Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-14138255-20170405162643/@comment-25936766-20170405193630

WC-83 wrote:I recall there have been videos of people interviewing regular Japanese people (especially youth) and they didn't have many negative things to say (even backhandedly). See, there's the main problem. It's a known fact that Japan has an almost-null natality rate. Literally their population gets older and older, while very few people are born to follow them. Not even migration helps them (they get less inmigrants per year than other countries get weekly).

It's a land of old men, basically. And a good deal of them remember what Murica did to them, and when combined with patriotic fervor and a very traditionalist and isolated culture, the anti-Murican sentiment is huge. Some extend it to anti-West, but generally it's just Anti-Murica.

The hate is big, and one would need to be seriously ignorant of it to think otherwise. It's to the point that people who are partially-Murican often get discriminated or even downright bullied at times (something always ignored in anime, but a prevalent problem in reality. Though granted, bullying in general is a huge problem in Japan).

I'm 100% sure it has to do with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which makes it understandable though not 100% justified. The sentiment is also greater among the military population.

They also hate China and Korea a damn lot, though it's hard to say whether they hate them more than they hate Murica. They interact more often, at the least.

Which is why the idea of an anime about the ACW would never happen. They don't care about the US enough to do something like that, at most they wouldn't put enough effort and interest into it.

Grey is right; a WW1-based anime would be much better, and would also be far more "universal" than the ACW. That said, they should never make a WW2-based anime. It would just be a pile of "Imperial Japan did nothing wrong".