Lately, Japanese netizens’ new favorite way of coping is watching Chinese movies about imperial Japan’s war crimes. They keep praising how insanely cool the Japanese Imperial Army looks and begging China to make more. These posts are going massively viral. To be honest, this could spark some self-reflection on how some of the over-the-top dramas are shot, that they made the imperial Japanese army too stylish to make them seem stronger. but I don’t want to go there right now. After all, Nazi troops are also glamorized and made to look extremely stylish in countless Western films, yet you’ll never see Germans dare to openly say “Nazis are so badass lolllll”. Not that they don’t way to, they don’t dare to. I’m just pointing out the obvious double standard.