, in the manga/light novel they acknowledge this and even mention material aid from the US.
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>>140105278
>The difference is that the war crimes committed by Americans were isolated incidents rather than systematic occurrences and that they were extralegal actions

Allied propaganda at work yet again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II
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>>140095868
>americans still mad about Pearl Harbour
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>>140116291
But they tried to cockblock the US, refused to share any information about the Gate and even talked about closing their border to the whole world, including the US, to monopoly the Gate. No way they could try anything like that IRL. A very traitorous proxy, if you ask me.
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>>140095637
Pearl Harbor and East Asia.
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>>140116751
When they talked about closing their border to the whole world, US was an exception. Unless you wee talking about Yanagida when he was explaining to Itami, in which case he was generalizing.

They also shared information with the US, even though it was limited, but there was some stuff they weren't willing to share (for logical reasons). Nobody's perfect.
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>>140111584
>because getting invaded and genocided sounds like a good idea
When you have a nation ran by people that care about you, you can have a easier life than being under your neighbours rule who wants to kill you and take your resources.
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>>140116926
>When they talked about closing their border to the whole world, US was an exception
[Citation needed]
>They also shared information with the US, even though it was limited, but there was some stuff they weren't willing to share (for logical reasons). Nobody's perfect.
If it's not for the US, the chinks and the gooks would have wrecked their shits. They showing any little sigh of not obeying is totally delusional and unrealistic.
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>>140117098
http://skythewood.blogspot.sg/2016/01/GJ49.html
>Only the American foreign minister was smiling. The TMCSUSJ permitted American soldiers to bear arms on Japanese soil, so the above conditions were largely irrelevant to them. As for the deposit money, there was no need for the US to worry about getting it back, given the relationship between the US and Japan. In addition, the sum was a pittance compared to the potentially vast benefits they could gain from the Gate.

>If it's not for the US, the chinks and the gooks would have wrecked their shits.
Wrong, the chinks and gooks wouldn't be able to touch them in the time period of WW2, and still would have problems today (though China is getting larger). At the time, the Russians were wrecking their shit and a swift US takeover prevented any encroachment from Russia outside the continent (other than the Kuril islands)

>any little sigh of not obeying is totally delusional and unrealistic
You are the one being delusional and unrealistic, welcome to the world of politics.
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>>140106234
>They have American military weaponry, American military vehicles and even elite American training.
The Iraqi army also has those thing, even more than the Japaneses, and guess what happened when 30 thousands of them facing a JV team consisted of hundred of sandal-wearing hobos?
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>>140117716
>The Iraqi army also has those thing (elite American training)
No they didn't, the US literally trained the Iraqi Army as checkpoint guards. Because, guess what, building an army from scratch (they completely dissolved Saddam's Republican Guard) is incredibly hard and takes a long time.
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>>140117937
>No they didn't, the US literally trained the Iraqi Army as checkpoint guards
Nope, they trained them as counter-terrorist forces because Al-Qaeda and Saddam's remnant are still there, so they needed an army strong enough to maintain order once the US military pulled out, or that's how things're supposed to be.
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>>140098668
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>>140118209
>or that's how things're supposed to be
And that's the problem. In the Iraq war a lot of thing that were supposed to be, were not.

https://next.ft.com/content/a089e41e-081c-11e4-9afc-00144feab7de
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>>140118209
Actually, both of us were right.

http://warisboring.com/articles/the-u-s-militarys-poor-record-training-the-iraqi-army/

“The Iraqi army that we left in 2011 was an army that had been trained for counterinsurgency. That means route clearance, checkpoint operations, and IED [improvised explosive device] reduction, for example. The Iraqi army that collapsed in 2014 was … not trained and … not ready for a conventional fight — the conventional assault that ISIL brought to Mosul and beyond.”
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Is the dark elf in the show yet? Should I bother watching the show? Does it being anything new to the table, compared to the manga?
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>>140111584
>no double headed eagle
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>>140108095

This. It's not that the Japanese are doing cool shit and kicking ass, its that Russia and China are cartoon evil, and America is both cartoon evil and inexplicably just as hostile to Japan, despite the past... Seventy years at this point.

And yes, I date that from 1946, and this is also on the running topic of war crimes.

However many people LeMay might have killed in the strategic bombing campaigns, plus the atomic bombs, all that the U.S. would have needed to do to cause an order of magnitude more deaths in Japan after the surrender was to do nothing, and let several million people starve.

What actually happened was that the U.S. provided 92 million dollars worth of food aid (slightly more than a billion in 2016 dollars) in 1946, and three times that amount in '47. It's one of those things that you never really hear about that much.
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>>140118495
Yes
No
Only color and movement. I despise the designs, art, and direction. Manga is much better, but the anime has gotten ahead of the manga (S2) so watch if you're craving (poor delivered) plot and you don't feel like reading some guy's summary on animesuki forums.
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>>140095637
They raped koreans and gave them tsundere stockholm syndrome with daddy issues.
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>>140118473
>Actually, both of us were right.
Agree. But my original point is that the Japaneses received no more, or could even less than the Iraqis, military training and equipment to face any conventional force. At least, the Iraqi army still had real experience fighting terrorists, insurgents and the US forces trained them with the mindset they would pull out soon. While the Japaneses have no real combat experience at all, and the US don't plan to retreat anytime soon.
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>>140108095
>Michael Bay

That is just a resent example. Old American media is filled with stories were everyone else is either evil or an smelly, uncivilized retard.

>Toxic

>>>Tumblr
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>>140118609
Who is being evil? Countries are looking out for their interests, just like in the real world and how realpolitik describes.

US, Russia, and China (maybe) doing shadowy shit with their intelligence agencies is also 100% completely accurate.
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>>140118704
Fucking Independence Day.

>frenchman #1: americans found out how the save the world
>frenchman #2: about fucking time.
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>>140093577
People are mad because they are getting a taste of their own nationalistic medicine.
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>>140118609
This. The nukes were actually an act of mercy, it was done to breakdown the Japaneses' resistance and make them surrender. Because if they didn't, Downfall would have been conduct and millions of Japaneses would have been killed, half of their country could have even been occupied by the commies.
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>>140118691
While experience is important, I think you're overestimating it's importance. The Japanese have actual training and the necessary institutions to fight conventional war, Iraq did not. It's an unfair comparison, literally comparing the capabilities between a toddler and an adult. The Japanese also holds regular joint exercises with the US.
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>>140111584
>>140118550

In all seriousness, though, that's a dangerously nearsighted view. Maybe the symbols disappear (but the Aquila has had a solid run so far) and don't matter, but the question of 'how did we get here' is a valid one.

Eight hundred years ago, a group of petty lords were tired of their King making capacious decisions, so they decided to go make him agree to some ground rules - if they hadn't, modern society would be radially different.

Thirteen hundred years ago, the bastard son of a King led an army to fight an invading force, and if they hadn't stood firm, civilization today would be unrecognizable.
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>>140116712
>nips still butthurt about the nukes

You reap what you sow
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>>140118890
>half of their country could have even been occupied by the commies
This is the real reason we used the nukes
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>>140119213
>we used the nukes
Jesus Christ, anon. How old are you?
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>>140119334
I AM AMERICA AND (almost) 240 YEARS OLD
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>>140093577
>Some fags reveal that the American government as being spying almost every other country even their own allies.

>B-But anime is making us look bad!
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>>140118890

More than thirty Million civilian militia troops, including:

>Old men with muskets
>Old women with bamboo spears
>Anti-Tank Schoolgirls

As for the regular army:

>65 Divisions of troops
>40 Divisions of weapons
>30 Divisions of ammunition
>0 Intention to surrender
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>>140093834
their enemy is fighting with swords and arrows so its still pretty believable
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>>140118259
The original comic ended at the newspaper. Some fag added the rest and killed the joke.
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>>140120109
Civilians and the army can't fight if they start starving from a complete naval blockade.
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>>140118890
wups http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/
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>>140121455
>http://foreignpolicy.com
Complete utter garbage.

Anyways the reason is both the bomb and stalin did.
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>>140106165
>The JSDF can not only shoot down American, Russian, and Chinese teams with no own casualties, they also don't have to care about repercussions, because those nations are so evil, they couldn't argue about the incident in public.

i wonder what would happen if the US, russia and china would say in that case
"we tried kidnapping your tourists from another world, and since you killed all of our armed super secret special ops soldiers, we demand repercussions"
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>>140121555
Do you not understand the principle of black ops? Officially, they don't happen, so you can't do shit like demand reparations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Division

>Special Operations Group (SOG) is the department within SAD responsible for operations that include high threat military or covert operations with which the U.S. government does not wish to be overtly associated.[2] As such, members of the unit (called Paramilitary Operations Officers and Specialized Skills Officers) normally do not carry any objects or clothing (e.g., military uniforms) that would associate them with the United States government.[3] If they are compromised during a mission, the United States government may deny all knowledge.[4]
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>>140121716
..that was kinda my point
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>>140121737
Oh sorry, I missed the sarcasm. Because sometimes black/secret ops do become sticking/sore points in international relations.
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>>140112363
>JSOG being better than Force Recon
Holy shit. Just fuck my shit up senpai.
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>>140122206
>being dropped on a mission by order of the White House with <24 hours notice and even less time planning and scouting
>get wrekt

It makes sense.
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>>140118890
>Occupied by the commies
How the fuck would Russia get on Japan? IT had literally no navy; its plan to attack Japan required US ships literally borrowing it from them. Russia had no training in beach assaults or amphibious warfare like the US as well, and then there is the fact the US would've blockaded Russia.

I'm tired of this shit myth USSR was going to invade and occupy Japan.
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>>140122538
They occupied Kuril islands just fine and were planning to invade Hokkaido
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>>140112442
>If RL US was planning this operation, they would send Chinese Americans with QBZ's (yes they do have a supply of those). And have them communicate in Chinese during the op.
They had 24 hours to do the operation. They barely were able to get the team together in time, there was no means to be deceptive.
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>>140122361
Not really, most of American Tier 1 and 2 teams can be deployed anywhere around the world within 24 hours. The training they go through would give them the ability to decimate the JSOG and extract without any further complications. However, it is highly unlikely that we would even need to send in any teams due to Japan being cucked by America.
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>>140122538
The one who had no navy anymore was Japan. Soviets still had their navy, even if it was weak compared to the other major forces it was still enough to beat the few leftovers of the IJN.
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>>140122538
Don't underestimate the will of Stalin. Red army would find a way.

Actually it would be fun to watch the steamrolling of what was left of Japan after the nukes.
Nowadays all they do is making patronizing statements about how the nukes are bad and how their poor poor civilians suffered.
It makes me wanna spit and I'm not even American.
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>>140122919
The problem was that officially the Empire representatives (Pina and Bozes) officially "didn't exist"™ so, officially, it would be difficult to cuck Japan through the official channels in time to have them meet the US.

Also neither was deployment the problem, the problem is intel and operating basically completely blind. All the training and experience in the world won't help you if you walk directly into a death trap, after direct orders from the political leadership.
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>/pol/ hour

About time this came back in GATE threads.
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>>140108095
>cartoonishly evil.
how?

also you dont know what nationalism is.
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>>140119107
>You reap what you sow

I know right?
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>>140093577
Every show has "criticism" that is essentially retards throwing shit at the wall and watching if any of it sticks.
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>>140125817
My little terrorists cant be this cute.
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>>140116712
american still mad "blank blank blank "
could be said anytime
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>>140104443
I rather read Gate than that tripe. I can understand the weak to iron weaponry bullshit since that is the equivalent of a religion meme, but curing a fucking supernatural plague through penicillin? That shit went full retard in its wanking.
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>>140125012
>anything related to politics and war is /pol/ tier
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>>140106549
You don't think American movies get shit on for that?

Because they do.
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>>140128860

Well, yes?
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>>140095637
Rape of Nanking
Pearl Harbor
Comfort Women
Enslavement of koreans
Eradication of the Ainu
Being pretentious nasty cunts throughout the majority of history
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>>140131100

You should see the books. Tom Clancy was practically masturbating American patriotism into his books at one point.
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>>140132891
There's nothing particularly wrong with patriotism if your country is indeed the greatest nation to ever grace the face of the earth.
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>>140132071
Pearl harbor was an attack on a naval base instead of civilians ameriterrorist
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>>140125817
fuck you
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>>140133201
Unprovoked attack.
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>>140133612
>unprovoked
nah, they had decent reasons
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>>140116751
Because the US was being greedy and trying to snatch a pair of (unofficial) foreign dignitaries in the care of Japan when later events revealed that they would be getting a piece of the pie at no risk to themselves.

>>140122919
I don't doubt they can physically get there, but I doubt they can get there covertly enough to avoid Japanese intelligence finding out. And remember that the location of the resort was deliberately leaked to foreign powers in order to draw in any hidden agents in the rushed mission which followed that night. Not to mention the restriction on equipment (basically they can't risk anything tying them to the US) would have rendered them pretty much the same as the CIA agents save training and determination.

>>140128129
The thing about the Salvation War trilogy is that that things which appear supernatural are just scientific phenomena which people do not understand and which they call supernatural because they don't want/dare to question it.

>>140132071
You forgot
>fucked over all of Southeast Asia in their mad quest for power
>>140133612
>>140133764
Honestly, what the fuck was Japan thinking by attacking Pearl Harbor, the US was the only one hitting them. If they had just chilled the fuck out and raped Asia harder instead then I would probably be part-Japanese from where my grandmother got raped by nips.

Unless the US was planning to step in anyway, then a pre-emptive strike makes sense.
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I am very confused by this thread. What I gather is everyone is butthurt because in a fictional cartoon made in Japan, Japan has a military and acted like a first world nation. This is somehow propaganda?
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>>140118691
>and the US don't plan to retreat anytime soon.
Not if Trump is elected.
He wants to either pull a large portion of military spending out of east asia, or make the Japanese and Koreans pay more on their end for it.
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>>140134326
It's more like because the Japanese were shown as killing Americans in a turkey shoot scenario. Not that it could have turned out otherwise IRL, of course.

After that it's basically the civilized world (through the JSDF) being heroic and rectalragnaroking Iron Age Romans.
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>>140134503
Proof that Trump is a fucking idiot when it comes to foreign policy. "Hey guys, let's let China take over".
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>>140093577
I don't think it's any more Propaganda-ish than anything we here in the US put out. I mean, it could use the healthy dose of irony and being able to laugh at itself we put into stuff over here in Burgerstan, but whatever.

I just think it's poorly written and the setting could use some serious work.

Plus like, what's the point of throwing a modern military against a fantasy army if it's gonna end with a complete stomp, anyways? Both sides should be adapting and researching like their lives depended on it. Because you know, their lives depend on it.

Pic related did Lost Roman Legion founds an Empire way better, anyways.
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>>140134530
>Not that it could have turned out otherwise IRL
A CIA SAD team would rek any JSDF opposition in real life. Those guys are hardcore and experienced.
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>>140135881
The JSDF are trained by americans too.
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>>140097727
That we've always killed each other in great numbers and that it's only a matter of time before we start killing each other again. Only now we've got nukes so maybe this time we can fuck the rest of the world too.
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>>140097727
nazis are evil
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>>140135878
>what's the point of throwing a modern military against a fantasy army if it's gonna end with a complete stomp, anyways?
Because it's interesting to imagine what the reactions of both sides might be? And because in all likelihood a purely military curb stomp wouldn't be the goal of the more advanced nation, nor would shooting people with spears to pieces be the major point or attraction of the show.
Dunno if I would call Jim Butcher's work better than Gate. It's certainly better written, but the Gate world feels fresher, at least to me. I enjoyed Gate a whole lot more.
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>>140098439
I find that hard to believe, I mean this is 4chan so how'd you even know someone was a chink or gook? How did they manage to out themselves?
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>>140093577
because Japan is full of noguns who are afraid of getting America's testicles of freedom dropped on them again if they start having a real military again. And bakagaijin anime watchers are full of noguns who think they'd actually be safe if their country had no guns or military at all and anything pro-military is seen as a threat to their cumchugging ideals.
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>>140117716
the Iraqi national military had no faith in their leadership and didn't want to get pointlessly dickstomped by the US Military because the rich guy(s) at the top wanted to measure cocks with Uncle Sam. Then later on some privately funded warlord(s) show up and start offering far better pay than the national military ever did...
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>>140135878
>Both sides should be adapting and researching like their lives depended on it. Because you know, their lives depend on it.

I get the feeling that they're slowly working up to that, it's pretty clear that magic could be the game changer for the fantasyfags. Just at the pace the anime is going, it'll only take like 30 seasons to get to that point.
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>>140135603
You get what you deserve.
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>>140138581
>They are afraid

Actually they are not allowed to have have or develop any mayor military equipment. If anything is everyone else that is afraid of what Japan could do if they become powerful enough to fight again
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>>140139474
>Not allowed

If they weren't afraid of getting teabagged with a couple more bombs they'd tell the rest of the world that we can shove that rule up our asses
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>>140111584
May not matter in the distant future, but it damn matters in the present and the near future ya ungrateful bastard.
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>>140093781
It is bad because they haven't learn the last time nationalism ruined their country. Ruin everyone else's countries too for that matter.
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>>140127773
So does this mean that Bozes is a camp whore?
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>>140137180
That's where the "experience" part comes in.
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>>140103721
Go to bed Stuart
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>>140097844
>i've gone through hundreds of simulations, I KNOW HOW THIS FIGHT WILL GO
>shit WARFARE IS UNPREDICTABLE AAAAAA
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>>140142664
Well, if you run simulations with all possible scenarios it's essentially the same thing. Just without the dying part.
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>>140142336

Whores charge for their services.

Bozes does it for the attention.
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>>140135878
>Plus like, what's the point of throwing a modern military against a fantasy army if it's gonna end with a complete stomp, anyways?
The point is that it isn't about portraying military superiority. It is about resisting the temptations of the past, of trying to test one's self for being better men than our own ancestors. The JSDF are trying to behave as they wish to behave, while the Empire make JSDF's attempt of peaceful negotiations as difficult as possible.

GATE is NOT about "finding the bad guy and kill him". It is all about the much harder task of trying to be diplomatic with an enemy who doesn't understand the concept of peaceful negotiations. If you just want "Mission Accomplished", note that the author wrote the book after the Iraq war and basically was trying to write about a different possible outcome. That just maybe, we can try NOT dismantling the local government and plunge the nation into anarchy?
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>>140132071
But only the last of those is bad
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>>140103231
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
LA KAKA KRETINA KONKUDA KAGONA
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
That would be La Campora or the other side?
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>>140145590
Meant to >>140102443
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>>140093577
I remember a thread about it being literally backed by the JSDF.
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whoops posted wrong image due to thumbnail looking the same
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>>140141063
that wasn't nationalism.
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>>140103721
names and author plox.

searching "Salvation war" on Amazon got me all kinds of shit about terminator, the civil war, and john cena
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>>140134237
It somehow manages to kill every first-born and only the first born. How the hell can that be considered 'scientific'?
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So could GATE have been written in a way to make it less nationalistic? Or at the very least, show that the conflict isn't completely black and white?

Maybe they could have had villagers disgusted at the way the JSDF callously slaughter soldiers. Or a few JSDF agents who think of the whole GATE operation as just a game.
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>>140147353
a lot of scenes have some of the jsdf not really taking it seriously at all.
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>>140139474
>Everyone else is afraid of what Japan could do.
Nobody is afraid of what Japan could do. US would rape it harder than it did during WWII if Japan acted up.

>Inb4 WWII Imperial Japan.
You do know Japan got lucky during WWII and was first to be modernized in Asia. They got bogged down by the Chinese who if weren't fighting against each other, and acting like shit, had their military catch up Japan would've got pushed the fuck back and any successful occupation would become shorter than it originally did.

The Japanese Empire was still employing WWI tactics during WWII; Army and Navy were holding the Civil Government at gunpoint and could end up dissolving it. Hirohito was a fucktard who went along with shit, and was too much of a fucking pussy to exercise Command and Control despite being the military prior.

Imperial Japan got lucky. The moment it faced an actual modernized military force like the Soviets, Americans, Brits it got hurt big time. Especially with that fucktard policies the field commanders would issue.
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>>140147353
>Maybe they could have had villagers disgusted at the way the JSDF callously slaughter soldiers.
That would make no sense. The villagers, in the Empire culture, barely have anything close to patriotic feelings towards the Empire government. The soldiers are not viewed as "theirs", the villagers have no loyalty towards them. Your attempt to make JSDF look bad is ignoring the fact that most modern armies are more civilisised when compared to the Empire, and that even if they committed Genocide the Empire citizens would still see it as a regular expected practice. Yes, the JSDF look good, but not because they are saints. The JSDF looks good because there was basically nothing they could do that Empire wasn't already doing worse.
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>>140148271

The biggest advantage in looking good is that the JSDF has is that it can give away luxuries and resources to refugees that are frankly beyond the Empire.

Daily shows and toothbrushes? It's the high life!
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>>140093577
There's significantly different historical context for Japan making this shit compared to any other country, considering they've been cucked out of a millitary for the last 70 years.
If a country like the USA made some shit like this it wouldn't make any fucking sense at all, but Japan is a special case.
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>>140137180

And what makes you think the US would actually train the Japanese to the same standards that they train their own Special Forces.

The funny thing is, the unit in Gate that stomped the Burgers/Chinks/Slavs aren't even "tier 1". They are JSDF Rangers, which are a a couple rungs below their actual SOF.

Those SOF aren't that great either. Japan's SOF situation was so pathetic that they labeled two platoons of their paratrooper brigade as "Special Forces" so that they would at least have a unit that can go on joint training missions with American SF.

Yea, it was that bad.
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>>140094219

Nah, it's not stale. Chinese are subhuman savages.
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>>140150646
Holy fucking shit.
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>>140150646
>Nah, it's not stale. Chinese are subhuman savages.
>>140151534
>Holy fucking shit.
It's just culture. China still functioned the same way for the last 5000 years, in that rules are only used to fuck other people over and could otherwise be ignored. This is how their government works, and this trickles down to every sector of society. If you don't want to be fucked over, you had to "know somebody".
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>>140150525
>so that they would at least have a unit that can go on joint training missions with American SF
That doesn't make any sense, because it implies they had no special forces at all.
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>>140150525

Honestly, the foreign teams getting slaughtered wasn't that big of an SoD breaker. I mean, the JSDF pretty much had all the cards in that situation. The biggest problem is that not a single one of those countries would be retarded enough to do something like that in the first place. Beyond "lololol imma take these offworlders by force", who the fuck would send in a virtually unsupported special ops raid? Anyone suggesting that plan would have been laughed outta the room
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>>140152099
>Implying that's not how any government works
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>>140098441
>nationalism
>jingoism
>as fuck
I think you should recalibrate your metric, for the anime is rather mellow in it portrayal of the japanese military. I mean the show is more about how they are sent over with shoddy equipment, and how the armies hands are tied by a bureaucratic system. there are some questionable scenes yes, like how the US army sent in a team to nap some people. the US would not do that, it would just exert political pressure on japan.

but I think they added the US not because of some seeded mistrust towards the US expressed by the anime, but rather to counter balance their portrayal of the chinese and the russians lest they be accused of something.
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>>140153208
this. it is virtually unrealistic to conduct such an operation in a first world country, let alone one that has an extremely high population density and is an island.
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>>140139058
>implying there will ever be a third season
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The only propaganda that's allowed is propaganda that demeans your nationality, promotes homosexuality, transgenderism, promiscuity and sexual deviancy in children. Basically the trash that's on western television all the time. It also has to have no aesthetic standard because aesthetics are evil. What kind of evil person would spend their time perfecting their craft when they could give themselves an enema with paint and shit out art?
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>>140146587
Stuart Slade
I've heard it's pretty bad though, and although the story isn't finished the last book might never be written. The publishers claim that they cannot make any money of it because of copyright infringement.
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>>140152759

They didn't before.

The Japanese military SOF community is very new. They had domestic counter-terrorism teams, but nothing like the SAS or it's offspring.

They only officially started their SF program in 2004, when they sent two platoons of paratroopers to study with Delta and found their own SF unit.
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I finally had to quit watching the show because it got so stupid. There's only so much suspension of disbelief I can take.

Instead of magic vs technology we get hours of Padme arguing in the galactic senate level shit interspersed with scenes of a society so incompetent it cannot defend itself despite living in a world where wizards and dragons LITERALLY ROAM FREE.

Even an immortal goth loli orgasming on screen couldn't save it.

It is the very definition of propoganda
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>>140155636
>They only officially started their SF program in 2004
According to WP 2004 is when the unit was ready.
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>>140155669
The problem is that the JSDF's bullets and mortars are more effective than Imperial magic and the only dragon we've seen that could pose a threat happens to be uncontrollable. (Which makes sense. Why would a huge monster that cannot be hurt by shooting and that's free to fry and eat all the villages it comes across let itself be controlled?)
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>>140093577
Would be still propaganda.


21 cent army vs cave man.

WoW

Why not make animoo about goku robots murdering babys.
Its simply staat propaganda telling kids that army is cool and if they join they kill dragons and shit.


Like that marien d&d add.
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>>140155533
The only bad part I can think of is how much he describes a lot of the military equipment or technology. When I say a lot I mean A LOT.

I thought the author didn't want to write another because of how pirated the first two are.
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>>140155904
A friend who read the first book said that it has a painful shortage of relatable characters, or any well-written characters for that matter, and that the plot, if you can still call it that, is as coherent as dust. He didn't mind the army porn, although he said I might, but he didn't like the writing style at all.
>I thought the author didn't want to write another because of how pirated the first two are.
That's what I said, although from a different perspective. Authors write what publishers will pay for, publishers won't touch the Salvation War. Publishers blame copyright infringement, my friend says it probably just didn't sell because it was so bad.
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>>140093577
Basically, Burgers don't like it when someone other than Burgerstan is allowed to look good in any form of media, chinks still think they can use the past to distract people from the atrocities they commit on their own people and their neighbors today, and gooks are just crybaby faggots being buttmad that the world likes Japan more than their piece of shit country, as usual.
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>>140112095
underrated post
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>>140154935
>it is virtually unrealistic to conduct such an operation in a first world country
But what's the harm in sending them? They are disposable, the whole point is that it doesn't matter if they fail. If you can't afford to lose them, then they are no longer worth using.
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>>140153255
>>Implying that's not how any government works
Other governments at least try to hide bending of the rules. The Chinese government made it very clear as official policy that rules only apply when they want them to apply. Laws are written in such a way that nearly everyone is guilty of something, so that anyone who is sufficiently hated can get arrested at a moment's notice, if they have enough enemies.
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>>140154803
They get shitty gear because it's 1) surplus and 2) arguably more effective against Gate-side targets (5.56 has less penetration vs ogres and plate armored people).

And yes, the US should have just offered to bankroll the Japs in their shit and just leaned on them to give them a share of the pie afterwards.

>>140153208
They weren't SF, though. They were intelligence operatives, not elite troops.
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>>140106234
A child with a BB gun could take over Best Korea.
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>>140103358
I'd really rather not.
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>>140135881
Tell me about these people (I'm not being sarcastic).

Also, what is this Tier 1 and 2 stuff? SF powerlevels? I imagine it measures capabilities, so what capabilities does it measure?
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>>140157423
>bankroll the Japs in their shit
Isn't that what more or less happens in Gate though?
Dirrel lets the nips do all the hard work, and got them to promise the US a slice of the pie.
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>>140093577
Saying GATE isn't propaganda is like saying American Sniper isn't propaganda.
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For those who don't know, here are some details from the web novels that didnt make it through the bunko, LN and manga version

1.)The Ginza- Double Bridge incident lasted seven days, 3 days were the police trying to subdue the notRomans and failing so they retreat to the palace and acted under command of Itami.

2.) The US forces stationed at Okinawa was the very first forces that are raring to go, but was blocked by the politicians.

3.)The JSDF was supplied with coldwar era weapons except for some vehicles and miniscule force and budget because the liberals want the JSDF to die. Then they can vote no confidence and they can easily dissolve JSDF and let US handle it. Itami told his subordinates its a budget issue to not get demoralized

4.)When Itami says to Kurata "we're the JSDF, people love us" he says it with sarcasm. JSDF is seen worse than an otaku neet in Japan

5.)US wants to send in 50000 troops in the SR.

6.)the 2 previous prime ministers mulled on how simple minded are the citizens and the politicians. because the civilians and liberals want no involvement and want US to handle the SR situation. If the US or any other country needs to set up a FOB in the SR, they need to be supported by bases on the other side of the gate, which means Tokyo would be occupied by other countries and the people would be basically kicked out of their own country. and this would pose sovereignty issues and the civilians dont realize the gravity of this issue

5.)in the end. everyone is dead, peace is achieved, Pina is crowned empress, peace is achieved with Japan. a memorial is built in the memory of 10000 JSDF that fought there.
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>>140158954
Atleast Americans are open about it being propaganda, unlike Japan.
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>>140158995
>lasted seven days
That's retarded. Even a moderate police force could wipe out a Roman legion in a matter of hours. In fact, the power difference is so big that I think that the mobile police unit would probably use tear gas to try to minimise casualties and just arrest them.
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>>140159195
Japanese moderate police forces don't carry riot gear around with them and unlike the US, isn't a police state.
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>>140159276
My own country isn't a police state either, but every major city has a riot police unit equipped with water cannons, tear gas grenades, riot shields and stuff like that. Sometimes you just need to show a bunch of soccer hooligans who's boss.
Japan similarly has riot police units and in the real world (not Gate) these are generally drummed up in full force even for very minor incidents, where we'd just use a regular armed response unit.
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>>140159423
basically, a 500 police, mostly armed with nanbus and riot shields are no match to 200000 notRoman forces, also this is still when the empire mages are still alive, so a lot of the police were massacred.
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>>140093577
It's only the chinks and gooks who spy on a/, who say shit like that.
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this anime is a shitty harem show that almost completely ignores the interesting and complex questions about how these worlds would interact/change/deal with each other and instead is just a generic shitty harem show that wasted all of its potential
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>>140159468
In the real world (not Gate) the Japanese riot police has access to stuff like tear gas, firearms and such. Even in Gate, mages are shown to be less than ideal. I maintain that a fight of seven days is ludicrous.
After reading the first LN I thought that the author needed an editor. The idea of Gate is nice, the execution not so much. I've since learnt that the WNs were heavily edited into the LNs and that's a good thing. I think the editors should have done more.
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>>140159586
Oh no, a show with characters and feelings and relations! Whatever will we do?
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>>140108095
>Nationalism: Other countries are scheming bastards, and we have to constantly defend ourselves from them because we are the last bastion of polite civilization.
Gandhi called himself a nationalist, Mandela called himself a nationalist. Apparently they didn't know what nationalism means, but you do.
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>>140159423
Japan did show the riot police having water cannons and tear gas grenades.

There's also the sheer number of people streaming in. You're deluding yourself if your police force could immediately mobilize and stop the constant stream of muscled aryans and monsters, stalling until the military got in.
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>>140159663
Gate "Characters"
1. Shitty otaku self insert
2. Loli goth catgirl that gets off to killing
3. Huge tits blond elf
Do I need to go on? The characters in this show are 2 dimensional with almost nonexistent personalities or character development besides being fanservice. The show largely ignores interesting possibilities of a modern and medieval world colliding like cultural clashes, political intrigue for both the fantasy world's major governments and our own, instead it wastes all of its potential by being a shitty harem comedy that constantly tries to shove its "Japanese are superior to everyone" propaganda down your throat.
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>>140159603
>>140159603
this is the author first novel

but nevertheless, 500 people is still too small to handle 200000.

I think you misunderstand something.

The fight lasted 7 days because not the police and JSDF were incompetent, but the politicians, were arguing regarding on how to deal with the situation.

Is the situation calls for the US-Japan security deal? Can we negotiate with the NotRomans? Muh article 9? No, we can't let JSDF handle it.


basically all the days the civilians holed up in the palace, the politicians were arguing among themselves.
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Portraying the JSDF almost wholly positively wasn't a big deal to me. The idea that contemporary, Geneva Conventions-compliant military forces would look fucking amazing compared to medieval, rape and pillage armies really shouldn't be in contention.

The really stupid part was the whole clusterfuck at Hakone, and how anti-war elements are portrayed. The journalist in the final episode especially, who says he's going to write a piece about how the JSDF is wasting money by having their tanks sitting in the garage.

Should those tanks be rolling across the Special Region countryside, blowing up everyone? Fucking hell.
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>>140160043
>>140160043
You will be surprised that the journalist is more or less the typical journalist you can see in Japan, the only good thing about that journalist is that he openly admits being a shit head.

I mean, only in 2014 did the Japan citizens have a favorable view of the JSDF.

the thing about the tanks is that theyre too large. in the assault of Jade Palace, it was suggested to airdrop a type 74 in the middle of the Jade Palace but drop because the roads are too narrow for the type 74 when its time to withdraw.
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>>140159880
All I can say is that you must have been watching/reading a different series than I have.
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>>140159927
And if you think that would happen in the real world, you are deluding yourself. Especially in the case of Japan which happily sends in a platoon of riot police to a dormitory to arrest three dissident students.
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>>140160564
Maybe you are the one deluded. truth is always stranger than fiction.

JSDF has to be accompanied by the austrailian troops in Iraq, just to make JSDF have no fighting involvement. literal fights in the senate just to send troops to Iraq in a support role

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3097947.stm
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>>140160874
Which is a situation in no way comparable to a Roman legion walking down the street. Japan has a history of being quite harsh on internal upsets. (To the point of actually using riot police against pensioners. Not that I feel so bad for the pensioners because in Japan they are often paid protesters, but still.)
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>>140158834
That's what the US has been doing ever since WW2 ended. Helped the Japs rebuild their infrastructure and basically turned Japan into force projection in East Asia.

So Dirrel did not need to send a snatch team to grab two (foreign) dignitaries which might have given Russia and China an excuse to censure the US and move their forces in (hurrr the US is abusing an ally we must protect them). He could have just said "k-keep me posted".

>>140159195
You need automatic or chemical weapons to kill that many people so fast. Police forces are equipped to subdue criminals, not kill them.
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>>140160043
The Hakone firefight went down as well as it should have, but it should never have taken place to begin with.

Seriously, you want to bait in foreign nationals and kill them in cold blood and piss them off? They would honestly have been better served letting Itami use his super guerilla skills to hide them, although then there would be no onsen episode.

>>140159603
It's hardly ludicrous since you're fighting in BUA where:

- artillery and all WMDs are forbidden
- distributed cavalry army with lots of cover
- door to door fighting is a pain especially with so many tall buildings.

I imagine the JSDF BTFOed the Imperial Army whenever they encountered them, but the Imperials soon went to ground, forcing the JSDF units to hunt for them.
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Much of the strength of the roman legions were in logistics and morale. Keeping soldiers well fed, well drilled helps to increase combat effectiveness but also helps to stop them from running away.
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>>140162164
Didn't the romans have that belt sander fighting style where they kept rotating troops out of the firing line when they got tired/wounded? So basically they chewed through unorganized hordes quickly.
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>>140162109
In the webnovels, it was a 4 way firefight. all dead except 2 americans, but took hours to finish and Itami and co. escape already

Bunko it was 3 way firefight, since the Japs were blackmailed to withdraw

LN, manga and anime, Roury steps in
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>>140161995
everyone is impatient because by the time the earth arc is happening, it was global recession time, so everyone is looking at SR hooping for things that will prop up the economy.

everyone backed out when they learn that the empire is informed that empire is using guerilla tactics, except for china, who will secretly smuggle in 10000 soldiers at command by Diabo in exchange for Leilei.

JSDF got more leeways too by thier government when the news of oil and mining rights by Duran was approved and the news of Itami being gifted a huge adamantite
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>>140162204

Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7MYlRzLqD0
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>>140163753
fucking idiot who lusted for Tomita's ranger cock and couldnt settle to be a concubine.

and also doesnt realize that his superior is better and has a ranger and special forces cock to boot too.
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>>140163977
>and also doesnt realize that his superior is better and has a ranger and special forces cock to boot too


But she does realize it.
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>>140164099
what i mean is that he lusted for Tomita although the story and Kuri and Itami bantz is setting them up as a couple but got dropped after Pina is introduced
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>>140164318

True enough. But her wanting the Tomita dick is really weird, I wonder how it is brought up in the LNs.
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>>140164392
challenged to Bozes to a fight to death knife CQC fight, ala Crips and Bloods style one hand tied.

Kuri says she will even treat Bozes kid as her own if she wins.
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>>140164484

That much I know, but up until now in both manga and anime she has shown zero interest in Tomita, even when they discussed Bozes feelings about him in the onsen, so I wonder if it's just abruply decided or if there's a buildup of her feelings in the source material.
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>>140157351

>But what's the harm in sending them? They are disposable, the whole point is that it doesn't matter if they fail. If you can't afford to lose them, then they are no longer worth using.

CIA SAD is the very opposite of "disposable". They get political deniability, but each operative quite literally costs their weight in gold to train and equip. All those extreme conditions training that special forces get are expensive as fuck.

>>140157423
> They weren't SF, though. They were intelligence operatives, not elite troops.

See >>140112363


If you can find an 0326, I would pay real money for you to tell him that he's a desk jocky and can't touch the Japanese rangers, then record the confrontation.
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>>140164812
It feels like a very unnatural plot development anyway. I mean seriously?
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>>140166219
>If you can find an 0326, I would pay real money for you to tell him that he's a desk jocky and can't touch the Japanese rangers, then record the confrontation.
Which kind of proves the point that scene was making.
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>>140166219
Heidegger is the only legit there. he was accompanying rejects thinking theyre hotshots.

I mean Ramirez and Roger doesnt even look a year past 30s, I dont expect them to be really good.
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>>140166219
He was one guy in MFR. Doesn't imply they're all SF. Even if he was SF, I doubt they could do much better with the deck stacked against them. SF aren't superheroes, they're just good at what they do.

Although he was noticeably more competent than just about everyone else, Rory had to personally finish him off after everyone else got killed. Or was it Heidegger?
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>>140166955
Yep, Heidegger was the only legit good, everyone else is a Iraq war 2 veteran, Jarhead style
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I'm wondering what the Murican version of Gate would be. Jap culture affecting the Special Region seems more interesting than, oh, American pop culture.

I can just imagine some pink haired feminist telling the Akusho girls to stand up for themselves and getting slapped.
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>>140167298
unless its 80's america. everyone loves the 80s
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>>140167385
I was actually thinking that too. Have some guy with an amp and a guitar teach the Akusho people classics like Painkiller and Holy Diver.
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>Imperial Britain
>Imperial America
>Imperial Portugal
>Imperial Spain
>Imperial Netherlands
>It's cool guys

>Imperial Germany
>Imperial Japan
>Imperial Russia
>NOOOOOOOOOO

>Britain invents and sets up concentration camps in Africa
>Yeah sure

>Germany builds them as well
>NOOOOOOO b-but the Jews
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>>140167893

>no Imperial France

Please, that was the last time we were relevant.
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>>140168354
Yeah sorry, realized it right afterwards. At least you still have some of your possessions.
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>tfw no Giselle to cuddle with
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>>140122831
>Implying the CIA lacks of chink americans
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>>140134326
>Japan
>has a military
>a first world nation
You should relearn the definition of those terms. Japan has no official military and the closest thing they have is a bunch of untrained, corrupted cowards. They are also too racist, sexist and xenophobic for a first world nation that I don't even know why they're considered one.
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>>140169855
spotted the butthurt corean
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>>140169855

>untrained
no

>corrupted
maybe

> too racist, sexist and xenophobic
maybe, never been there

But the US doesn't let their proxy merc be untrained and useless when they can, and the JSDF has had decades of peace to train.
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>>140170044
I've read that American tankers like Japanese tankers a lot. Among the better ones they've worked with.
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>>140170121

Well it would depend on training AND experience. French light wheeled tanks were a boon in the mountains of Afghanistan.

But different theaters.
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>>140168354
Is that the famous French oh-no-we're-no-longer-relevant-and-therefore-we-must-pretend-to-be-extra-important complex?
FYI, France and Germany are basically the pillars keeping the EU afloat, French nuclear deterrent is what keeps the russkies away (because we all know the limeys will do eff all as long as they can happily turtle on their little island and the yanks have given up on us), France is a major economic power, the peace between France and Germany is basically what prevents the rest of the continent from going to war with itself, and despite recent developments the French Republic is still an ideal to strive for. Plenty relevant, I should think.
So long live the frogs I say.
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>>140147353
Simple, just portray the JSDF as they what they really are, the IJA's successor and have they act like how their predecessor did.
>Attack Pearl Harbor again because the US president dares to tell Japan to share information about the Gate
>Kill all the men in the empire's capital as a contest between soldiers and rape all the women, making them comfort women
>Reestablish Unit 731 to try all sort of sadistic experiments on the Gate people
>And so on
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>>140170370

I meant politically, the recent developments in Syria having our yoghurt of a President isolated. But as I have alredy been banned fot /pol/ shit on /a/, I will not engage further in that discussion.
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>>140155740
>Mind control magic
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>>140170638
Yeah, let's ask the charred remains of everyone who ever dared oppose a firedragon before how well that worked out for them.
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>>140158995
>6.)the 2 previous prime ministers mulled on how simple minded are the citizens and the politicians. because the civilians and liberals want no involvement and want US to handle the SR situation. If the US or any other country needs to set up a FOB in the SR, they need to be supported by bases on the other side of the gate, which means Tokyo would be occupied by other countries and the people would be basically kicked out of their own country. and this would pose sovereignty issues and the civilians dont realize the gravity of this issue
This is utterly rubbish. The US army used to station in the capital of many countries, like Saigon, Kabul and Baghdad. The host countries had no problem with it and the citizens even love the army more than their own.
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>>140170638
still less range when a howitzer can hit you from 14 km away.

even the half-elf traitor who taught forbidden to humans magic for the empire (granted second class citizenship for this) failed to approach the alnus hill for sleep magic/mind control/ elemental magic
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>>140163977
Kuri was originally part of Itami's harem in the WN.
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>>140169855
>>>/tumbler/
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>>140170939
I dont think US would be welcome in Tokyo since especially since 1955 started the silent anger at US when US soldiers kidnap Yumiko Nagayama and raped and killed her, and the soldier got away with it.

in short, the author alludes it to what is happening in Okinawa.
(note that this only archive to 1995, but crimes committed by US soldiers stationed in Okinawa still goes on today unpunished)

http://www.uchinanchu.org/history/list_of_crimes.htm

http://www.uchinanchu.org/history/list_of_crimes.htm
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>>140157423
>bankroll the japs
I doubt the US would just bankroll the japs, I think it would at least be a joint force of US and nip soldiers, with the US doing the commanding.

the nips would have no choice but to give into these demands because the nip populac is rather pacifistic as protests to the change in their constitution can attest.

personally I would support japan changing their constitution in a way that allows them to threaten war. japan has the 3rd largest economy, it can put out a substantial military force, but more importantly it offering to protect its friends would mean that countries like south korea would have no choice but to suck up to japan. and this sucking up would boost relations and the nips could exert more influence.

war is just another means of negotiations in the long run.

but then again for that to work japan would have to somehow quench pacifistic movements in its borders.
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>>140170939
what is even more important is the economic boost US bases give to the country hosting them. it is no accident that the US base is in the middle of a city in Okinawa. it provided both jobs and consumers for the locals which in turn made the island flourish.

this is why I was and am 100% for my country, ukraine, to join nato; because hopefully nato bases would be built on ukrainian soil, boosting the economy.
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>>140172453
As long as you don't join the EU
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>>140170413
If that's the case, then we should portray the Chinese as land grabbing, cash scamming assholes.
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>>140172453
>Don't afraid of Putin and his ruskie empire plan
I hope next time you post here, you can still call yourself an Ukrainian, anon.
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>>140135878
>Both sides should be adapting and researching like their lives depended on it.
The pre industrial world will not have a dedicated faction of their army that will only try to do research.

It also depends on how far using magic has stretched. If Anti Missile Magic is strong enough, the army is immune to artillery, barrages and supressing fire.
Not that it will change anything, it will just change the operation procedure into using more land mines, using anti air against ground vehicles, and charging with tanks.
But if magic has stretched far enough, there is a good chance the fantasy world will do the stomp. Even more so its its a DND world, where humans with powerlevels exist.
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>>140172579
I personally wouldn't mind a better Ukraine joining the EU. Just not as-is.
After the Ukraine improves, we can okay the treaty and just kick the cheeseheads off of the continent. Let them set up shop in South Africa or something.
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>>140172778
I doubt even DnD world magic can stand up against modern weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-UCtI9-mM0


This fucker can launch 105 mm HE shells faster than a tank can, from the air, 5 km away from the target
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>>140172975
The AC-130 isn't relevant in an actual conflict between two Great Powers.
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>>140144963
I agree a little. GATE has 2 core concepts. Diplomancy & Stomping
There is some adventure in there too, but its overshadowed quite bad.
The only part of GATE that is well written, is the Diplomacy part. Politics sorta is well written because its a bundle alongside Diplomacy.
The rest of gate is SHIT.
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>>140173058
If the empire has DnD level magic, then it would make sense then to deploy at least one of these babies.

they also serve as an awac

but the point is, even DnD level magic is still pointless when humanity has invented weapons like TOWs that can peirce 1meter of reinforced armor, ICBMs, and many more terrifying weapons, and we are still talking about weapons approved by Geneva convention
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>>140172579
hehehehe
>>140172678
I doubt putin would ever launch a full scale invasion of ukraine for even without US armament it was shown that an invasion of ukraine would be costly as fuck. I remember the battle for illovisk(which ukraine lost). russian populous was rather upset because the russian battalions sent across the border (in order to surround the ukrainian army from the south) took rather heavy causalities even though they were armored battalions.

though the ukrainian army not having proper anti armor weaponry did cause novoasovsk to fall. this was all in late august 2014, it lead to the first minsk agreement on september 5 2014.
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>>140093577
My main complaint was a shit main character and the fact that a character like OP should've been a villain they had to overcome, not a fucking ally excuse for a not-Loli.

I WANTED a show like this but even I acknowledge you need some sort of real threat, something the other side has that's nothing our military would be used to. Something that mandates a slight deviation in how we deal with the problem.

If Rory was pretty much a high-speed human tank I want to see people having to employ anti-tank rifles and trying to fucking precision airstrike a single person because they're THAT FUCKING DEADLY. It's more fun when both sides have to pull out their hardcore shit to adapt to the deadliest aspects of their opponents. In her case it'd be anyone in relatively close range essentially being dead, in the military's case it'd be the fact that they DO have the firepower to kill her, just have to get lucky and actually hit her with enough of it at once. And if she's legit immortal and gets back up, that makes her even more of a legit threat that all the guns in the world can't really deal with.
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>>140172975
A level 10 pure martial class is already halfway immortal in combat. Thats how silly D&D power levels are, when deconstructed.

Remember: Normal people have 4-10 hp, a AC of 12, and +0 to hit. Even with a automatic weapon, that won't change shit once you bring in power levels.
Some asshole with a chain whip, something to boost AC, 10 levels and cleave would be perfectly capable of cleaving a modern day army apart until they bring in heavy air support.

After all, DNDs greatest weakness is not warfare, is that not all enchantments are equal. A flat universal -5 damage reduction would be enough to negate anything short of direct hit of large bombs, because shrapnel is what it is.
Warfare inside DnD is done with no consideration of its mechanic, which means a DnD army will work very odd.
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>>140173426
so your complaing is that you came for the dakka and typical one army vs other but you got lolz adventure in parallel Okinawa?
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>>140173662
I had a friend tell me there'd be no real tension to the fights when the odds are incredibly in the JSDF's favor.

I eventually dropped it for other things, but I will say he was absolutely right and I have no idea why there weren't times where they had to resort to more drastic solutions to a problem.

I love Dakka, I loved the concept of this show, and I still want to see it executed correctly. I still think you totally should have something that, by virtue of getting away with working so illogically compared to how a standard engagement goes down, requires the military to do something unorthodox.
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>>140173635
>>140173635
only if the real world operates on turn based battle.

In reality, even before the monk reaches alnus hill, he would be blasted away already by 120 HE shells from 5km away (the JSDF was really generous since they let the armies near 5km, when they can blast the unified kingdoms from 15 km away)

even if survives that because he has somehow +40 luck, he wouldnt survive rifle barrages
and 762ers would pierce alot of things. would blow holes on to anything short of someone wearing .5 inches of reinforced steel. .50 would just make a mess of bloods and guts, and they would do it from half a mile away
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>>140102937
The US instigated Pearl Harbor and wanted it to happen. Don't put the blame all on the Japs.
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>>140174076
The most common cause of death is shrapnel, not direct hits.
Which is why somebody sacrificing themselves on grenades work: Because the persons body will absorb the sharpnel.

And that is the problem: What do you do if you can't damage the person, feats like "reflect arrow" exists, and he wears mild magic gear granting immunity to sharpnel.
You now removed the normal way of killing a person.
And because AC is what it is, and so is reflex saves, there won't be direct hits. And indirect heats don't deal damage due DR being a thing.

So how would a modern army deal with it? They would take advantage of how small their supply line is, retreat and try everything.
It might turn out the warriors lack resistance to exotic damage sources like Sonic.
Or the magic army don't have enough wizards to Rope Trick the frontline into resting.
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>>140174076
>the JSDF was really generous since they let the armies near 5km, when they can blast the unified kingdoms from 15 km away
In the story when a senator asked Itami how far the artillery/mortars could reach, he gave a low balled number. So it seems the JSDF is intentionally not using the maximum range of their artillery because it is an advantage to not let the Empire know the limits of their guns.
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>>140172778
>But if magic has stretched far enough, there is a good chance the fantasy world will do the stomp. Even more so its its a DND world, where humans with powerlevels exist.
The issue is if you let magic go that far, then you would no longer have any need for men in metal armour and swords. And if that happens you no longer have fantasy.
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>>140174629
Fanatsy doesn't require metal armor and swords. Also, in DnD the metal armor and swords still exist, even though they are outclassed by high-level magic.
Since not everyone can be a strong mage.
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>>140135878
>Codex Alera
Who knew that there were actually people with taste in a GATE thread?
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>>140174629
That you have a level 18 mage, sent by God, somewhere in the ruling class, do not mean you can field that.
It just means a "army" can be 10-20 monks with a few levels, and some enchanted gear.
It doesn't change anything, because industrialization is a completely different beast than epic magic.
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>>140169855
>They are also too racist, sexist and xenophobic for a first world nation that I don't even know why they're considered one.
What does any of that have to do with being a First World Nation?
First World were just the developed nation NATO allies in the Cold War. It's an obsolete phrase.
The japs have a developed economy, and are still allied with the West, so they are First World.
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>>140174400
feats like "deflect arrow" is pointless because arrows are not bullets.

also, in the battle of alnus hill, you can see explosions mid air so its more of HEI than pure HE shells, so they will be killed by fire and not shrapnels.

this will be like DnD people will try to fight an army using weapons and equipments that has like increase all stats by 20000, ignore defense, always will hit, hits will always be critical, increase action points by 400000.
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>>140174513
thats the mortar, but back at the alnus base, they have howitzers that has max range of 15 km, and they still havent shown the senators their tanks and helicopters
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>>140175082
>He thinks a weapon with just 8000N is powerful once magic powergaming munchkins comes around
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>>140093577
At a tactical operational level the novel is very stupid, which lends itself to accusations of propaganda. Waltz in waltz out, like American action movies in the 90s, which were criticized to the point they don't exist anymore so don't give me the whole 'it's just Japan doing it you people have a problem with'.
At a higher level, the characterization of the Japanese virtues their enemies dastardliness is on the level of 50s newsreels, which also lends itself to accusations of propaganda.
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>>140175082
It works against ranged attacks, not just arrows despite the name.
The problem would be it's still too limited to help you against bullet spam.
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>>140175387
or maybe its showing how warfare conducted now is different in medieval times

and how peoples values in medieval times are barbaric or grim in medieval times compared to our society today (Tuka thought that they were going to have to sell themselves for food, granted it still happens, with UN incident in Congo, but it rarely happens with a first world military)

It just happens that the writer wrote JSDF as stars because he is a Japanese
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>>140175466
even then, the JSDF would be, if playing in DnD terms will be level 1 soldiers but equipped with guns that has increase stats by 5000000, ignore enemy defense, ignore enemy buffs, increase ac by 1000000, guaranteed hit, guaranteed critical
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>>140175697
You never played DnD, did you?
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>>140173186
Oh come on. The firedragon arc was awesome. And what about the senate bombing scene? Just to name two examples of ‘the rest of Gate’ being awesome.
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>>140175767
nope, im more of shadowrun, but dropped trpg decades ago

but still in the end it will be like DnD enemies trying to fight JSDF but DnD ruleset doesnt apply to JSDF, but instead DnD will have to fight by using JSDF ruleset, like active time battle, rifles will blow a hole in anything short of .5 cm reinforced steel. weapons ignore your stats and defense
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>>140173635
That D&D's game mechanics are shoddy is no secret. One of the main causes of D&D campaigns ending and people starting over is that something or someone has become so horrendously overpowered that the players cannot figure out how to fix it and make the game fun again, so opt to start over instead.
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>>140176165
DnD rulesets can cover a lot of things
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>>140175387
>their enemies dastardliness
Have you been paying attention? Not all enemies are dastardly, not all enemies remain enemies, and not all dastardly enemies remain dastardly.
Furthermore, insofar as the enemies do behave like utter bastards, this is in fact historically accurate. We have forgotten as a culture what war used to be like. Possibly this is a good thing.
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>>140176660
yes, but basically, the DnD ruleset will go out of the window when they face JSDF as it is using its own ruleset

probably with an additional rule that the player when his character is shot by a gun, he has to roll 2 20 sided dice and get specifically 5 or else his character is dead.
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>>140122538
I'll agree about the weakness of the VMF at the time, but

>Russia had no training in beach assaults or amphibious warfare

is horseshit.
They have quite a good record of many amphibious operations during WW2, and if most of them were at a small scale (company or battalion), there was a large landing launched to liberate Crimea from the German occupation.

Plus, the sea isn't the only way to reach Japan. The Soviet Union had 100 000 trained paratroopers IN 1935. They literally invented aerial envelopment, and both France and Germany had their first paratroopers trained by the Soviets in the 30s. Combine that with the mass of transport planes given by the Lend Lease program, and you have an idea of how the Red Army could get its feet in mainland Japan. And once you control a port, it's easy to bring in the tanks.

Plus, bot h amphibious and airborne ops were used with success in August 1945, during Operation August Storm, which saw the top 60% of the IJA crushed in three weeks in Manchuria by a proto "air land" Soviet assault. Fun fact, this operation was taken as an example for Desert Storm in 1991.
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>>140176165
It would end with Level 1 Commoners with a bunch of feats using weapons, and having some AC bonus from their military armor.
It would still end poorly, when normal people die to shrapnel and bleeding out.
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>>140176841
Why would it go out of the Window? This isn't Windows XP.
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>>140176932
Basically, they would be level 1 JSDF soldiers with class exclusive weapon guns

and they basically have a class exclusive skill called "guns kill everything" where they will automatically cast it every turn, and gives them feats like first strike, guaranteed hit, ignore defense.
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>>140176985
Not him, but based on my experience with D&D, the game mechanics don't scale well when characters get more powerful. Apparently D&D was optimised for short campaigns because when levels rise too high you tend to get results that none of the players like or think realistic.
Another problem is that D&D was not designed with modern weaponry in mind. So if you want to emulate an assault rifle in D&D you cannot do so by just making up some stats; the results won't be realistic no matter what you choose. You have to invent ad hoc rules, hence leave D&D.
Yet another problem that I can think of is that D&D wasn't optimised for lots of attacks happening in close succession. It was meant for turn-based combat where a turn takes a few seconds, everybody gets to deliberate about and react to everything, and so on. This is not even a realistic description of what storming a mediaeval fortress was like.
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>>140177373
In DND, a first level NPC has a 50% chance to hit another 1st level creature. With ANY weapon.
Thats pretty good accuracy, even for something like a AK47, with its gazillion rounds per minute.
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>>140141063
That was you, gaijin. Fool American.
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>>140095868
>>140116781
>>140132071
America baited glorious Dai-Nippon Teikoku. Transfer of Pacific Fleet was act of aggression against Showa-tennou! Bad American-san!
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>>140172453

The [problem with a NATO Ukraine is that the Russiasn would see it as an existential threat literally on their borders, and that would give the right wing in Russia a boost, and say what you will about Putin, he isn't insane. But someone else who fears an enemy literally on Russia's doorstep? That could mean a lot of trouble.
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>>140181623
this is true putin has indeed bolstered xenophobic tendencies in the russian populous, and they may indeed pose a problem as you say, but 1. nato is already on russia's borders

2. nato has an official policy by which a 3rd party cannot influence a state in joining(or not joining) the alliance

3.the reason why most of russia's niegbors seek to join the alliance is because they see russia as an existential threat. partly(or maybe mostly) due to its military adventurism.

mmmm I can't come up with any more reasons at the moment but I am sure there are more.
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>>140179661
>pretty good accuracy
Whether I agree depends on a number of factors, not least the distance involved and the size of the target.
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>>140093577
Because anime originated form Japan.
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>>140093577
Aren't actually the slice-of-life shows the *real* Japanese propaganda? ‘Look how wonderful our schools are, your kids will have a million friends, the clubs are fun and not hard work at all, honest, and we will totally not transform them into corporate drones and shit them out should our mission fail.’
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