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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9365258" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah I was genuinely impressed that they were critical in intelligent ways of the Japanese war machine in WW2, which is something that generally seemed taboo in mainstream Japanese culture or even in manga and anime, which are quite fringe in some ways (very occasionally it's sort of alluded to, but not directly referred to, even when it would make sense).Of course they glamourized the Shinden but I guess why not, it is pretty cool as WW2 aeroplanes go. And it was a superb Godzilla/monster movie generally. I also appreciated the [ISPOILER]"brave martial suicide isn't that cool, actually, it's cooler when people live!"[/ISPOILER] attitude.I found the fact that the heat breath [ISPOILER]set off what were clearly nuclear explosions to be a somewhat fascinating development of Godzilla as well, sort of tying him back to the bomb even more directly, as well as making him significantly more terrifying. It also was very interesting to me that they mentioned Bikini Atoll in that context, because of this bit from the Wikipedia article:"In an additional unexpected event, albeit one of far less consequence, X-rays traveling through line-of-sight (LOS) pipes caused a small second fireball at Station 1200 with a yield of 1 kiloton of TNT (4.2 TJ)."[/ISPOILER]Which seems like a similar phenonmenon.</blockquote>