I was so engrossed in the drama yesterday, I forgot to eat breakfast and lunch. LOL
I foget to eat like most of the time 😥 but with a drama like this I usually start eating stuff like chips - what ofc is very bad... Or making myself a very good tea ❤️
They cut too many episodes at the cost of plot tightness and too many interesting character back stories.
Under normal circumstances, they could have re-edited the material—cutting episodes, reusing footage from others, and reissuing the series. That this did not happen suggests it was neither a matter of laziness (which seems unlikely) nor of technical limitation. A political rationale is far more plausible. Alternatively—and this is where the issue becomes more complex—because the narrative explicitly draws on 24 of the 36 classical stratagems, this particular element may have been subjected to especially close scrutiny regarding historical and conceptual accuracy. The NRTA is known for applying rigorous standards in matters of historical representation; if the production team was unable to provide sufficiently robust justification for certain elements, this alone could have been decisive.
My bloodlust is just out there, getting more and more boundless. Your own children are dying from natural causes,…
That comparison glosses over a critical distinction: resource-driven expansion does not inherently require systematic dehumanization and industrial-scale cruelty.
If Japan’s actions had been primarily about resources, the level and nature of violence would have looked very different. What we see instead—massacres, forced sexual slavery, human experimentation, vivisection, and the deliberate breaking of civilian populations—points to something beyond strategic extraction. These acts were ideological, not logistical.Imperial Japan operated on a racial hierarchy that framed other Asians not merely as obstacles, but as biologically inferior. People were not collateral damage in a resource war; they were instrumentalized as disposable material. That is not a byproduct of scarcity—it’s the outcome of supremacist doctrine fused with militarism.
So lumping Japan together with Vikings or nomadic conquests flattens history into a one-dimensional “survival” narrative. It ignores intent, ideology, and scale. Scarcity can explain movement and conflict; it does not explain why cruelty becomes policy.
Resources may explain where Japan expanded. They do not explain how or why it chose to wage war the way it did.
Reducing that to “everyone does it for survival” isn’t historical analysis—it’s a conceptual shortcut. And shortcuts are exactly how atrocities get intellectually normalized.
My bloodlust is just out there, getting more and more boundless. Your own children are dying from natural causes,…
Yes, was thinking the same and then a bunch of ppl against XHA... They don't understand the bigger picture - it's their fault so many soldier are dying.
Done - waiting. 🙄 Can anyone sugggest me a drama with a similar plot? I really enjoy the revenge plot and don't remember any kind of drama which is similar to it. I need something in between the wait for episodes...
If Japan’s actions had been primarily about resources, the level and nature of violence would have looked very different. What we see instead—massacres, forced sexual slavery, human experimentation, vivisection, and the deliberate breaking of civilian populations—points to something beyond strategic extraction. These acts were ideological, not logistical.Imperial Japan operated on a racial hierarchy that framed other Asians not merely as obstacles, but as biologically inferior. People were not collateral damage in a resource war; they were instrumentalized as disposable material. That is not a byproduct of scarcity—it’s the outcome of supremacist doctrine fused with militarism.
So lumping Japan together with Vikings or nomadic conquests flattens history into a one-dimensional “survival” narrative. It ignores intent, ideology, and scale. Scarcity can explain movement and conflict; it does not explain why cruelty becomes policy.
Resources may explain where Japan expanded.
They do not explain how or why it chose to wage war the way it did.
Reducing that to “everyone does it for survival” isn’t historical analysis—it’s a conceptual shortcut. And shortcuts are exactly how atrocities get intellectually normalized.
In regards to MLC: The biggest liar of them all.
Done - waiting. 🙄
Can anyone sugggest me a drama with a similar plot? I really enjoy the revenge plot and don't remember any kind of drama which is similar to it. I need something in between the wait for episodes...