Why didn’t the Japanese adopt guns earlier? If they did, then they wouldn’t have lost WW2.
>>221117680I've watched the anime back when I was a kid. Is the movie any good? The gatling scene is one of the few things I remember.
>>221117696The first three live-action films are great, the ones they made after that are just okay.
Depresses me that the author is a nonce. I grew up watching/reading kenshin
>>221117982Everybody in Japan is a pedo.
Japan's military technology wasn't the issue in WWII. Their navy utterly humiliated England's, who had dominated the seas for the past century. Their downfalls were spreading themselves too thin in Manchuria, and making enemies out of the two worst countries to take on. The Soviets, with their massive army, and the USA, whose industry complex was far beyond what anyone dreamed of.But as for why they didn't adopt guns earlier, during the late Sengoku period, around the late 1500's, there was a bit of an arms race where warlords were in a rush to buy as many guns and foreign mercenaries to train them in their use as possible. It started with Nobunage, and continued until Tokugawa finally united the nation. And Tougawa decided that having the country so dependent on foreign militaries was basically handing the entire nation over to whatever nation decided to tug on their strings. Plus, he wanted to pull up the ladder so no one could challenge him. So he banned all forms of foreign influence, including firearms. That's why Japan was stuck in a technological stasis while the rest of the world had an industrial revolution.
>>221117982He isn’t tho. It was 15 yo soft core gravure that was sold legally but they changed the law iirc. It’s a step above getting arrested for owning Pretty Baby
>>221117680The Japs did adopt guns pretty early, since they aren't retarded. It's just that the government was paranoid and maintained very tight control over them, so there weren't many in the country.
>>221117960Thought the second one had the usual adaptation problems where they had to try and cram way too much shit into too short a run time, but the third one made up for it. Haven't seen the other ones though, because I can't tell what the fucking order I'm supposed to watch them is with how retarded the names are.
>>221117960There is NO world where the live adaptation of Trust/Betrayal was 'great' It was so fucking horrible.
>>221117680>Why didn’t the Japanese adopt guns earlier?They did. They started using them like crazy once the Portuguese sold them rifles in the mid 1500s. Fast forward about 40 to 60 years later at the battle of Sekigahara in 1600, over 1/3 of the ENTIRE WORLD'S collective firearms (pistols, rifles and cannons) were used at that battle.>If they did, then they wouldn’t have lost WW2.Irrelevant of when. They lost because someone else developed the atomic bomb.
>>221118156>In November 2017, police found DVDs with footage of naked girls in their early teens in Watsuki's Tokyo office. Tokyo Police raided Watsuki's home as part of an investigation into the purchase of child pornography. The search uncovered about a hundred child pornography DVDs.[24][25] He was referred to prosecutors over possession of child pornography on November 21.[26][27] The serialization of Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc was put on hiatus after the details of Watsuki's charges were made public.[28][29] In February 2018, Watsuki was fined ¥200,000 (about US$1,900).[30] The Hokkaido Arc resumed serialization in June 2018.[31][32]
>>221118900TL note: he was collecting legally produced rookie gravure
>>221118121>Japan's military technology wasn't the issue in WWII. Yes it was. The Japanese were dysfunctional and only won earlier in the war by taking everyone by surprise.The Japanese had 2 to 3 dozen firearm manufacturers. Each using their own standard and bullets. This was horrible for repairs and resupply. A Japanese soldier could be surrounded by dozens boxes of bullets but his rifle can't fire them because it's the wrong bullet. The Japanese didn't standardize, and soldiers had to run around with multiple rifles and weapons. Ridiculous.>Their navy utterly humiliated England's, who had dominated the seas for the past century. The Japanese Navy never fought the English Navy in a large scale fleet battle in the Pacific. The UK kept almost all their ships in Europe to fight the Germans. The U-Boats were considered more of a threat. Asia and India were considered far less important. So the English only sent a tiny handful of ships to Asia. The only large scale naval battles the Japanese fought were against the Americans. And the Americans kicked their ass hard in head-on combat. Every large major navy battle the Japanese lost.The Japanese Navy had problems. They build massive ships like the Yamato with 18 inch guns, but they had no radar and couldn't aim the guns accurately. The Japanese fighter planes were fast and nimble, but lacked armor or self sealing fuel tanks. So even a bullet from a pistol could cause the entire plane to explode in a fireball if the bullet hit the fuel system. The Japanese army was a World War 1 army with no tanks, and the Japanese had a "half-baked" World War 2 Navy. Enough to bully less developed Asian countries, but not nearly enough to fight against other developed countries.
I don't watch anime like almost at all, but I love Kenshin. These live action movies were great. Best I've seen when it comes to animation to live action
