So, prior to this I’m not usually interested in military theme series, but then I give Tanya a watch, and I’m hooked ! I’ve also watched the movie.
After that, I remember 86 and also finish those. The last one I’ve finished was Nippon Sangoku, and now I want more like these. I think it’s related, but I also throw Sentenced to be a Hero having same vibe, though it’s more focus on individual and has much more fantasy flavor setting-wise.
I don’t really care about the interpersonal between the character, I think I just enjoy the campaign/battle theater and the logistic side of the war.
Please throw me some of yours recs ! Thanks
Edit: Still reading the recs you guys give, thanks a lot. But for some more context I’ve watched most of Gundam entries and the usual suspects for space opera so it’s already on my radar. But then again maybe other find it helpful, so I don’t mind.
Might have been that (as far as I can recall, the characters were never in the correct place at the correct time to see most of the evilest stuff), might have been just that the original mangaka was trying for a more nuanced view of the war and so didn’t depict the higher-level Japanese officers as monsters. To be honest, I don’t remember exactly—most of that discussion took place around the time the series first came out.
Oh, might be an interesting watch. My country is actually one of the Japanese colonies, and yeah I have heard one or two genuine hates from older folks about the imperial atrocities, but I think my generation is already far removed from the feeling, so I don’t know how I would react (probably not much lol).
Still weird knowing the US dropping the nuke is what directly “allowed” our independence.