Are WW2 Anime Historically Accurate? 

I still had to do a lot of research for this as there was plenty I was unfamiliar with haha

Wouldnt expect anything less from the youtube Aleister 👌

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True, sometimes its needed to tell a better story, but at the same time I think its important to try and at least make the period authentic as a setting otherwise you lose the immersion it may have. Either way I think its interesting to compare.

@@AeonofHorus one story that I think does this well is record of Ragnarok which is a manga about a tournament between the 12 strongest humans from history and from mythology and a 12 strongest gods from various religions having a tournament to decide to fate of humanity and the fights are really cool because even when you know about the characters from history from mythology you don't know how they'll fight in record of Ragnarok because there's also some differences which adds some spice to the story I highly recommend you reading it I think it would also make for a great video.

lmao, thanks

Kliemt?

China should make one about Nanking.

I think there is

@@GaionSputronah that would make too much controversy

Yeah seems like it

Yeaaah, live is complex. But if fighting for the axis or not is a moral dilemma, you need the run time of a mini series to really put up a good argument, that doesnt make you look like ultra nationalist revanchist. I mean, against the sowjets, that would bring up some intersting dilemmas. Storytelling wise an accurate depiction of japan would be awful. There are no real stories of heroism or skill in the japanese armie of ww2. And the early successes against the european colonies and outpost, wasnt that much of a challenge and are inevitable linked to atrocities every regime would be ashamed of. Eastern front was..."tough"...but there was at least some underlying respect for the skills and tenacity of the other side. Making no prisoners, if you dont have ressources to feed your own people is one thing. Massacaring and torturing wounded soldiers in hospitals and yeeah the nurses...is another level. The main ironie is that, after declaring that surrendering under any circumstance rids you of any honour and humanity and then surrendering yourselve and still put yourselve in a victim position is very bold.

Japan suck at ww2

Nice

Rasputin is a magician in Index so it makes sense

This ain’t some misha krucshev shit man, unless it is?

So are German Nazi Vampires, just don't tell anybody 🤫

Interesting insight, I watched an interview with one of the producers and he did mention there were a lot of cultural references in the film that Russian people would understand and I guess thats one of them. Thanks for the comment :^)

@@AeonofHorus thanks you for trying to deconstruct the subtext in animes. I like that very much.

Uhhh putin propaganda Anything you dont like that goes against your dumb narrative is propaganda to you

seems like it at times lol

Thanks a lot! I sure hope so, definitely planning to do more vids like this if the interest is there :)

Thats one of the anime I've got lined up for part 2 :P

@@AeonofHorus 😂🤣.

Nahhh not here haha

Believe Battle Tendency happened before the start of WW2, and yeah it actually happened 👀

Not really but I've never played the VN

@@AeonofHorus Yeah but have you seen any of the anime?

@@danielgrezda3339 I've seen zero and FSN UBW. I thought Zero was decent but didn't enjoy UBW.

Thanks for the suggestion! If I do a part 2 I'll cover it :)

@@AeonofHorus what I find most fascinating is how the Russians are portrayed in it. Whenever the Japanese actually interact with the Russians, they aren’t portrayed as a barbaric enemy, but just kind hearted people. Even in scenes like when the soldiers first storm the island, they weren’t portrayed as merciless barbarians, but just people.

That one wasn't about the Nazis, since there are plenty of anime that take inspiration from Prussia or Imperial Germany, but glad you like it :^)

@@AeonofHorus what i mean is they both are correlated to ww2

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Definitely, that's something I'd like to explore with Index in a video as OT especially takes a lot of historical inspiration with it's politics

The central stripe doesn't look yellow at all, it looks white, although yeah it has black which isn't on the French flag either. The way I said the word "French" was me trying to question what the hell that flag actually is, if anything it looks like the Imperial Germany flag lol with red, black and white. Either way idk why they showed this flag along with the moving troops arrows as that basically implies they are affiliated with said flag. Belgium didn't really have an army after the occupation.

@@AeonofHorus I must disagree with you on it not looking yellow, but white. I just went through and colour picked the central stripe in photoshop, and it's listed as being #aba672, which went googled, shows itself being on the yellow hue. Granted, youtube might've fucked with it and the original verison is different

But yeah, there shouldn't be a flag there at all unless it's nazi soldiers reinforcing Warsaw, but used the belgian flag to represent the 2 belgian SS divisions? entire scenario is weird tho

@@MoonyRuney I must be colour blind then. Still stupid it decides to highlight a country that wasn't of any importance in 1944 while also showing troop movement arrows next to it. Not that France had much of an impact either at that time, but still more than Belgium.

That's 100% Belgium

No worries haha, thank you!

If it follows the trend of my German vid, then it will!

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Thats on the list for part 2, if I make it :P

Depends how much they want to implement realism and stay authentic to the period. Grave of the Fireflies for example is pretty historically accurate.

@@AeonofHorus Honestly I've really never been interested in anime but if there was a completely historic retelling of something like WW2 then I'd love it. I was just never really a fan of the anime girls or the weird dialogue and fiction writing. I'm more interested in history than fiction.

@@AeonofHorus If you could make a part 2 with more historical animes then I would definitely watch it by the way.

@@visassess8607 Yeah thats fair, honestly depends which anime you do watch as a lot of anime do get a bad rep for being weird or plastering cute girls everywhere, but there are definitely more mature ones that exist. Nice! Thank you :)

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@@AeonofHorus but to be fair ,Grave of fireflies definitely touched the heart. Truly a sad film and historical accurate

​@@hmhm6659 Tae Guk Gi better!

I've not seen it yet but I'll definitely check it out if I make a part 2 for this video!

@@AeonofHorus Might as well add 'The Cockpit' OVA to the list. It has plenty of fictional/alternative timeline elements mixed in (especially ep1), but those dogfights scenes are top notch.

As far as I am aware there was a weapons shortage in the early stages of the asf in 1941, not as bad as it was for Russia in WWI though

It was Sortage of Artilery and Anti tank Guns for sure, but most common Weaponds by 1941 is Mosin Nagant and PPD-40/PPsH-41 maily used by standard Infrantry while oficers used either Nagant M1895 or Tokarev TT44, Maxim M1910 is really common but only in MG brigades.

@@AeonofHorus Paraphrasing from David M. Glantz's ''Operation Barbarossa : Hitler's invasion of Russia, 1941'', and ''To the gates of Stalingrad : Soviet-German combat operations, April-August 1942''. D.M. Glantz notes on multiple occasions that Soviet Rifle brigades and divisions did not lack small arms such as rifles. Rather these formations, especially the newer ones as the pre-war formations were either destroyed or badly mauled, lacked specialized equipment such as radios, anti-tank/aircraft guns, artillery and competent staff officers.

Well... Apart from the zombies!

@@AeonofHorus yeah zombies and multiplayer aint part of the campaign so you are right.