The unapologetic propaganda in support of imperialist/colonial occupation forces and theft of natural resources is back.

Guilty pleasure because watching military with guns fight medieval kingdoms and fantasy characters is hilarious… I hear it gets even more unhinged and ultra nationalist. Anyone know if the Japanese military is funding it this time or did someone else fund this one?

  • Skye [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Sounds like the concept would be far more fun if the fantasy world started rapidly developing its own modern military industry from captured tech or whatever and you get all kinds of wacky stuff

    Magically invisible stealth bomber dragons, burrowing tanks built around giant badgers, warlocks cursing you with Havana syndrome

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      Specific scenes were fun. The majority of the show is unhinged. Rory Mercury is the best gothic lolita character design and she belongs in a far better show.

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      You’re better off watching some of the action scenes on YouTube and ignoring the rest. Not only is it problematic, it’s also the most mid isekai shit you’ll ever see. Everything wrong with the genre, you’ll find it in Gate being done excessively.

      I kept hoping it would get better, but it only got worse and worse as it dragged on.

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    Wtf, why who wanted this lmfao. I watched about half the first season and it was an entertaining enough gun-jerk, but I had to tap out when the MC started gaslighting the elf girl character into thinking she was her dead elf father. I wouldn’t call it terrible, but what can you do with “and then the modern military utterly washes the huge midieval military state in minutes” and keep it actually interesting?

    I guess there was that hilarious scene where the spec ops squads of all the big nations were tricked into killing each other by the JSDF spec ops, over possession of the obligatory loli 500 year old goddess, who was a diplomatic guest of Japan at the time.

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        hey lets see what would happen if a modern military fought against a fantasy military that has dragons and orcs

        NOT WITHOUT AN UNDERAGE SCHOOLGIRL HAREM YOU WON’T

        Anime was a mistake. The Magicians did it much better, but was constrained by a live-action budget.

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      but what can you do with “and then the modern military utterly washes the huge midieval military state in minutes”

      Nothing lol it will be more of that but also with significantly more age of consent crap I suspect.

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      I think you’re missing The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace from your list, though it has sexual content that is so abhorrent in parts of it I wouldn’t recommend, unlike gate it’s hard to watch in those parts.

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      Yup that’s why he gets to go to Narnia: he’s the nerdiest nerd who ever nerded and therefore is most qualified to meet with the queen, elves, etc. It’s total wish fulfillment and self-insert slop.

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    You guys could be watching Teogonia instead, where the MC is powered by the god of anti racism

    As soon as a monk guy tells him he’s gotta abandon the totally-not-kokiri people, the MC’s god is in his head going “kill him. Kill him. Kill him. KILL HIM.”