This show is retarded. It's only techwanking for gun and military nerds.
Besides that, it has ZERO tension as the whole premise of the show is how a modern military absolutely shits on a medieval army with some fantasy thrown into it making the antagonists pathetic and infuriatingly stupid to watch. And to make the main protagonists even more absurdly OP, they give them an unkillable demi-goddess and the most powerful mage in the entire realm, they literally cannot fucking lose and they never do lose a fight in this entire show.
Even If you're a military nerd and you find the accurate portrayal of military tactics and weaponry. You have to admit, this shit is stupid.
I heard the manga was worse in terms of one sided fights and overly obnoxious japanese propaganda. I could be wrong though, but quite frankly, this show left to bad a taste in my mouth
Noah Morris
Hello burger-kun. This show is awesome if just for butthurt it caused fat retards for all eternity.
Samuel Powell
>please join the jdif, we are super awesome
Parker Phillips
i enjoyed the show but i can't even defend it, it was stupid af. But i liked it, i can't even explain it ffs
Bentley Jackson
>reading propaganda
Charles Morgan
With that mindset, you should also stop watching or read anything from US either.
Jacob Mitchell
Agreed, it would've been ten times better if was about a fantasy loving autist covering himself in mud and leading the elves and Romans shit in a guerilla war against human fucking shits.
Colton Gomez
A study on how a good premise fails if you insert unlikable main character and his harem into it.
Julian Hernandez
user, please
I don't read/watch jewish propaganda
anime is the last bastion of entertainment for entertainments sack
Anthony Jones
Culture shock, maybe?
Ryder Edwards
I AM AMERICAN! ONLY AMERICANS CAN DEFEAT THE ENEMY! HUHAH! SIC SEMPER! USA USA USA!
Josiah Davis
The manga is just as bad. And looks like shit as well.
Andrew Turner
Blue-haired chick should've been their enemy.
Jackson Reed
It was great for the first few episodes when both worlds went into conflict, but then shifted to generic haremshit later.
Ryan Diaz
I like it because unlike other isekai shows MC doesn't just blow deus ex machinas out of his ass and the girls have more grounded reasons to hang out with him. And MC puts the duty above the otaku shit unlike his loser former wife
Ian Bailey
Cute girls. That's really all what's good in the show/manga/LN.
Josiah Bailey
Just turn off your brain. Watch it for the hot girls.
Zachary Turner
>Someone dislikes a pro-JSDF series >HURR DURR THEY MUST BE AMERICAN
There are plenty of reasons why the series sucks.
Isaiah Gomez
Actually, i'm Australian. But really, even if i was an American, what difference does it make? This show is garbage for a whole plethora of reasons.
Michael Long
Yeah I got baited into seeing it as people were saying it was gonna be like a war between magic and technology, but that hardly happens after the first few encounters. Most of the time its just politics or harem shenanigans.
Jordan Lewis
I find it so interesting that people get so offended at the fantasy realm getting crushed by modern military.
Could it be that it is literally "dreams" being destroyed by reality? That fantasy in itself was sacrosanct, and that on the other hand the military were meant to be useless buffoons in fiction?
It just seems like GATE was about Santa Claus being murdered, from the way people react to how the knights die in their thousands.
That, and the other fantasy that the Japanese are suppose to be evil, incompetent, and weak.
It it a double-whammy, to both see the military for what they really are, and to see the fantasy realm for what it really is. Many people just can't handle it.
Christopher Smith
Just goes to show 99% of LN's are absolute fucking cancer.
Kayden Edwards
that's an interesting way of putting it, but you can't tell me that watching the fantasy army get god stomped every. Sing. Time. Is in anyway remotely entertaining? Maybe in a weird twisted sense it could be, but really it just doesn't click at all with some people.
Robert Lopez
I had a stroke while making that comment, sorry for shit grammar.
John Thompson
>that's an interesting way of putting it, but you can't tell me that watching the fantasy army get god stomped every. Sing. Time. Is in anyway remotely entertaining? It is entertaining because it is not about killing people. It is about winning the peace.
GATE is about the JSDF trying their best to make a peace treaty, when the enemy had no concept of peace treaties. The Empire literally assumed that peace treaties are only wanted by the losing side. So when the JSDF didn't just invade and kill everyone, like what the Romans would do, they assumed that the JSDF must be secretly weak.
And that meant the Empire kept trying to keep the war going while the JSDF tries to stop the war. That's the conflict. Not because Japan is nice, but because Japan simply wasn't interested in nation-building.
Caleb Nelson
"Realistically" a modern army wouldn't stand a chance. Magical control of the weather makes the most advanced military technology in existence completely obsolete.
>So when the JSDF didn't just invade and kill everyone, like what the Romans would do,
The Romans wouldn't do that. They'd make alliance with elites that welcomed their occupation and support those elites with their military might, allowing them to establish their control over an area through both political and military force. The Romans rarely went all out, and that was only against enemies they believed couldn't be reasoned with, like Jewish guerillas who believed in an apocalypse before the year was out or the Carthaginians.
If Caesar was in charge of NotRome he'd be shaking Putin's hand in The Diet by the end of the month.
Liam Cox
>The Romans wouldn't do that. They'd make alliance with elites that welcomed their occupation and support those elites with their military might What the fuck are you on about? The point is that the Empire sees no reason why the JSDF need a peace treaty, so they assume that the JSDF is hiding something.
>"Realistically" a modern army wouldn't stand a chance. Magical control of the weather makes the most advanced military technology in existence completely obsolete. And what the fuck made you think the Empire can control the weather? The Elves don't trust the Empire because too many of them had being dissected by humans for immortality research. Human mages can't do anything dramatic.
And if you think the Empire can control the weather, why the fuck would they need men with swords and metal armour for? That's your problem, thinking that level 100 heroes are somehow common.
Lucas James
I wasn't talking about the specifics of why GATE is stupid, I'm talking about a GATE-like scenario is stupid.
Luke Gonzalez
>I wasn't talking about the specifics of why GATE is stupid, I'm talking about a GATE-like scenario is stupid. It is stupid to think that any civilization that still used swords and catapults would stand a chance against a modern army. Any fantasy world that CAN fight modern armies would no longer have regular knights or swords. They would have to be using laser swords and forcefield armour for their standard troops.
Andrew Allen
>What the fuck are you on about? user was talking about you using a retarded example, but we can take this much further.
Actual, outright, complete and total destruction of the enemy with no recourse for some sort of acceptable peace is quite uncommon in the entirety of history. Everyone's favorite barbarians, the Vikings and the Mongols, are also known for being assimilators and largely hands off when it comes to the end of fighting. Yeah, they were utterly vicious and destructive, but the simple truth is no one fights forever without end. That's dumb anime logic. Peace treaties and the idea of a post-war that's not just the losers getting their shit pushed in for the rest of their days are absolutely a common historical occurrence and pretending it's somehow a purely modern conception that a medieval analog society would be fundamentally incapable of understanding is retarded.
Christian Rodriguez
>Actual, outright, complete and total destruction of the enemy with no recourse for some sort of acceptable peace is quite uncommon in the entirety of history. Everyone's favorite barbarians, the Vikings and the Mongols, are also known for being assimilators and largely hands off when it comes to the end of fighting. You are talking about VICTORS. Victors who already invaded and removed the king. JSDF didn't want to do that, which confuses the hell out of the Empire.
Wyatt Gomez
>Victors who already invaded and removed the king. JSDF didn't want to do that, which confuses the hell out of the Empire. that's not that unusual, if the victor has better things to do. The end of the First Mithridatic War for example
Cameron Moore
Also, the other thing people seem to be confused about is that the JSDF didn't raped anyone.
Like, it is such a strange idea that Japanese men might decide to keep their pants on. I used to think people are trolling, but now I realise they are really that stupid.
Lucas Parker
>The point is that the Empire sees no reason why the JSDF need a peace treaty, so they assume that the JSDF is hiding something. Well they weren't wrong, seeing as Japan was hiding that they were themselves only a vassal and a pawn in a game between far more powerful states.
William Reyes
Magic is a straight up "no, fuck you," to modern military technology and strategy.
Jace Sullivan
>Magic is a straight up "no, fuck you," to modern military technology and strategy. No it isn't, because if you do that then knights and swordmen become irrelevant. You are then forced to make the average warrior having Herculean strength so they can still exist.
Benjamin Edwards
Magic is still limited to the mana of the person as well as their strength.
Also bullets tend to move faster than a person can think.
Alexander Barnes
>if you do that then knights and swordmen become irrelevant.
Just because we nuclear weapons doesn't mean people fight every war with them.
Weather control would fuck up logistics big time. You wouldn't have an enemy to shoot or bullets to shot with.
Jordan Perez
It's jingoism
Isaac Perez
The manga has the same YAMATO DAMASHI stupidity but the art and pacing is better.
Ethan Edwards
it's fun, i liked it
Easton Wright
>Just because we nuclear weapons doesn't mean people fight every war with them. We could have swordsmen if we wanted, but we don't. You simply can't have swords and arrows being the main offensive weapons, and not get your shit pushed in by modern arms. You can have it both ways.
Andrew Robinson
>can't
Evan Powell
As mentioned, that depends on the level of magic they have.
Heck, maybe in their world, no one except for some really exceptional people/nonhumans, could even manipulate the weather.
Josiah Watson
>As mentioned, that depends on the level of magic they have. >Heck, maybe in their world, no one except for some really exceptional people/nonhumans, could even manipulate the weather. Any world where magic is everywhere and powerful, would create what end up being Final Fantasy level superhumans. At which point you are not going to have regular swordmen.
Adrian Bell
Lies, it is filled with the horror of war from old school massacres of old to the almost clinical organizations of murder today, sad political truths both modern and ancient, some reflection on PTSD, Excellent character designs and GOD tier art.
It still has some of the stuff you see in the anime, but when you strip out all of the above, you get a show thats just a lazy harem/army power fantasy
I liked the initial curbstomp, but eventually it just made the show have no tension whatsoever
James Gomez
I remember when Sup Forums was enjoying the upcoming manga chapters Why is it so hated now?
Lucas Clark
>I liked the initial curbstomp, but eventually it just made the show have no tension whatsoever That's just because GATE isn't about murdering people.
Robert Rodriguez
>I remember when Sup Forums was enjoying the upcoming manga chapters >Why is it so hated now? The haters are always around. GATE is just too different from the usual Fantasy world circlejerk.
As I say,
Evan Taylor
Does anybody else get a China-Taiwan vibe from Japan's insistence that "The SAZ is a part of Japan and that is currently in rebellion and controlled by insurgents" and the rest of the world's nominal acceptance of this piece of bureaucratic fiction?
Sebastian Ortiz
More and more Isekai shows that GATE is now not that unique in the whole "people from modern world get into fantasy" on top of being associated with that genre, which Sup Forums pretty much hates.
Matthew Smith
It'd be more interesting if all the intelligence agencies in the rest of the world actually had a real impact. Truly a JSDF circlejerk.
Christian Young
>More and more Isekai shows that GATE is now not that unique in the whole "people from modern world get into fantasy" on top of being associated with that genre, which Sup Forums pretty much hates. Well, that makes sense.
Isaiah Reed
the anime gutted it, and this is the "Anime & Manga" board where you can't have one without bringing up the other.
with the anime and manga targeting completely different audiences, you just can't get a good conversation going.
Brayden Roberts
For instance, imagine if some covert intelligence units went to the Earth world and tried to recruit foreign powers on their side in exchange for gate access. I'm sure Russia, America, and China want trade access too and are completely willing to sell weapons and other goods.
Anthony Powell
Try again, I'm an asian and this show is still pure cancer.
Luis Torres
Or maybe have another GATE appear on another country then have them all scramble for control on the other world.
Jaxon Ortiz
>I'm an asian Having a great great grandfather who jumped on a boat to civilization because retarded Manchu Qings ruined everything doesn't make you Asian
Xavier Gray
That's what I was hoping would happen throughout the whole show, ended up being quite disappointed.
Camden Phillips
No, it's stupid because there's no way an incompetant roman army can take over a fantasy world with OP magic and OP dragons.
Try again.
Unless they have mastered death magic or some shit.
In that case, the Nips would have died a horrible death a few days in.
Stupid show is stupid, no matter how you cut it.
I'm offended that the author tries to pass this furry harem shit as PLOT.
Robert Diaz
Reminder Lelei is the best girl and the only sane girl in the whole show.
Gabriel Young
Try checking my IP, I'm from SEA, you dip.
Noah Ward
Sounds like you should be reading Mahou Shoujo Tokushuusen Asuka.
Brody Powell
I always hated fantasy settings and stories. Always thought medieval armys shooting arrows and running around with pieces of iron was primitive and dumb. I just loved to see an isekai show shitting on all medieval edgines stupidity.
Bentley Sanders
I find it annoying that neither side is being decimated by diseases being spread from one region or another.
These are two groups that have almost never interchanged in thousands of years, just like Europe and the Americas. Why wouldn't they be annihilating each other with diseases that they've established a genetic resistance to over thousands of years where the other side has none?
Joseph Jones
>No, it's stupid because there's no way an incompetant roman army can take over a fantasy world with OP magic and OP dragons. You are the one who claim OP magic is freely available. Your argument is based on false pretences.
Tyler Anderson
I fucking loved GATE. Loved everything about it.
Gabriel Perez
I'm African and this anime is pure shit
Easton Foster
>I find it annoying that neither side is being decimated by diseases being spread from one region or another. The JSDF is wondering about that too. How could local prostitutes not be covered in STDs?
And the truth is that the GATE world is taken care of by gods. Unlike our Earth, the GATE world is micro-managed. Plagues happen only if magic or curses are used. And tectonic plates literally don't move at all, because the gods held them down.
Hunter Allen
I haven't even seen Gate, but what's the point of any show? It's all some sort of wish fulfillment for some type of nerd. Calm down.
Josiah Sullivan
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Jaxson Roberts
This actually doesn't sound half bad
Chase Ross
As someone with a military background and played CIV 4 and 5 extensively when they released, this anime was enjoyable to me.
Charles Wilson
Japanese version of pro-country wanking. Similar to a lot of the Ra Ra America films Hollywood puts out.
Thomas Bennett
even the military vehicles in EVA are better than this turd show
Sebastian Kelly
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Eli Hall
>I haven't even seen Gate, but what's the point of any show? It's all some sort of wish fulfillment for some type of nerd. Calm down. It is about an author being sick of the military being portrayed as being useless against swords and arrows, and try to set the record straight.
Dylan Rogers
Here's an elf in jeans.
Yeah.
Mason Sanders
That fucking Japanese Ambassador starting the war because of a FUCKING LOLI completely ruins it for me.
Tell me that is not available on manga, tell me someone.
Brandon Martinez
>sick of the military being portrayed as being useless against swords and arrows arrowstakedownahelicopter.webm
Hunter Carter
Elf is cute. CUTE!
Jordan Martinez
>OL elf God DAYUM
Benjamin Powell
>GOD tier art Sao Satoru is amazing and his art really is a throwback to the 90s or so. It's great to see.
As for the story, I haven't read the LN but I think that we're at the point where GATE is unironically enjoyable. We're just driving around getting into fantasy adventures, the intrigue has actual consequences since Itami and his crew are actually vulnerable now what with all the assassins and being cut off from the main army.
This arc is going by really well and it's basically all I wanted from the premise, having modern people interact with fantasy land and having actual stakes. And the political intrigue is fun to watch. I got real tired of the JSDF no selling everything the !RomanEmpire did and the "nippon stronk" wanking from the earlier chapters. I get enough military propaganda in my country.
Brayden Gonzalez
I could think of worse things to start a war over.
Alexander Bennett
>Beefeater lol
Cooper Cox
actually GATE wasn't about the army, it was about the protag. how many times did he actually disobeyed orders? that by itself told me this isn't about muh propaganda at all.
Evan Davis
> Join the army > Disobey orders > Get a buffet of waifus to marry!
Grayson Gray
If your only defense of your show is "wahhhh muh meanie Americans", then the show is shit.
Robert Ortiz
Is there a decent epub of volumes 7 and 8 around? The ones on the goddess have very low resolution illustrations.
Isaiah Sanders
well one can even say that because of his disobedience of saving the refugees was what made the entire story.
Zachary Mitchell
>the whole premise of the show is how a modern military absolutely shits on a medieval arm Literally nothing wrong with that. Go be a faggot some place else, no fun faggot.
Aaron Rodriguez
...Or maybe people just hate shitty Isekai with OP heroes. What's the more likely explanation?
Mason Jackson
>...Or maybe people just hate shitty Isekai with OP heroes. What's the more likely explanation? Well your explanation is unlikely because OP heroes are selling well. And always did. Your assumption is outright incorrect so my explanation is the more likely explanation.
Leo Lopez
Sup Forums always complains about it, though. Hell, there's a thread right now complaining about the new Isekai with OP protagonist.
Owen Taylor
to bad GATE doesnt have a faggot teenage MC and retarded soul-based mecha either
Blake Jenkins
>Sup Forums always complains about it, though. Hell, there's a thread right now complaining about the new Isekai with OP protagonist. Itami being OP is not the complaint about GATE in any case. So you are still wrong. Regardless your complaints don't match what people actually say about GATE. The main outrage being that the military are meant to be useless and magical fantasy is suppose to win.
That, and the complaint that the Japanese aren't evil enough. Or that they haven't raped anyone and that it is unrealistic. Or that the Americans didn't invade Tokyo. Basically, Americans being the murderous psychos that they are.
Charles Cruz
You're seriously pathetic. Every dumb isekai gets shit on Sup Forums, why do you expect your dumb Isekai to be immune from criticism? There's no American boogeyman out to get you, you just have bad taste.