Nihonkoku Shoukan - Vol. 10 Ch. 47 - Seventy-Three (73) Country Allied Forces

[feha]

I just realized they use JoJo "to be continued" arrows. Looked back, and apparently it has been since ch1...

 

[outinthegardener]

It’s interesting that they’re talking so much about Iwakuni Air base but not mentioning the fact it’s a joint US marine base. They’ve really just kinda ignored the massive US military presence in Japan completely, would’ve been a pretty cool arc to see how they handled US/ Japanese relations right after this happened because you know the military would lock down and wouldn’t just instantly follow Japanese command.

Someone said in the comments of a previous chapter that the Author was asked this question. They're answer was the US Military decided they had more incommon with Japan than the isekai nations, and so folded themselves into Japanese command.

I agree that it seems... unlikely. The US Carrier group in Tokyo Bay would probably declare itself a sovereign nation, or go find some poors to conquer. Though some of the more weebified US Military servicemen could decide to be Japanese?

A further subject would be what the Global US Military presence will do as the US Empire further declines. There will come a time when the troops won't get paid, or the homeland politicians will get replaced by corporate lobbyists and congressional AI. Suddenly AFRICOM and PACCOM decide to declare themselves independent warlords?

 

[favine]

not enough JoJo posing this chapter. Still cool

 

[Kreate]

I just hope that nobody at JSDF would pull a Douglas MacArthur and spare that bitch from execution.

If you are thinking of Hirohito then Douglas did something much more effective than killing him. Showing the Japanese people that their god emperor was just another human and not making him their martyr seems like a pretty smart move in my book.

In this situation though you either kill her or give her a harsh non lethal sentencing as a pr stunt.

 

[FeudalGrass]

can't see this going wrong, when has annexing lands and forcing high reparations on a militaristic nation ever gone wrong?

well, as long as they have enforcement to the treaties.

Japan will likely thoroughly "demilitarize" the Empire here, and get the rights for resources as their land as war reps.

 

[Bibliothecarius]

Thnks for the chapter!!!

 

[FeudalGrass]

Someone said in the comments of a previous chapter that the Author was asked this question. They're answer was the US Military decided they had more incommon with Japan than the isekai nations, and so folded themselves into Japanese command.

I agree that it seems... unlikely. The US Carrier group in Tokyo Bay would probably declare itself a sovereign nation, or go find some poors to conquer. Though some of the more weebified US Military servicemen could decide to be Japanese?

A further subject would be what the Global US Military presence will do as the US Empire further declines. There will come a time when the troops won't get paid, or the homeland politicians will get replaced by corporate lobbyists and congressional AI. Suddenly AFRICOM and PACCOM decide to declare themselves independent warlords?

a US Carrier group would depend on a nation for supplies, logistics and service, unless they have people on board that can create the entire supply chain and industry from the ground up, which seems to be unlikely. they could conquer some poor nations but would be hard to hold without an industrial base.

so it would make sense for them to align themselves with Japan.

 

[RWorld]

That city with hovering segways, but still using floppy disks...

 

[outinthegardener]

a US Carrier group would depend on a nation for supplies, logistics and service, unless they have people on board that can create the entire supply chain and industry from the ground up, which seems to be unlikely. they could conquer some poor nations but would be hard to hold without an industrial base.

so it would make sense for them to align themselves with Japan.

That's an argument for resource seeking outside of Japan, because Japan relies on trade for essential energy and material resources, like Oil, Nat Gas, Iron Ore, and copper. They would have a domestic reserve stocked up, but it would run out eventually.

 

[FeudalGrass]

That's an argument for resource seeking outside of Japan, because Japan relies on trade for essential energy and material resources, like Oil, Nat Gas, Iron Ore, and copper. They would have a domestic reserve stocked up, but it would run out eventually.

yeah, but they can do it with Japan.

I doubt a single US carrier strike group have the scientists, engineers, workers, or people with expertise, and machineries to exploit those resources.

 

[Abricomas]

That city with hovering segways, but still using floppy disks...

That actually brings up a discrepancy I noticed between the manga and the LN/WN. The Holy Mirishial Empire is, if I recall correctly, supposed to be only at the post-WW2/early Cold War era in terms of technology (mostly swapping in magic instead of non-magical technologies), but the problem was that because they lacked the proper understanding of the scientific principles half of the Ravernal Empire's magitech, the actual performance of their military tech was about Inter-War, or 1930's tech.
So they have color TV's, and portable TV's, but I don't remember them having computers advanced enough to be able to handle floppy disks (Ancient Sorcerous Empire flying battleships are an exception, of course).

And yes, the Mirishial Empire is a majority elf nation; their Emperor is an elf.

 

[vergotear]

Erm wasn't Mirishial predominantly elf nation?
They were supposed to wear togas or something eastern looking.

No, their emperor is an Elf and their general population is elven majority but the rest is varied including dwarves, humans, beastfolk, etc. And in the earlier chapters, can't remember if it had in the manga, it's already explained a true elf has longer lifespan hence why they attain and retain such higher positions, while town elves that have mixed blood from other races have shorter or normal lifespans.

As for the Togas, the Mirishials didn't wear togas or said to wear them, maybe you're mistaking them for some of the 3rd civ area nations in the ch. 27 summit. The Mirishials their clothing are more like the European Magitek kind of vibe. Although one mistake the manga makes that stuck is showing every Mirishial wearing venetian carnival masks. But in the LN it's explained ONLY the people working for their "Ancient Superweapons Analysis and Tactical Operations Department" that studies the Sorcerous Empire ruins and artifacts to recreate that technology wear those mask to hide their identities.

 

[lazyman26]

having floating scooter and using floppy disk at the same time is hilarious

 

[optiso]

This is the first novel adaptation (apparently?) that I am wanting to see more of the Manga instead of just reading the novel. The art is so silly in a good way and the setting is what I was hoping gate would be more like.

 

[vergotear]

@IronMace1990 on page 22, the second half's two text boxes are in the wrong order.

 

[vergotear]

That actually brings up a discrepancy I noticed between the manga and the LN/WN. The Holy Mirishial Empire is, if I recall correctly, supposed to be only at the post-WW2/early Cold War era in terms of technology (mostly swapping in magic instead of non-magical technologies), but the problem was that because they lacked the proper understanding of the scientific principles half of the Ravernal Empire's magitech, the actual performance of their military tech was about Inter-War, or 1930's tech.
So they have color TV's, and portable TV's, but I don't remember them having computers advanced enough to be able to handle floppy disks (Ancient Sorcerous Empire flying battleships are an exception, of course).

And yes, the Mirishial Empire is a majority elf nation; their Emperor is an elf.

They have mana TVs and video recording devices, but there's no proof toward or against that laptop like device and floppy being a computer or a Mana TV/video player and its recording media instead, just like the Parpaldian's have TVs, communicators and radars in arcade cabinets. In fact there would be precedence that such mana video devices can be of that size in the Gra Valkas arc one of the Leiforian citizens in one of the bars had an all-in-one manacomm, a 30cm square box that's basically a tv and radio receptor that he used to hear the recent Mirishial news together with the other bar patrons

As for their calculator's size, that's another matter. Their magic based technology might be much more advanced, but when it comes to science based tech... When the Mirishials finally send a diplomatic mission to Japan, their main delegate's gift to Japan was a calculator, keyword calculator that does multiplications and divisions, the size of a desktop PC and weighing 14 kg. Which comes back to bite them and embarrass them when the Japanese throw back the mention of the calculator being a measuring stick of their technological development and showing a smartphone and all its functions.

 

[Dridespoon]

73 (73)

 

[JustNatsuki]

That city with hovering segways, but still using floppy disks...

To be fair Japan in the current day has condiment packets with both ketchup and mustard in them but also use fax machines

 

[FeudalGrass]

That city with hovering segways, but still using floppy disks...

probably a case of the military using outdated tech because they are more reliable or whatever. The US's nuclear command had also been using floppy disks until 2019.

 

[King-of-the-End]

probably a case of the military using outdated tech because they are more reliable or whatever. The US's nuclear command had also been using floppy disks until 2019.

US anti-air defenses(the Navy's version if I'm remembering right) still use a bespoke version of Windows XP serviced directly/only by Microsoft. It really is a case of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". They will literally not risk any kind of update unless full functionality is guaranteed, so they'd rather pay out the ass for the software vendor to keep making new builds of outdated software only for their systems than take even a 0.1% chance that their systems might fail if/when they need them if they swapped over to a newer version of Windows.