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But not as equals; the hound returns to his home with the humans and the fox returns to the wild.
That is how we will heal our racial and socioeconomic differences: by separating ourselves. If only we could institute some kind of "segregation" where all of us could be with our own kind, none of this unpleasantness would happen.
Thanks for showing us the way, Mr. Disney!
|'''[[Cracked.com]]''' on ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)]]''}}
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{{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.
|'''Aquagaze''', ''[http://theglorioblog.com/2014/05/01/the-unfortunate-implications-of-kantai-collection/ The Unfortunate Implications of Kantai Collection]'' (The Glorio Blog)}}
{{quote|"Where other cultures look back at WWII with horror, the Japanese prefer to look away. While Japan's politics around this are sometimes questionable, the people generally deal with disasters by trivializing them, joking about them and, more than anything, looking away. They don't want to forget, but nor do they want to remember - they have enough to deal with in the present, and being aware of the past is enough."|'''technololigy''', on ''Kantai Collection'', in response to the article above, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150405025335/http://wrttn.in/0c540b Criticizing Critism]''}}
{{quote|You did not focus on the [[Fanfic|fan fiction]] of the Game[.] [...]
Instead you put your mind into the war crimes, like as if it is something so uncommon and not special of war, Japan DID commit war crimes and a lot of it. But the game, bro, the game, [[:Category:Did Not Do the Research|is focusing [on] the IJN SHIPs, the ones who did the most war crimes are the IJA]]. IJN sailors are a group of collectives sailors, who in most case like any other sailors do not enjoying killing, they work the ship. Why would that be a problem if you are discussing the game, although it put direct preferences to the war itself, still there were no girls out there dressing up like a ship, skating on water and killing Chinese civies in Nanjing. It is like “Oh hey! The war is over, but since you commit so many war crimes, we have to repeatedly mentioning in every aspect so you can feel bad about it” . Say that to [[George W. Bush]]. IT IS NOT THE SHIPS’ fault, [[:Category:Logical Fallacies|it is like blaming the killer’s knife for the killing.]] The game almost don’t mention their crews or the captain at all, like seriously the captains are mentioned through puns, slangs or name of the fleet.
|'''Hung John''', comment on the first article.}}
{{quote|You’d think by now that KanColle is deliberately trying to trivialize Japanese history by portraying their lethal ships as innocent little girls. But you might be wrong.
There is an interesting (or rather alarming, depending on how you see it) part of the Japanese way of life when faced with tragedies or suffering: suck it up and move on. The Japanese don’t dwell on tragedies like most Western cultures do; they try their best to get back on their feet and let bygones be bygones. Instead of [[War Is Hell|lamenting war]], [[Affectionate Parody|Japanese creators]] [[Satire|satirize war]]. [...] You would not imagine Western media portraying Hitler or Nazi Germany as anything but brutal and diabolical “krauts”. This “trivialization” of war is what pisses people, especially from other cultures. It is unacceptable for a country that forced over 80,000 women into forced prostitution, annexed the Korean Peninsula, and blew up Pearl Harbor to trivialize war. They should feel guilty all the time.
[[Values Dissonance|As you can see, it’s all about clashing cultures.]] Hence, the suspicions.
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Is KanColle a subliminal attempt to revive Japanese militarism and push public opinion towards Japanese rearmament? As enticing as the idea might sound, sadly, no. KanColle is just another product of Japan’s creative industries which is coincidentally based on Japan’s wartime past. There is no hidden agenda or manipulation of public opinion. While the idea of using culture to generate propaganda does exist and has been used, I doubt KanColle falls within that category.
In the end, [[MST3K Mantra|KanColle is just a game]], a product of Japanese pop culture. Let’s leave it at that.
|'''AhOtaku39''', in response to the first article, ''[https://ahotaku39.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/kancolle-homage-to-the-empire/ Kancolle, Homage to the Empire?]''}}
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