Talk:Konpeki no Kantai

What is this?

As an frequent reader of books in the genre 'Alternate History', I found the premise behind this story to be interesting. Don't mistake: the story is a wish-fulfillment fantasy for such Japanese who still smart from World War II. It takes considerable liberties concerning what Admiral Yamamoto might have known April 18, 1943. The chances he knew much of anything about nuclear bombs, let alone nuclear powered submarines, are next to nil. And I've heard (though not witnessed for myself yet) that the attitudes shown by some of the characters towards the USA are every bit as ugly as those held by the USA towards Japan in the 1940s.

But the story might be fun anyways. --Rpapo (talk) 19:53, 24 January 2017 (CET)

And now, halfway through chapter two, we begin to see some strangeness. While it is perfectly possible that the USA manipulated Japan into invading China in 1931, I personally find this unlikely. Separately, with reference to my earlier comments about what Yamamoto should and should not know by April 1943, I can see that the writer cheated, and brought many people back through time separately from Yamamoto himself. Normal alternative history introduces only one divergence from history, and builds from that point. In the case of this story, changes are being brought in by the truck-load. --Rpapo (talk) 14:19, 14 August 2018 (CEST)