Quote:Golly, that summary looks familiar... 8-)
Zipang summary:
When Dave Baranyi sent me that writeup, he also mentioned a bit of background material. (No written notes; sorry.) The show is as accurate as it can be for a time-travel story ( or, more accurately, a close-parallel alternate world story: the crew of the Mirai discover a few minor historical differences that existed before they arrived ) - this means that it's not pretty. What we'd call "war crimes", on both sides, are either mentioned or shown. Even the crew of the Mirai do some morally questionable things in the name of survival. And there's plenty of boredom punctuated with moments of sheer terror, like there is in real-world war.
If your tastes run toward happy stories, avoid this show. (This is not something like Sakura Wars.) If, on the other hand, you'd rather watch the original Gundam than Macross, then you might enjoy Zipang.
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012