This is basically like why the Japanese invented Godzilla. After WW2, their kids needed a fantasy in which they were the ‘good guys’ and an evil to fight. they couldn’t play army. Their army WAS the evil. So Godzilla was born and they could be part of the world vs. evil too. Look at their Anime and Manga. (No not the porn, the regular stuff ;)
Same thing here. The feminist world is ruled by the evil of their philosophy. So they have to have a fictional ‘evil to fight.
Good post.
I did not know that about Godzilla.
I’ve read a couple articles that talked about it in some detail but being a long time Anime buff I remember seeing it discussed a while back on one of the director commentaries.
I think it was Rahxephon but I may be mistaken. Their Anime most always features “The UN” or another name for it as World Govt playing America’s traditional role as World Cop and whatever space robot Japanese cheerleader crew flying Robotech planes for them. The closest I ever saw to a pro Japan militarit was set in the immediate future with a middle east scenario. Anime was Gasaraki and that had nothing to do with WW2.
He also said plastic modeling was big in that it allowed them to participate in the boyhood military stuff of another nations military ‘safely’. meaning without having to glorify thier own past. The giant robot thing is a big part of that. A future military where they are the force of good.