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== When Unfortunate Implications are [[Grey and Gray Morality|not clear...]] ==
{{quote|"Blatantly sexist power fantasies are nothing new in ''[[Otaku|otaku]]'' culture, but there is one thing about ''[[Kantai Collection]]'' that I find a lot more worrying: The ''kanmusu'', cute mascots played for maximum ''waifu'' appeal, are in fact [[Moe Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphised versions of Japanese war ships]] from [[World War II]] <ref>[http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2014/02/20/digital/kantai-collection-social-game-of-warships-sets-course-for-big-money/ Japan Times article]</ref>. You know, that war in which Japan committed countless war crimes. Using these very ships.
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If there’s anyone who gets to call Japan out for their attitudes towards the horrors that took place seventy years ago, it’s the Koreans<ref>[http://www.webcitation.org/6KsbCjElw Hankook Ilbo (Korean editorial)]</ref>, and it’s exactly because ''Kantai Collection'' is something so trivial and detached from any sort of political significance, that its problematic nature merits discussion. It’s little more than a silly browser game, yet for that precise reason it serves as a perfect example of how internalized and institutionalized public denial of Japan’s war crimes has become.
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