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Perfect 10 | 9 | 13.85% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 20 | 30.77% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 6 | 9.23% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 14 | 21.54% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 6 | 9.23% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 4 | 6.15% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 1 | 1.54% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 1 | 1.54% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 4 | 6.15% | |
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2014-09-28, 00:17 | Link #61 | |
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2014-09-28, 00:36 | Link #64 | |
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In real life no one want a total massacre or war if your living in a peaceful country. ignorance is a bliss and people not directly affected by it want to stay on status of peace. This is one sided massacre which was dub as preemptive strike to lessen casualties but its a one sided casualty. if its in real life they will probably argue on use of nuke and environmental side effects but here its just a huge bomb and no radioactive. A pure energy unleash.
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2014-09-28, 00:44 | Link #65 |
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You're right about that. And it's scary that Japan's Self-Defense Force has becoming more of a fighting force each passing day, which would pissed China and the Korean Peninsula. On the other hand, they'll get most of the casualties by Chinese forces despite having US backing.
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2014-09-28, 00:50 | Link #66 | |
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Sad to say but in this kind of situation, placing priority for your own citizens takes precedence over the hostile nation's citizens. The GAA acted poorly and their people suffered for it. This was all par for the course.
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2014-09-28, 01:02 | Link #67 | |
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Ironically the magicians forced the Nuclear world powers to seal their nuclear arsenal, yet here we have a magician that can create nuclear fission reactions with any element. Anyways as for the discussion on whether the preemptive strike was right or not, is an interesting one to think about. The GAA was the one who started the war and I can't remember whether it was mentioned, but they were deploying their own strategic-level magician in that fleet that was going to invade Japan. Which looking at their initial push a few years back would have been in civilian areas. Considering that the attack only affected a military naval base with nary a civilian death...is quite the achievement considering our current "asymmetric" push-button warfare in the Middle East. Then again, this war in Mahouka is a more traditional realist Great Powers war than a non-state actor one.
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2014-09-28, 01:21 | Link #69 |
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It's worth noting, folks, that the had already launched their military attack into the middle of a heavily-populated civilian urban area. Nor is this the first time they have done so, according to the novels. The Japanese could have sat around and waited politely for that invasion fleet to show up at their shores, along with the GAA's strategic-level magician (strategic-level is anyone who can do things on the sort of scale like Tatsuya just did), and start killing their populations, but why should they? The invasion was already underway. The GAA had committed an act of war just hours before. There is no space to complain just because that war ended up absolutely annihilating the fleet they'd assigned to it without causing any Japanese casualties.
It's direct matter-energy conversion. Not the same as fission. A lot more energy gets released this way.
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2014-09-28, 01:27 | Link #70 | |
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That was not a nuke. The closest analogy would be a hypothetical anti matter bomb. |
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2014-09-28, 01:33 | Link #71 | |
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Still I'm not here to argue about the science of the magic in Mahouka. I know that the author went through great lengths to make it internally consistent to the point that my eyes glazed through the engineering descriptions in the LN. It's more interesting to talk about the implications this has in the Great Powers race. How is America going to react to this? etc. TBH that ending epilogue by Miyuki was a lot more enticing to me than the flashy action and whatnot.
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2014-09-28, 01:37 | Link #72 | |
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This is freaking stupid. So apparently, it's fine to kill more people unless there's no lingering effects? Don't they think that killing a lot of people with a conceptual antimatter bomb already has a lingering effect that is taking out a large population of people in a single weapon?
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2014-09-28, 01:47 | Link #73 |
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the target was a naval base.
GAA and japan were in fact at war (or unofficial cease fire pretty much like north and south korea presently) since years ago. your enemy shows up and attacks your home soil. they are forming an entire fleet to attack again. your forces are not ready. do we use a WMD? yes you definitely do. no sympathy to the enemy forces. if you intend to kill, then be ready to get killed too. obviously there will be consequences. having a weapon or magician capable of something like that would certainly ring alarm bells of other nations around the world.
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2014-09-28, 02:02 | Link #74 | |
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2014-09-28, 02:05 | Link #75 | ||
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Nice job by the author. He can freely unleash WMD fantasies against that big Asian mainland blob while avoiding morale issues because he engineers it as a self-defense action, without even the need to explain it other than "they are an evil invader".
No wonder do some Koreans and Chinese who take fiction too seriously condemn Mahouka for being right-wing nationalistic. Quote:
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2014-09-28, 02:10 | Link #78 |
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Wigwams, I was thinking of any possible method of doing things like a mission similar to Operation Jaywick or waiting until the fleet has gone far offshore. A Jaywick-like scenario would risk blow Tatsuya's cover by plunging him into the heart of GAA's navy, and the shockwave caused by a Material Burst in the middle of the sea is going to create tsunamis that will hit the western seaboard of Japan, not to mention that it will also make Japan a prime suspect for the "attack" since it did happen on Japanese waters and they have the reasons to do that.
I think that the circumstances are too skewed to NOT rely on Tatsuya, and that's fucking frustrating.
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2014-09-28, 02:17 | Link #79 | |
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The point is that the constitution is a domestic law,not an international agreement.It's an entirely different matter if Japan signed an internationally recognised agreement with other countries not to fight wars or maintain armed forces. Even then, we have no idea what happened in the Mahouka Universe. Keep in mind that Mahouka takes places in 2090s,nearly a century from now.The consitution can clearly be changed. In fact, that's what they are already doing right now. The Japanese are free to change it whenever they want and the JSDF is legal because the supreme court ruled that it doesn't contradict article 9 even though it is clearly against what's written in the constitution. At any rate, I do agree that Mahouka is right wing propaganda. |
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