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  1. Liddo-kun
    2022-12-31 06:02
    Liddo-kun
    Happy New Year 2023! ^^

    food, trumpet, and a little fireworks to celebrate the new year.

    Spoiler:
  2. Liddo-kun
    2022-12-24 21:05
    Liddo-kun
    Merry Christmas.

  3. Last Sinner
    2022-01-18 17:06
    Last Sinner
    Odd Taxi somehow got nominated for nearly every category in the Crunchyroll awards. Voting is open for 7 days and can be done daily.
  4. Liddo-kun
    2020-12-18 11:13
    Liddo-kun
    Merry Christmas friend.
    I hope you and your family have a safe and happy holiday season.

  5. Liddo-kun
    2019-03-23 09:00
    Liddo-kun
    tagged.

    I too, don't have CR subscription. Grab everything by torrent.
    Sorry for that, I just assumed everyone who goes into the thread already watched the latest episode.
  6. nicky.
    2017-04-12 10:58
    nicky.
    Thank you. I'd like to think I have a decent sense of humor
    Yeah, netoge was pretty funny, I wouldn't call it 'guilty" though. We can enjoy stuff even if it's not that good. lol
  7. nicky.
    2017-04-11 21:22
    nicky.
    Nice to become acquainted with you Ghostfriendly.
  8. SPARTAN 119
    2016-12-13 06:50
    SPARTAN 119
    Had to send my reply by PM as I wrote too long a reply for a visitor message. Apparently they cannot be over 5000 characters.
  9. SPARTAN 119
    2016-12-11 19:13
    SPARTAN 119
    I completely overlooked the agreeing to peace talks with regard to Burns, but you're right, he was there- I barely noticed it since it was such a short scene in the episode. I believe at some point in the 20s, Churchill was hit by a car during a visit to New York- I believe that was the injury that caused him to walk with a cane. Now this isn't the first time this has been used as a device in an alternate history, but perhaps in the world of Izetta, the accident was fatal, leaving Burns to take his place.

    Of course a lot of this alternate history will probably remain headcanon beyond maybe a reference or two to it, at least in the story, or really collection of side stories I have planned so far. Still, an interesting idea to discuss.

    Not sure how interested you'll be in my other fanfic project I'm working on, but it's essentially a crossover between Gate: Thus the JSDF Fought There and Now and Then, Here and There- essentially taking the Gate concept, but replacing the cliche medieval fantasy, or should I say conventional isekai anime world, with one from a grimdark "proto-isekai" (I say proto-isekai as NTHT aired in 2000, well before the boom in isekai anime, and lacks any of the features of a normal isekai) anime featuring a world which is a post-apocalyptic hellhole where child soldiers, murder, genocide, rape, famine, disease, etc are facts of every day life. Essentially the storyline involves both Itami and an adult version of the protagonist of NTHT, Shuzo Mazutani, who, after a warlord in the world of NTHT tries and fails to invade, and Japan counter-invades, is essentially enlisted as an interpreter by the JSDF in the paralell world. Obviously none of the Special Region characters in Gate will appear, and much of the lighter-hearted comedic moments will be gone. Also, as the world of NTHT has guns and armored vehicles, the JSDF will not have such an easy time (but they will still have some advantage as the other world weapons look like they are held together, in some cases literally ,with duct tape). Basically, the early battles will be relatively easy victories for the JSDF, but it will soon devolve into a protracted counter-insurgency campaign like Iraq in real life. Also, if the politician characters from Gate make an appearance, the "strawman" politicians will be replaced with one with more realistic platforms- i.e. Mizuki Kohara (the woman from the Diet in Gate) will, instead of a strawman (or straw-woman, I guess) anti-military person who will use any excuse to criticize the JSDF, will simply have an anti-war platform.
  10. SPARTAN 119
    2016-12-11 07:44
    SPARTAN 119
    Just realized you replied in your own comments section!

    And yeah, I do intend to do that, of course it may be a bit before I complete it, having to work around stuff I'm writing for university and another fanfic project I'm working on.

    Also, with regard to some other details about the big picture, I have some headcanons about the government of Eylstadt and the pre-war history of Germania, also the presence and absence of historical figures.

    As far as Eylstadt is concerned, there hasn't been a lot said about the exact nature of the government, but, at least my fic will be assuming that it is some sort of constitutional monarchy, as an absolutist monarchy in Europe in 1940 seems unlikely- I'm giving the Germanians a pass because the monarch literally is a stand in for another dictator. Mind you, the only thing I'm basing that on is the fact that Muller seems to be involved with most of the actual running of the war, also there are a few unidentified people in at the table. In my headcanon, there is an an Elystadtian Parliament which gets hit along with the palace and the AA guns in Landsbruck during Sophie's guided V-1 attack, and have ascribed the ranks of "War Minister" to Muller and "Minister of Communications" to Elvira.

    As for Germanian history: In the timeline World War I happened much as it did in real life, as did the Treaty of Versailles, and the downfall of the monarchy, however, a number of small changes (To be fair, I only did cursory research on post-WWI Germany, so I would not be able to come up with all of them, so I did a bit of handwaving) change the outcome of the postwar period. But, one change I have included is that during the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler, Goring, Hess, and several other high-ranking Nazis are killed in the firefight with police- plausible as Hitler and Goring actually wounded during the Putsch in reality. After this, an effective leader never emerges in the Nazi Party, which remain a minor third party. Instead, after the onset of the Great Depression and the growing discontent with the Weimar Republic, the reactionary monarchist "Grossdeutschland Party" (my fanfic alternate historical invention) led by a charismatic (again, fictional) nephew of the deposed Kaiser Wilhelm II, Prince Otto, promises to restore the Germanian Empire to its glory days, and even go beyond that- to unify all Germanic people, avenge the Germanian defeat in WWI, and make Germania the dominant power on the world stage. While not racist like Hitler, the Grossdeutschland Party uses a similar "stab in the back myth", blaming Germania's defeat on the communists, socialists, and other political minorities. From then on, it goes similar to the rise of the Nazis in real life, with the Germanian people voting the Grossdeutschland Party into power, who restore the monarchy and crown Otto as Kaiser. After the Reichstag Fire of 1934, much like Hitler did in real life, Otto blames the fire on the communists and seizes absolute power, before arresting numerous communists and other political opponents and sending them to concentration camps.

    As for other alternate historical conundrums, such as the changes in names of most of the countries, and the division of what is now the US into Atlanta and Louisiana, I'm not even going to touch those, at least not immediately. For all we know, Louisiana could simply be a poor choice for a Canada expy or something on the part of the writers. I'm also not going into how Churchill and De Gaulle were replaced by Burns and Benoit- although I have toyed with the idea that at some point their ancestors simply married different people, and that they are, genetically speaking, part the real-world version.

    As for the use of historical figures, in my fanfic timeline/headcanon, while there are some new figures featured in the anime, and the anime is obviously trying to distance itself from real history, not surprising given the country of production. For instance, unless the last episode or a future second season contradict this, I am going to have FDR as the leader of Atlanta, though I'm unsure about whether or not have Stalin still be the leader of the Volga Federation, or whether to have Mensheviks win the Russian Revolution in this timeline and have the Federation be a more moderate socialist state. As for things more likely to come up in my fic, Rommel will still be a major Germanian Field Marshal.

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