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Senkou no Night Raid (TV).

The violin player was Japanese. What'd you expect? Fluent Chinese? That'd be unrealistic.

However, this has the potential to go VERY badly. They're telling a portion of the Second Sino-Japanese War from the Japanese perspective. A lot of terrible things were done for the sake of Japanese expansion. I'm waiting to see how they address such issues.

Yeah, but once you watch too much shows that break the fourth wall, etc, you start getting tired of it all - the escapism value gets drastically diminished. Maybe it's just me... my soul is currently being healed by the escapism of Bounen no Xamdou and this might help, too.

tarheel91 wrote:

However, this has the potential to go VERY badly. They're telling a portion of the Second Sino-Japanese War from the Japanese perspective. A lot of terrible things were done for the sake of Japanese expansion. I'm waiting to see how they address such issues.

Well if they don't stress too much over those well-known issues, it'll be fine. And I'm sure they've taken all the possible precautions, because a central TV network airing a show about that is in the same situation as someone balancing on a rope above a pool of sharks, and that someone also has to carry a ton of historical baggage. I kinda doubt their managers are so incompetent as to allow them to come under fire for things like this.

This was just the introduction though... I don't think we're supposed to immediately connect to the characters, it's more like being thrown into the thick of it.

I do realise the situation. I've read some literature on the current state of affairs (at the very least between China and Japan, the history book controversies etc.), and that is exactly why in my opinion they will not in any way create a show that somehow justifies their actions. Nationalist radicals who attempt to do that have always existed in Japan, but it's like, you know, Germany still has neo-Nazis, and somehow Der Untergang wasn't trying to portray the regime in a positive way. In our case, they don't like to apologise, and not likely to do so; so they'll probably let the subject be, and maybe not directly show war crimes committed by the Japanese, but definitely no outright revisionism (unless TV Tokyo's board of directors runs their meetings at the Yasukuni shrine...). I stress that before putting this show on air it must have gone through one hell of an acceptance procedure, since things like this can have diplomatic repercussions nowadays.

Is it me, or the guy with the violin speaks Chinese with a thick Japanese accent? Not that I know Chinese, but it doesn't sound very natural, unlike the other guy.

Is it me, or the guy with the violin speaks Chinese with a thick Japanese accent? Not that I know Chinese, but it doesn't sound very natural, unlike the other guy.

Be thankful you don't speak Mandarin. It made my ears bleed every time I heard it. Not like I can switch my brain off and just read the subtitles either. No way anyone with that thick of an accent could pass as a native speaker, which made the whole conversing while infiltrating enemy base all that much more ironic.

I'm surprised that no one mentioned this yet.

Yes, the guy with the violin (Aoi) speaks atrocious Chinese, but this was done on purpose. He's Japanese and the creators didn't want him to speak Chinese (Mandarin) perfectly. I was very impressed with the way they handled this.

對不起, 我的 國語不大好.