Where does Japans massive Prussia fetish come from?
>>874490
yapoo
Hah, is that from the LOGH opera shit? So goofy.
A large part of the IJA's Westernization was due to Prussian military advisors. Originally, the French were the top choice but their reputation diminished after the Franco-Prussian War. Prussian infantry tactics helped Japan defeat China in a lopsided war, but also led to enormous casualties against the Russians.
>>874490
>military
>autism
>imperialism
>chuu2 german
>>874490
They have a massive hardon for Germanic shit in general.
Just watch any fantasy anime, 90% there'll be some butchered German in there, somewhere.
>>874516
This.
WE WUZ ALLIES AN SHIET
>>874490
Prussia is old and busted. GDR is the new hotness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbZP80AeN6U
>>874559
Not gonna lie, that series got me into reading about the GDR.
But... that's a Rose of Versailles aka set in France musical.
>>874522
>Germanic shit
And Italian shit too, even more than germanic because translitterating Italian to Japanese is piss-easy because the phonemes are literaly the same.
Japan are Euroboos generally
Example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/8320412.stm
>>874570
>Mecha-Spreewaldgurke intensiviert
>>874781
FOLGORE IS THE GREATEST
What's a good documentary about Prussia? I know next to nothing about them.
>>875468
None, just read Iron Kingdom.
>>875468
There's a BBC documentary about how one or two Prussian kings were forward-thinking multiculturalists
>>874490
Because they adopted much of Prussianism when they felt the need to get imperial.
>>874781
'Cause Prussia was far and away the best of the German kingdoms pre-unification. Hell, the German empire was basically just Prussia 2.0, this time with more useless states like Bavaria. Of course, their uniforms are fucking incredible. Besides, they are a lot like the Nazis, (who everyone secretly loves) but you don't have the baggage of genocide and World War II on your hands. Besides, they managed to upstage the French in the Franco Prussian War, ending France's reign as the unquestioned land military power in Europe.
>>875332
you know it baby
>>875546
They weren't multiculturalists, they just didn't care what you were as long as you were useful and didn't make waves.
>>875561
>they are a lot like the Nazis
They are basically diametrically opposed to the Nazis on nearly every issue.
>>875561
>ending France's reign as the unquestioned land military power in Europe
France quickly modernized and became a behemoth again. Bismarck's entire foreign strategy was to leave France isolated because France plus any major ally would be enough to stomp the shit out of Germany.
Actual answer. Because the Japanese Empire had close ties to Prussia, they based their military model on the Prussian one.
>>875432
Boing boing
>>875585
I meant that insofar as they have the same sort of aesthetic with their hyper-militarized society and powerful looking uniforms. You are right though, the similarities do end there, though the Nazi Reich did idolize Frederick the Great, and Adolf Hitler often compared himself to him.
>>875588
The Franco-Prussian war was pretty embarrassing from a French perspective.
All those things considered, Prussia was still the main layer when it came to unifying the German states into a cohesive power which posed a threat to Great Britain and France.
>>874490
I think to them it's not Prussia, but more like "1400-1800 western things", kinda like many westerners are pooling all things asian under the "chinese" label, or simply "asian".
>>875613
>kinda like many westerners are pooling all things asian under the "chinese" label,
literally who does this
>>875618
Many north americans do this, especially people from older generations.
>>875576
Sounds like multiculturalism desu.
>>875618
I work with a guy. 24 years old, has a college education. Majored in biology.
Had absolutely no idea Japan occupied China in WWII. People are surprisingly ignorant about a lot of things.
>>874490
The Baltic
>>874490
Whole of East Asia had a massive Prussian fetish up until the Chinese bit of it went Sovtard.
It was largely due to the 1860's-70's when Prussia buttfucked German States, Austria, and France and had the most modern military at the time. East Asians from the Qing Empire to Meiji Japan started clamouring for Prussy military advisors.
Pic related: that white plume thing? Lifted from Prussian Uniforms. Emperor Meiji here.
>>876156
Another pic related: Qing General Yuan Shikai who commanded the Prussian trained Beiyang Army. Also in Prussian-style uniform.
>>876156
Germany also had a constitution and government that heavily favored the monarchy and its advisers over the Diet and other bodies. So a lot of the Asian states (Japan in particular) found it desirable to copy their constitution when establishing a modern government
The Japanese state was organised after the Meiji restoration using the Prussian state as a template.
>>875703
Before nationalism really became a thing, most sovereigns didn't really care about the ethnicity of their subjects. Prussia was desperately searching for new citizens after its population had been reduced by the 30 Years War. Anyone with the right religion and decent qualifications could settle there, as long as he swore an oath to follow the sovereign.
The best example would probably be the immigration of 20000 Huguenots after they were driven out of France in 1685.
wut? Isn't Japan way more francophile than anything else?
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>>874490
Japan was yanked forcefully out of hiding and had to play catchup, so they started emulating the European powers. They emulated British naval practices and French style conscription to some extent, but the fashionable thing to do when you come late to the game is emulate the people who seem to be on the cutting edge. At the time that was Prussia, so the Prussian style of doing things became the symbol of modernity to them. There's a similar analogue in the later Chinese modernization. Among many other reasons, Communism appeared to be the cutting edge new way to structure a nation state, which seemed appealing when they were making no headway against the European empires that the Japanese had emulated a few decades earlier.
>>874490
>>874508
same thing happened to Chile
our military has a raging boner for Prussian/German aesthetics
>>874490
Same reason(s) westerners love katanas and the samurai.
>>874522
>90% there'll be some butchered German in there
Half the characters in Attack on Titan had German names.
>>876839
>Among many other reasons, Communism appeared to be the cutting edge new way to structure a nation state, which seemed appealing when they were making no headway against the European empires that the Japanese had emulated a few decades earlier.
This isn't at all why China turned Communist.
>>877225
TBF it takes place in alt-history Germany.
>>874816
Not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRI5eWWZIpo
Get
>>out
East Germany best Germany
>>875611
>Adolf Hitler often compared himself to him.
Is it because they're both raging homosexuals?
>>875468
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WMNkd6-CMY
>>877723
My genosse.
Autism
>idolized eternal krauts
>got nuked twice
>>877723
>>878723
>>875571
>>874570
>>874559
Have the SM threads migrated to /his/ now that [spoiler]the show is almost history[/spoiler]
>>874579
Lady Oscar is the goat musical
>>876806
>Anyone with the right religion
You do know that Friedrich der Große himself said, that he didn't care about the religion of his subjects at all right?
Actually this is one of the big "enlightened" virtues Kant praised about Friedrich.
