Just like it says on the tin, after about ten years, they're going to release Season 2.

Sadly, Rory won't be in this one.

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I had never heard of this before, so I looked it up. Interesting premise. I saw a clip showing that in this series, "dragonrider vs. AH-1" goes about like any reasonable person would expect, as does "Roman shield wall vs. general-purpose machine gun," which pleased me.

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>I had never heard of this before, so I looked it up. Interesting
>premise. I saw a clip showing that in this series, "dragonrider vs.
>AH-1" goes about like any reasonable person would expect, as does
>"Roman shield wall vs. general-purpose machine gun," which pleased me.

It's one of those cases of fun concept, neat series, but VERY problematic creator.

Long and short of it, he's a Japanese ultranationalist who's of the "Japan did nothing wrong and the West attacked and enslaved us because they feared our power" stripe.

>Long and short of it, he's a Japanese ultranationalist who's of the
>"Japan did nothing wrong and the West attacked and enslaved us because
>they feared our power" stripe.

*sigh*

And so it goes after every war, for generations and generations. There are probably still Bonapartists in modern France who are sore at the English and Hesse for Waterloo.

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>>I had never heard of this before, so I looked it up. Interesting
>>premise. I saw a clip showing that in this series, "dragonrider vs.
>>AH-1" goes about like any reasonable person would expect, as does
>>"Roman shield wall vs. general-purpose machine gun," which pleased me.
>
>It's one of those cases of fun concept, neat series, but VERY
>problematic creator.
>
>Long and short of it, he's a Japanese ultranationalist who's of the
>"Japan did nothing wrong and the West attacked and enslaved us because
>they feared our power" stripe.

It's one of the most memed about recent-ish series in existence for a reason and actually deserves all the hate, compared to something like SAO.

On top of wanting another crack at a Japanese Empire, there's other hilarious stuff like
1) Japan shutting every other nation out of the GATE so they can monopolize everything, which leads to multiple nations sending in not-that-deniable special forces on hot missions to try and gain access to the GATE side diplomatic envoys later on, who then either kill each other off and are then finished off or are beaten directly by the JSDF because Japan stronk depending on which adaptation version it is
2) The questionably useful Knight order of underage and borderline-of-age female nobles led by the Imperial princess is basically there only to get married off to all of the old 40+ year old Japanese officers when they decide to start settling down and carving up the place.

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I call stuff like this and AMAIM 'NIPPON BANZAI' shows because they're dedicated to nothing other than wanking ultra-nationalist wet dreams of Japanese boomers and the younger people they're trying to indoctrinate with their vicious bile, to carry on a legacy of hate.

Must we have a thread about this? I can't see this going anywhere good.

Now, there's always going to be some element of "hometown pride" as it were, but yeah, GATE is one of Those Types. Which is really too bad because it IS a good anime. But cripes the original author.

There's a manga that I'm reading that has the entirety of Japan, land and all, transported to another world, where numerous other countries have been brought from across the multiverse at various points in its history. Where the manga is now, Japan seems to have the highest general technological level of the countries that still interact with anybody (and possibly still exist). There's no sign of it getting an anime any time soon, unfortunately. It's called Nihonkoku Shoukan.

In other formats of Japanese exceptionally- of a sort - we have Outbreak Company, which has Japan very quietly trying to achieve a Cultural Victory a la Civilization be introducing manga, anime, food, education, etc, to the fantasy world, precisely because they know they can't defend the singular gate to the other world from other countries and are hoping to have a significant foothold in the other world before anyone else notices.

>
>In other formats of Japanese exceptionally- of a sort - we have
>Outbreak Company, which has Japan very quietly trying to achieve a
>Cultural Victory a la Civilization be introducing manga, anime, food,
>education, etc, to the fantasy world, precisely because they know they
>can't defend the singular gate to the other world from other countries
>and are hoping to have a significant foothold in the other world
>before anyone else notices.
>

In my head, this goes wrong by turning the entire fantasy world into basement dwellers. ("We tried to export our culture, and ended up turning them into hikikomori?!" "Yes, sir." "Even the women?!" "Especially the women.")

Peter Eng
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as a distraction from All The Yikes in the other comments, I'm tempted to make a (dark) joke about the "general purpose" of a machine gun.

>as a distraction from All The Yikes in the other comments, I'm tempted
>to make a (dark) joke about the "general purpose" of a machine gun.

Dark jokes aside, the phrase does have a technical meaning. A GPMG is kind of the machine gun equivalent of a "main battle tank" - a system flexible enough to replace a wide range of earlier, more specialized types. In GPMGs' case, that means taking up most of the tactical niches formerly filled by light and medium MGs, making them obsolete (much as MBTs did to medium and heavy tanks).

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>Dark jokes aside, the phrase does have a technical meaning. A GPMG is
>kind of the machine gun equivalent of a "main battle tank" - a system
>flexible enough to replace a wide range of earlier, more specialized
>types. In GPMGs' case, that means taking up most of the tactical
>niches formerly filled by light and medium MGs, making them obsolete
>(much as MBTs did to medium and heavy tanks).

Yeah, GPMG is more job descriptor than anything else, as most can swing between roles depending upon what the commanders need at the time. Heavy enough in both size and mass to handle sustained fire from an emplaced position, but light enough that (in theory) the machine gunner can lug the gun and its ammo into battle unassisted. Like MBT, it's an artifact of the effort by bureaucrats and generals alike to make sense of the change in warfare between WWI and the Cold War.

Then there's the utter nonsense that is modern naval classifications.

What's a Frigate? Anything not impressive enough to be called a Destroyer.
What's a Destroyer? Anything not impressive enough to be called a Cruiser.
What's a Cruiser? ¯＼(º_o)/¯

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>Then there's the utter nonsense that is modern naval classifications.
>
>What's a Frigate? Anything not impressive enough to be called a
>Destroyer.
>What's a Destroyer? Anything not impressive enough to be called a
>Cruiser.
>What's a Cruiser? ¯＼(º_o)/¯

The list usually goes corvette/frigate/destroyer/cruiser with the official distinction being tonnage and the unofficial distinction being a particular country's current political climate. Examples of the latter include the US Navy solving its "cruiser gap" with the Soviet Navy by reclassifying its larger destroyers as "cruisers" in '75, the Soviet Navy classifying the Kiev and Kuznetsov carriers as "aviation cruisers" because to hell with the Montreux Convention, and the PLA Navy labeling their ships whatever sounds the most impressive on any given day.

>the latter include the US Navy solving its "cruiser gap" with the
>Soviet Navy by reclassifying its larger destroyers as "cruisers" in
>'75

This always amuses me, because it leads to the odd situation where the Ticonderoga-class cruisers are commanding Arleigh Burke-class destroyers that are larger and pack the same amount of firepower.

Also, going by the last time anybody wrote down definitions (London Naval Treaty of 1930), the Zumwalts are Light Cruisers due to their 155mm guns.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>This always amuses me, because it leads to the odd situation where the
>Ticonderoga-class cruisers are commanding Arleigh Burke-class
>destroyers that are larger and pack the same amount of firepower.

Oh no, the Ticos were a whole different kettle of fish altogether, the end result of the sort of budgetary shenanigans that basically every book on modern military history could just write off "It was the 70s, man!" They were originally meant to be a "cheap" platform for the introduction of AEGIS to the fleet by copying the hull of the Spruance class, only for the bean-counters to kill not one but two cruiser designs over costs. So Adm. Zumwalt crammed the flagship facilities of those two designs into the Tico and dubbed it a "cruiser," then signed off on the development of the Burke class as the new "cheap" destroyer design.

>Also, going by the last time anybody wrote down definitions (London
>Naval Treaty of 1930), the Zumwalts are Light Cruisers due to their
>155mm guns.

There's a certain sort of sadness is looking at the Zumwalts in the same picture as the Comanche and the F-22, pages in a book of a future that never was because the USSR had to go and just collapse without warning.

>The list usually goes corvette/frigate/destroyer/cruiser with the
>official distinction being tonnage and the unofficial distinction
>being a particular country's current political climate. Examples of
>the latter include the US Navy solving its "cruiser gap" with the
>Soviet Navy by reclassifying its larger destroyers as "cruisers" in
>'75, the Soviet Navy classifying the Kiev and Kuznetsov
>carriers as "aviation cruisers" because to hell with the Montreux
>Convention, and the PLA Navy labeling their ships whatever sounds the
>most impressive on any given day.

Don't forget the JMSDF's aircraft carriers "multi-mission destroyers".

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