Well, it appears the Vice dude is butthurt because the Imperial Japanese Navy are the heroes of the game, a cultural movement which he seems to be comparing with, e.g., neo-Nazism in modern-day central Europe. Personally, I think that's something of a stretch, particularly as the focus seems to be on the ships, not the catastrophically flawed foreign and domestic policy that guided their use.

Also, while I'll acknowledge that the current conservative/militant trend in Japanese politics is unsettling, I rather doubt that Kantai Collection has much of anything to do with it, any more than Pokémon was linked with the sudden demographic spike in zookeepers and circus animal trainers in the '90s.

--G.
n.b. as far as I know I made that last part up
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