I think I won't download this one. It seems strange and tragic. But I noticed something about the frame grabs that was eerie.

The second of the three episodes is about the pilot of an Ohka, which was referred to by the Americans as a "Baka bomb". Once an Ohka got launched, the only hope for the targetted ship was AAA. But in fact few of them did get launched because they had to be carried pretty close to their targets by specially-equipped Betty bombers, and nearly all of those were intercepted and shot down by American fighter cover before they could reach their launch point.

Anyway, the weird thing about the frame grabs for the second episode is that the pilot looks like an American. He doesn't look Japanese. We've all long noted that anime characters look Western, not Oriental. Eyes are round, hair color is varied, and so on. This is a case where that style comes back to bite them, because the character is explicitly Japanese but he looks like an American ex-pat.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 05:10 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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