It's not anti war, really. It super glorifies the planes, and then has the hero minorly angst about the fact that they'll be used for killing before quickly getting over it because he just wants to design planes.
EDIT: I forgot, there's a whole subplot about how the Nazis treat the Japanese engineers poorly, but it's framed as being because they don't want to share tech with a country they consider a backwater and not because the Nazis are the fucking Nazis
and it's even worse considering that the Abe government has been ramping up Japanese Nationalists' dream of re-militarizing Japan and removing the law that keeps Japan as a pacifist Nation. It's an absolute shitlib "it's a joke bro" move by Miyazaki.
It's not anti war, really. It super glorifies the planes, and then has the hero minorly angst about the fact that they'll be used for killing before quickly getting over it because he just wants to design planes.
EDIT: I forgot, there's a whole subplot about how the Nazis treat the Japanese engineers poorly, but it's framed as being because they don't want to share tech with a country they consider a backwater and not because the Nazis are the fucking Nazis
and it's even worse considering that the Abe government has been ramping up Japanese Nationalists' dream of re-militarizing Japan and removing the law that keeps Japan as a pacifist Nation. It's an absolute shitlib "it's a joke bro" move by Miyazaki.
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