Mugen no Gunkan Yamato - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - The Bridge of Time

[MangaDex]

 

[eatgoddamnshit]

ZERO CONFIRMED KILLS

 

[Ghostdevil]

So how the hell is he gonna defeat the US here? Even with foreknowledge, Japan simply doesn't have the industrial capacity to win, like just look at the sheer naval production differences between the US and Japan. Its some crazy shit.

 

[Ubatam]

Interesting concept.... You had my curiosity but now you have my attention.

 

[KE1tea]

Seem interesting. Followed.

 

[Zeroisloco]

@Ghostdevil, Japan could have won if they stopped expanding their borders and started a defensive war instead, slowly retreating back to Japan and signing an armistice with good terms.

 

[aister]

@Ghostdevil some argued that had Midway had been won, Japan would easily push the war all the way to American soil. Prior to that battle, Japanese had the biggest carrier fleet, and their torpedoes were formidable. But then they focused on the wrong thing, just like how Germany focused on making the biggest tank with the biggest gun, Japan went with the biggest battleship with the biggest armament, both of which proved useless in practice.

So in short, unless they realized that bigger is not better, they can't really win the war. Not to mention, this series probably will focus on Yamato, which is arguably the most useless battleship. It is too important and too costly to run to be sortied willy-nilly to any battle. And battleships, in general, are useless and contributed very little to the overall outcome of any battles, during the entirety of its lifetime.

 

[DukeTogo]

I think I will enjoy this manga for what it is. But sadly the Yamato was built with the idea that they could fight a decisive battle and turn the tide and win the war with a Battleship. Solid theory, but useless when you are in the era of the Aircraft Carrier and the submarine.

 

[Aichan]

While it's true that Japan didn't have the industrial capacity to win the war, that was simply because of a lack of resources. They were short of everything, so there was no point in increasing industrial capacity, which they are more than capable of. The Japanese war leadership had to fight each other for steel.

There was no shortage of military spirit, but without equipments, there's nothing they could do. Then again, they wouldn't need to manufacture much if military hardware isn't lost. Ai-chan imagine that he would use his future knowledge to tell Yamamoto about the location of American fleets and about what to watch out for in the battles ahead.

Arguably, the reason why the Japanese navy lost was due to the old habits of 'bigger is always better' and the Nagumo's indecisiveness the Battle of Midway. If Yamamoto knows about his mistakes before the battle, he could've completely changed the outcome of the war, at least until the end of 1943.

As for the concept of 'bigger is better', that was the result of the restrictions of London Naval Treaty, which sets how many battleships Japan can have, so they tried to maximize the tonnage instead.

 

[ZenMasters]

Nippon numba wan!!1!

 

[entity_101]

Yeah, there's a video of PotentialHistory, where he talks about how the Yamato was the Right ship, for the wrong war, if it was WW1, it would've been a beast in naval battles, but with the advancement of Plane technology, and planes getting better at killing ships, the power went from the battleships to carriers, which surprisingly the Japanese were the first ones to do that change... Unconsciously... And then came Midway... And they basically lost all of their carriers, and pilots... And their codes were broken... And they were way too overextended... And they lacked oil... And many other natural resources... Yeah, Japan would never have won against the US

 

[Ghostdevil]

@Zeroisloco I wouldn't really call that winning so much as not losing horribly.

@aister I would disagree with that assessment, the Japanese had no hope of actually winning. Just LOOK at the production speed of the US Navy and the shift in what was important for naval combat that the US more than capitalized on. There isn't any realistic way Japan could have won even if they DID manage to not horribly lose Midway.

 

[aister]

@Ghostdevil that's why I said they focused on the wrong thing. Had they not spent too much on battleships and focus on the other important things like carriers, planes, or try to cut off supply lines with strategic bombing on major cities of the USA, they could have done better.

but no, they decided to go big or go home, Yamato, Musashi, I-400,... and then they... went home with none of those ships contributed anything remotely useful to the war efforts.

 

[SeekingSolace]

It’s here boys

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Thought he would be stuck back there but seems like the wormhole thing can reappear.

 

[RobottiZombi]

I'm invested, keep them chapters coming \.../

 

[BagOfGlass]

Thanks for the translation, but it's a bit rough. I'll wait to see if there are any future scanlations of this series

 

[DeGrasse]

>literally sitting next to the largest naval rifles ever put out to sea
>is completely unaffected by the shockwaves, which could theoretically blow you off the ship or at least deafen you for hours
Physics 100

 

[reanseih]

T-the font... Comic Sans?! Gosh pls no.