The novel isn’t trying to teach a lesson though. The novel is just for entertainment. It is real annoying when people start trying to read between the lines trying to find things that aren’t necessarily there when it is merely meant to be taken at face value.

I have, and I do realize it was a horrible event. And, I can see how people would be uncomfortable with it in this light. However, reading the official localization even knowing about Nanking, I never would have made the connection. They didn’t mention anything about him being in the army or anything like that. They…

And, I have also admitted I’m not a history buff. I like their pop culture. I don’t even like historical animes, they are just boring to me. Just because I like their pop culture doesn’t mean I have any interest in their history. To me Anime is just another TV show that I just so happen to enjoy, nothing more, nothing…

The thing is, in the novel it wasn’t presented as a war crime. The goddess that sent him to the other world was informed that he had body count of 3000 over his previous life, but that he was essentially still a “good/honorable” person. THey never mentioned a war or even the fact he was a soldier. They made it out as…

I have alreadly looked up the events concerned here and even admitted I can see how they could make people uncomfortable. However have you even read the novel being discussed or just jumping on the bandwagon like so many others? The official localization doesn’t even mention a war or even a specific time period. Even…

It had the same impact as the Holocaust. It didn’t effect the US directly and only did through second hand knowledge and refugees. Seems pretty similar to me. And I think “war is bad” and “don’t make light of war crimes” are very valuable lessons indeed, if you don’t whatever I don’t feel like arguing about this.

Yes, and racist tweets have nothing necessairly to do with the Novel, plus these days everything is “racist” or offensive to someone, no matter how benign it may have been. You can’t really take the internet being offended by something too seriously these days. Also the official localization never mentions him being…

The lesson is that war is hell, and that no matter what you think things are war crimes for a reason. What further lessons do I need to learn from this? I’m not gonna spend my time dwelling on something I can never change that happened 80 years ago.

I think the J-Novel Localization did away with the war part completely. I figured it was just hyperbole. Most isekai stories purposefully have way-overpowered protagnist that would never exist in the real world.

Ya, I can get why people might have issue with this. I think changes in the localization process, plus my own admitted ignorance of the event referenced, is probably why I didn’t really think twice about it.

Exactly, which is yet another reason I thought the author was just exagerating the number for dramatic effect. That is something that authors do afterall.

I know enough history, but more importantly I had parents that raised me to know the difference between right and wrong and how to think for myself. A little common sense also goes a long way.

I don’t even remember the Localization mentioning a war. They mentioned him being a member of some kind of mafia organization and having over 3000 kills all over Asia over his lifetime. I’m starting to suspect that this was something changed in localization, beacause that doesn’t really point to any one event,…

They weren’t spotlighted or anything in the novel, they were mentioned and a character was concerned by the events. Maybe that was changed made during localization, but that hardly seems like glorifying or mishandling a situation that came accross as rather vague and amounts for less than half a page of content. Maybe…

There were more than enough atrocities on the European front to learn the same lesson that is taught by the events referenced here. And I can assure you the European front was probaly 70% of the course’s syllabus for a course meant to cover from after the Reconstruction (aftermath of the American Civil War) up to…

Well considering the articles I read since being informed of the Nanking Massacre state that there are still factions denying that the events ever occurred or were fully justified (which they obviously weren’t), yes I’d say some of this reaction is people trying to keep these events from the public eye (the whole…

To be honest, till I read this article I didn’t even take it that it was happening in war. I could of sworn they were insinuating that he was the member of some mafia type organization (likely Yakuza, but that term wasn’t used in the translation). I never got the message that he was some kind of military officer.…

When I said “exagerated” I meant the 3000 kill count figure in the novel, not the Nanking Massacre, I can easily tell that wasn’t an exageration and if anything is under represented in the official documents on the mattered.

I read almost exclusively fantasy with a smattering of science-fiction (I tend to prefer my Scifi from movies though). I’m not really gonna get a lot of real world history from fantasy books.

I can’t help it, I’m not a fan of non-fiction. It literally puts me to sleep. I can’t keep my eyes open. I read a lot, a crap ton, I’m running out of bookshelf space and have no more room for more bookshelfs because I have too many books, but those are all fiction. I’ve always been that way. I am a highly logical…