Just as Japan expands into the awareness of the Western world, to the point where we here today read and write reviews of their popular and sub cultural artistic productions, without a single gun being pointed at our heads to make us do so, so the same happens in this anime with the JSDF and their Arnus fortress base. The last season had a little bit of this, but this season will give you a lot more stuff to compare and contrast with. The Cultural influence and vitality of Japan is contrasted with the naked expansionism and force of the Pseudo Roman Empire as well as modern day powers on Earth, the US or China. That's how you get your toe stuck in the doorway, for the rest of your army, one way or another. The way the JSDF also sets up a humanitarian/spy outpost in the red light district is interesting and impressive even, on a professional level. It won't happen for a few more episodes, yet, however. It makes it slightly more satisfying when the hammer of righteous firepower drops in on the antagonists, so to speak. They may choose to avoid showing the later scenes, due to budget or lack of attention, but the first episode here at least had the right style.Ī great introduction to the decadence and moral degradation of this pseudo Roman "Empire", the JSDF is facing. This will have further consequences down the line, as it will setup an interesting event later on. In that way, they can stay true to the atmosphere of the original source and also maintain their mainstream tv guidelines. Now we have one of the chief "proto" villains, who is abusing a bunny warrior in his bedroom, all naked, but behind a very well done "veneer" or "facade" of silk, so that only their outlines are seen. They did well with the throat cutting in the first season's episode, but failed when it came to the siege warfare when hostages were used to get the defenders out of their defensive lines. I made a note in the last review that they were avoiding dealing with this manga original source's grim/dark/grit atmosphere, because they didn't know how to show it in an appropriate context for mainstream audiences. Looking at how they did with the first episode of the second season of the JSDF Gate anime, it seems they took the problem with the previous season into direct account.
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