/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>16508377
A beautiful ship made for the beautiful open seas.

take it to /k/, newfag

Yes, but it'll be deleted shortly for not being otaku culture.

I visited the Yamato Museum in Kure during my Comiket overstay, they've got a big plaque with the name of everyone who died. There probably wasn't that much I couldn't have learned from more accessible sources but it was interesting to see the videos and artifacts.

>>16508443
>otaku culture
What if I'm a ship otaku?

>>16508413
>>16508443
How is this not otaku culture? Surely, I will assume you do not conceptualize weeaboos as those who are solely interested in the modern entertainament aspect of Japan.

Are your boats cute moe girls?

>>16508513
Definitely not otaku culture, but it would be sad to delete an interesting thread about Japanese boat which is not a retarded "I want to sail on [insert boatslut] butt !"

>>16508516
We can discuss the teikoku kaigun while posting Kancolle if you want. Japan would have done a lot better if the National Diet had listened to Yamamoto from the start.

>>16508377
I personally like the Kongô class. I find them really elegant with their long silhouette and their masts.

I'll always feel sad because the Imperial Navy had some of the most beautiful pieces of naval engineering ever created, which now lay at the bottom of the sea... Pearl Harbor was a mistake...

>>16508572
>Pearl Harbor was a mistake
Americans deserved it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Ships#Gunboat_diplomacy

>>16508608
questions of "who deserved what" are best left for the editorial columns

best to content yourself with analysis of what happened and why rather than trying to pass judgment on things

>>16508608
American were allied with Japan during WW2 before the attacks. French ambassador even thanked Japanese government because the US were neutral before this, and they now had a casus belli against the Axe. Japanese attacking the US by surprise was probably one of the worst military mistakes ever.

History of moe illustration is Otaku Culture™, right? I hope OP wouldn't mind.

>>16508546
Be careful, the touhou autists will lose it when kancolle is present in more than one thread

So here's a small article about cute drawn girls in a military newspaper that sailors would read.

http://acj.sblo.jp/article/64828739.html

Supposedly this is battleship Haruna...

>>16510652
The original kanker.

...and this is heavy cruiser Kumano.

>>16510644
This is not a Kancolle thread.
But how did this >>16508572 became this this ? I wish there was an anime/game with Japanese warship which don't turn them into stupid moe girls.

>>16510674
There are. You just cant be bothered looking.

>>16508377
it reminds me of a star destroyer.

>>16508643
Japan could've carved out their co-prosperity sphere if they had simply not attacked the US. isolationism was strong up until then, and the British weren't even a challenge. another mistake was invading China, which I think was like invading Russia -- they should've been content with Manchuria and a few other possessions.

as it was, Japan simply could not keep up with the might of our industrial/military complex. advantages they had early on were lost, as our airforce got better and they ran low on zero pilots, etc.

Japan tried military conquest and lost, then tried economic dominance and got stagnated, then switched to cultural dominance, where they're winning. you have to admit, they have tenacity.

>>16510717
addendum, of course Japan is a major economy and one of the Big Four currencies. they're also gradually resurging militarily through Abe's reforms. I was just tracing out the basic pattern.

>>16508643
>>16510717
the USA put an embargo for oil on the japanese, they sure as hell weren't their friends before pearl harbor and they even expected an attack, just not at pearl harbor but in the phillipines.

>>16508488

According to the mods military otakuism doesn't exist. I've had my thread deleted and been warned for off topic posts when I posted something about aircraft.

Generals and /e/-lite threads are the only safe threads that don't come with a chance of deletion and ban.

>still Using Western warships
>not Using exclusively Japanese Warships

>>16510943
If you're a military otaku, you don't go to /jp/, you go to /k/.
If you're a train otaku, you don't go to /jp/, you go to /n/.
If you're a history otaku, you don't go to /jp/, you go to /his/.
If you're a photo otaku, you don't go to /jp/, you go to /p/.
If you're a bird otaku, you don't go to /jp/, you go to /an/.
If you're an idol otaku, you don't go to... Oh, wait.

Ram it home girls, ram it home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwLyIMqfbf0

Day of the Dauntless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzFr-uNTXxc

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