Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-14138255-20170405162643/@comment-14138255-20170405234159

73.Anon.52 wrote:

It really depends on the production value, intent, art style, and Voice acting. If the intent is action focused, the ACW has that, but I don't think the Japanese are interested in the actual story except for possibly War buffs...

The trouble I fear is that the ACW occured and ended as a result and cause of a culture that the japanese find interesting because it is so alien to them... so finding a director and writers who will keep it faithful yet interesting would likely require some kind of collaboration like the RWBY translation;  Writers/directors who are American(or mostly so), with localizers representing what they find interesting from their own cultural perspective, and of course a mostly japanese design/animation team to again align the resulting product closer to their market audience while also keeping it faithful to the actual history. Well for production value, I was thinking of a modest budget, at the very least competent for the times. The anime could be rather character driven, maybe focusing a good bit on the friends the main character makes in his time in the war, but having a good mix of quiet drama, levity, and action, enough to be entertaining. I was thinking an art style that is recognizably "anime", and not something like Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (which has an art style so realistic it's been accused of rotoscoping). As an American I can't gauge who's a good Japanese VA and who's a bad one.

That's kind of what I'm banking on, that the Japanese would be curious/puzzled enough about America (or at least what America has to do with this particular show) that they'd give it a look.