This chapter was actually hilarious between "I LOVE AMERICA", The Star-Spangled Banner randomly being sung, and Death saying to call her "Lil D" Like She's an Edd, Ed, and Eddy character.
War being in love with America and people cheering for countries getting nukes is also a deliberate choice. America holding a large portion of Gun devil and the statue of Liberty housing weapon devils is also something.
I loved how this chapter threw out all manner of subtlety about War Devil's relation to America (if there was any to begin with), absolutely beautiful commentary.
Just look at Americas actual reaction to the nukes in 1945. It was an overwhelming positive response, the public believing it ended the war and saved American lives.
Eh it’s much more of a debate today and not seen in much a positive light. Even most of those that think it was the right decision tend to view it more somberly than triumphantly.
Looked in the context of the situation at the time, I think it's true that it prevented the death not only of many US soldiers but also many more Japanese soldiers and civilians than the atomic bombings, had a full scale invasion of Japan happened. Iwo Jima and Okinawa were indicators of how horribly it could have gone.
On top of that, it was in those days of 80 years ago that Russia decided to formally declare war on Japan, likely in the hopes of getting a bigger slice. Imagine the above and a competition between US and USSR on Japanese soil.
But as you say, it's now looked on more grimly, one of those situations where any choice wouldn't be pretty.
Fujimoto always stuck me as a bit of an ameriboo with how much he's in love with Hollywood so i really wasn't expecting him to all of a sudden go this hard on the critique of their warmongering
Even if he's doesn't mean to critique their warmongering, the concept of wars and weapons and especially nuclear bomb is so intrinsically tied to USA at this point I can't see it not happening.
He's just like Kojima dude. He's criticizing America warmongering exactly because he love American media, if you pay attention to American media landscape you will notice a lot of internal criticism, even Star Wars was allegory of Vietnam War. You have to be a world-class idiot if you consumed American media and missed the recurring theme.
He likes part of the culture, it's the foreign policy and war industrial complex that he doesn't seem to keen on. The previous arc of the japanese government sacrificing the young to prolong the geriatric people in power, is as much a critic of what is happening in japan as well.
He feels to really be critical on systems in place regardless of country.
Fujimoto always stuck me as a bit of an ameriboo with how much he's in love with Hollywood so i really wasn't expecting him to all of a sudden go this hard on the critique of their warmongering
He usually goes hard when it comes to critiquing America
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u/guppy_love Jul 29 '25
This chapter was actually hilarious between "I LOVE AMERICA", The Star-Spangled Banner randomly being sung, and Death saying to call her "Lil D" Like She's an Edd, Ed, and Eddy character.