Brief introduction to the story of the dream battleship Yamato

"Dream Battleship Yamato" is a cartoon with the theme of Japanese war history in World War II, which is somewhat similar to Trotsky in Rainbow. The difference is that this is a cartoon that the traveler goes back to the past and changes history-in other words, at first glance, this is a cartoon in which the protagonist helps the Japanese "imperial army" defeat the US military and helps the "Great Japanese Empire" become the winner of World War II!

So this is simply a song that evokes the soul of Japanese militarism, and it should be a very dictatorial cartoon. It should look like this, but surprisingly, it is not. This cartoon story did not develop in such an evil direction, but inadvertently developed in a completely different direction.

Technical data of battleship Yamato

The benchmark displacement is 65,000 tons.

The full-load displacement is 72,800.1ton.

The total length is 263 meters (waterline is 256 meters).

The total width is 38.9 meters.

Draft10.4m

Power turbine (4 seats and 4 shafts), 153000 horsepower.

The design speed is 27 knots.

Cruising range 16 knots 10000 nautical miles (test)

2300-3000 crew members

There has never been such a huge warship in human history. The reason why this cartoon is called "Dream Battleship" is probably based on this. Indeed, technically speaking, this warship is indeed the highest masterpiece in the history of battleships, and its power is superior to all its contemporaries and even later opponents.

Showa 20th year (1945), April 7th, 12: 30.

The "Yamato", known as the strongest battleship in history, was sunk by the carrier aircraft of the US aircraft carrier in the suicide attack on Okinawa-"Kikushui Special Attack". A total of *** 10 torpedoes and 24 aerial bombs hit the Yamato. The main ammunition depot of the Yamato, known as the unsinkable ship, caught fire and exploded, and finally sank in the southwest of Kagoshima, Kyushu. And that was the last song of the end of the "Great Japanese Empire" and the prelude to the beginning of a new future.

The protagonist of the story "Uehara Susu" suddenly lost consciousness while filming a documentary about the Yamato with his father in the submarine, and then his soul crossed to the first trial of the Yamato, just before the Pacific War began! No one can see his soul wandering on the ship, except an ordinary sailor-Haima Yishui.

The cynical protagonist in No.2 Middle School took the war as a joke, and decided to use his historical knowledge to help Japan defeat the United States with a temporary enthusiasm, and ushered in the end of the war as a winner. First, he boarded the line of Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the joint fleet, through the hippocampus. Yamamoto found the prophecy of hippocampus very effective, so he gradually believed that he could see ghosts from the future. After the successful attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese planned to attack Midway Island, but it was necessary to tell Yamamoto through the hippocampus that the Japanese joint fleet would suffer a great failure of losing four aircraft carriers in Midway Island. However, Yamamoto urgently revised the battle plan, and the midway naval battle, the turning point of World War II, was launched in a completely different way.

It turned out that Japanese submarines blocked the US naval base in Pearl Harbor. They think the American aircraft carrier has been blocked. In fact, the US military has already cracked the Japanese code, and its aircraft carrier formation has been ambushed in the northeast waters of Midway Island. Their wireless communication was detected by the Yamato. At this time, due to the advice of the joint fleet staff Kuroshio Turtle, there is no need to lift the radio silence, and the carrier team must have heard it, so Isoroku Yamamoto did not inform the carrier force. However, in the cartoon, because Xu Lai already knows what will happen in the future, he has predicted what will happen to Yamamoto. As a result, Lieutenant General Nan Yun of the first carrier formation of Yamamoto Express, who was originally sent to attack Midway Island, turned to the location of the US aircraft carrier in the northeast and launched a pre-emptive attack-it was simply a replica of Pearl Harbor, and the US military was caught off guard again-and they originally intended to surprise the Japanese.

In the end, two of the three US aircraft carriers were lost. Although the Japanese side also suffered the loss of three aircraft carriers, the final strength of the US Pacific Fleet was shattered, and the Japanese army successfully landed on Midway Island!

From then on, the joint fleet regarded Isoroku Yamamoto as a man of god, and it was impossible to guess how he could accurately know the position of the American carrier fleet. What is even more exaggerated is that the future needs to return to the changed future, understand the impact of changing history, and guide the past joint fleet to win one victory after another by mastering new historical data. This is simply cheating with an infinite golden finger!

Get carried away, you must be confident that the National Games of the Great Japanese Empire were held by him alone, with the "future" as a bargaining chip to influence Isoroku Yamamoto, and even regard human life as dirt. He knew that midway could not be kept, but he gave up the garrison on midway, largely because there was a classmate's father who he didn't like. As a result, that classmate really disappeared in the future, and the protagonist of senior two succeeded in the experiment, which made him even more proud.

Therefore, when the US Pacific Fleet launched a counterattack on Midway Island, he instructed Yamamoto to launch the Guadalcanal operation ahead of schedule. As expected, the U.S. military carried out the Guadalcanal landing operation, which was originally an unfavorable operation for the Japanese army, but because the joint fleet completely grasped the movements of the U.S. military, it presented a different situation. In the battle of Solomon, the US aircraft carrier fleet was completely annihilated. Since then, the US military has no aircraft carrier power in the Pacific Ocean, so the joint fleet easily blocked Guadao, making it a "hungry island" with more than 10,000 people in the US Marine Corps. Then, halsey, a famous American navy, put all his eggs in one basket and commanded the decisive battle between the Japanese and American battleships. As a result, the two sides tied and the American fleet without air superiority could not win.

However, at this time, Xu Lai discovered a small cloud on the Japanese horizon in the future. He happened to find that half of Hokkaido was ceded to Russia on the map of Japan. Obviously, the imperial army of the Great Japanese Empire won successively under the secret command of his wise SHEN WOO. How can there be such a thing as ceding land?

The future is a mystery, and Yamamoto also has his own plans-that is, making peace with the United States in the early days. Yamamoto clearly knew the national strength gap between Japan and the United States, so he decided to make peace with the United States, and the chips were the blank time before the completion of the new US Navy warship, the captured Major General Vandegrift and the 10,000 US troops trapped in Guadalcanal.

And the story has changed greatly here-after returning to the future, I found that the history of Japan has changed greatly-the "Great Japanese Empire" appeared in 21century!

It turned out that after Japan made peace with the United States in the early days, the army, which regarded the navy as a traitor, launched many rebellions and refused to withdraw its troops. It fought a five-year war on the mainland and was badly beaten by the Soviet Union. Then, the Soviet Union invaded Hokkaido. Japan had to cede Hokkaido to the Soviet Union, and Japan became a closed-door and extremely autocratic military dictatorship. Due to strict military control and spy rule, the protagonist only asked "how is the war with the United States", and was taken away as a dangerous person by spies and ate in prison. The backward and autocratic Great Japanese Empire has indeed been continued, but Japan has only become a barbaric and autocratic militaristic country behind the times. And the ultimate culprit of all this is the protagonist himself!

Although the protagonist was released from prison by his father who has become a senior official, he was placed under house arrest. Only then did he realize how much trouble he had caused. And he made a deduction and found that Japan was already in an extremely embarrassing predicament. If the war continues, these initial victories will only make the final Japan fall into a more tragic situation-occupied by various countries!

Kanto was occupied by the United States, Northeast China was occupied by the Soviet Union, Kyushu was occupied by Britain, China was occupied by China (really humorous), and the four countries were occupied by Australia (like Australia? ) Divide and occupy Japan, and Japan will never prosper again. The American occupation after the war alone is the key to Japan's recovery in the future, and it is the crystallization of countless travelers' blood and tears (brain tonic). Now this disastrous ending is the result of the protagonist's second place!

Therefore, the world must make up its mind to guide history back to its original appearance and undermine the early peace between Japan and the United States. Although he made various efforts, under the strong leadership of Yamamoto, the Yamato sailed to San Francisco along the coast of the United States. Roosevelt and Isoroku Yamamoto met directly and negotiated repeatedly, and finally completed the draft peace-in exchange for Japanese withdrawal from occupied territories of various countries. At the moment when history decided to change, something unexpected happened-the Japanese-Soviet War!

It turned out that Kuai, the craziest staff officer in the army, discovered the movement of the navy, so he made an emergency appointment with tojo hideki and offered the secret strategy of destroying the peace talks-going to war with the Soviet Union! Although Tojo was very afraid of the Soviets, Kuaizhengxin introduced Hitler's emissary to him, and the newcomers brought the secret weapon of the Third Reich, the Tiger Tank, to Japan. A large number of Japanese troops equipped with tiger tanks easily tore open the Soviet defense line, and soon after the war, they went deep into the Soviet hinterland 150 kilometers. As a result, the peace between Japan and the United States failed, and disappointed Yamamoto had to leave the United States with the Yamato.

Later, it was discovered that the post-war history of Japan and the Soviet Union had changed a lot-the Soviet army could not attack the Germans with all its strength because it had to fight against the Japanese attack, so the time of World War II was greatly extended. Political changes have taken place in war-weary countries, including Roosevelt's death, Churchill's stepping down, a military coup in Germany and Hitler's exile. As a result, countries stopped fighting, and Germany and Japan became the forefront of the United States and Britain against the iron flow produced by the Soviet Union.

However, the situation in Japan has not improved, because Hitler fled to Japan with his loyal ministers! Japan, which accepted Hitler, became the object of criticism by people all over the world and became an extremely closed, backward and dangerous country. In exchange, Hitler brought a gift-the atomic bomb! The world war ended without the baptism of the nuclear bomb, and no one knew how dangerous the nuclear bomb was when the world entered the cold war. Then, Japan became an axis country of evil, mainly selling weapons to Southeast Asia and secretly spreading nuclear technology, and finally tasted the consequences-1999, known as the year of the end of the world, dropped a super-powerful atomic bomb far beyond Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Tokyo, killing more than one million people. Subsequently, Japan fell into serious social unrest, lost its national sovereignty, was full of terrible riots, and its economic base was completely destroyed, so it could only rely on the United Nations peacekeeping forces to maintain order.

The hero who witnessed all this was determined to get history back on track at all costs-and the means he chose was to assassinate Isoroku Yamamoto! He thinks it's all because of Isoroku Yamamoto, a man who should have died. If Yamamoto is killed, the Great Japanese Empire will eventually fail. However, his friend Haima didn't want to do this. In the eyes of the navy, Yamamoto is their most beloved officer and the military god of the whole navy. However, I have to explain to him repeatedly that killing one person can save millions and tens of millions of lives-the hippocampus has finally shaken. So he explained everything to Yamamoto. When Yamamoto learned of this situation, he was determined to die for the country and the people. He specially sent the exact time and place of his trip to the front to frontline base, and the news that this password had been cracked by the US military was immediately noticed by the top of the US military. General Nimitz ordered-kill Yamamoto!

Showa 18 (1943) On April18, Isoroku Yamamoto's plane was shot down by an ambush American fighter plane, and the commander-in-chief of the joint fleet was killed. Later, he found that Yamamoto's death did not bring the future he expected. He can't go back to the future by himself! Infinite Goldfinger also failed! And the significance, he soon understood-after Yamamoto's death, Japan has no future!

It turns out that the madman's chief of staff has a crazy plan-with the help of Germany, quickly developed an atomic bomb! As long as the atomic bomb is in hand, even enemies all over the world are not afraid-the result is the complete destruction of Japan!

In the dark tunnel, young people can't find the exit of the future. Does Japan really have a future? Are you going to fight with the shame of defeat, or are you going to be destroyed with all mankind? This once radical young man is thinking, and people are thinking.

This cartoon has left a deep impression on the historical details and the depiction of war scenes, and the development process of the story is also very interesting compared with the real history. In cartoons depicting the Pacific War,

Although it is aerial work, it is probably magnificent. "If it were me, how should I fight the Midway naval battle?" I believe that every Japanese military fan will probably have this idea. "Although I lost the war in the end, if I command, I may win!" Many works of overhead history, especially those about Japan's World War II, originated from this idea. Although we can't say how absurd the idea itself is, there are some "problems" in it.

As far as this cartoon is concerned, the biggest problem lies not in the aspect of painting, but in its thought. The dream battleship Yamato has two main ideological problems, which are actually two misunderstandings of Japanese understanding of war:

1. The navy is good, but the army is bad. Invasion and expansion are the ghosts of bad military staff, and killing civilians and prisoners is also done by a few scum in the army. The navy is good and sacrificed to defend the country. The villains are the crazy military adviser Zhi and the careerist tojo hideki behind him. Although there are some martial arts schools in the navy that oppose Isoroku Yamamoto, on the whole, they are "patriotic officers and soldiers" who obey orders and defend their country.

2. Isoroku Yamamoto is a great man who cares about the country and people and loves peace. He has always opposed going to war with the United States, and it is also against his will to have to sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. He has always advocated abandoning the occupation of overseas territories and making peace with the United States. In the end, his death was deliberately leaked to the United States, which meant committing suicide in Xie Guomin.

For the first point, it was the knowledge of Japanese soldiers and even the ideological circle to engage in aggression and expansion at that time. General policy As The Tanaka Memorial says, "If you want to conquer the river crab, you must first conquer Manchuria. If you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer the river crab. The Japanese have long had the ambition to conquer the world, and the navy is no exception. The navy is also one of the leading strategies for Britain and the United States to move south. So the navy and the army just have different division of labor. Even those who advocate peace talks with the United States on the naval side are not opposed to the policy of aggression, nor are they "the navy is good and the army is bad." "

For the second point, Yamamoto is indeed an American expert who knows the United States, but he opposes going to war with the United States, not because he loves peace, but because Japan's national strength is far weaker than that of the United States, and he will inevitably fail in the end. He planned the attack on Pearl Harbor and even Midway Island in the future, all out of gambler's psychology and serving the general policy of aggression and expansion. And his final death was only caused by his rigid behavior and carelessness in revealing his itinerary. Americans like to talk about Yamamoto's suicide, because they assassinated each other's generals by ambush, which actually violated the chivalry of fair competition. Nimitz, an old friend of Yamamoto in the United States, said that Isoroku Yamamoto was an extremely punctual person. And this also made the culprit who attacked Pearl Harbor pay the price of his life.

So this cartoon itself is full of sharp contradictions-on the one hand, the author realizes that the aggression and expansion of Japanese militarism is against the historical trend and will inevitably fail; Militarism will only bring disaster to the Japanese people and the people of the world; On the other hand, the author thinks that the failure of local campaign can be avoided, and Japan could have won that war. As a result, on the one hand, it pursues the "reversal" and "martial arts" of the Japanese joint fleet in order to refresh itself, on the other hand, it does not want to lose the benefits of rapid economic development under post-war peace conditions, and wants to make Japan a modern democratic country in the final war. The two are irreconcilable contradictions. So the process of war in comics is very strange. On the one hand, Japan defeated the American army at sea, on the other hand, the Japanese army retreated one after another, and even the extremely important Anderson airport on Gua Island finally fell into the hands of the American army.

Personally, the author's thinking may be like this: Japan will win a partial victory, but on the whole, it will gradually retreat in a planned way (according to the infamous "base camp publication", it means "turning in"), gradually withdraw its troops from the occupied areas, and finally retreat to China with few casualties, and finally give up militarism and become a peaceful developing country. In this way, the course of the war will be similar to the real history. From midway to Wright Bay, from Solomon Islands to Mariana Trench, the famous naval battles in history will also reappear one by one. Other similar time-travel works, such as the dimensional fleet, actually have this idea. The casualties of the Japanese army in that war were very heavy, especially the frequent rear-end charge, suicide attacks and unnecessary casualties caused by the US military's leapfrog tactics, which left deep scars on the Japanese army's mind. Of course, two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki also killed countless civilians. Therefore, it is not incomprehensible to hope that so many compatriots will not die worthless in that war.

For the Japanese, the fantasy of such a result in comics is of course a perfect ending, but in reality it is just empty talk that cannot be realized. Because the people of China and Asia, and even the people of the whole world, who were victimized by Japanese militarism, can't forgive Japan's aggression and atrocities. If you really love peace, please don't start a war first, ok? Japanese life is life, but isn't the life of others who have been invaded life? Is it really ok to say "we Japanese are actually victims of war" without paying any price? Although cruel, the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States made the Japanese complacent to some extent.

In fact, the huge battleship Yamato itself is a huge contradiction. Although it has the strongest 46 cm caliber main gun in history, the era has entered the era of aircraft carriers and aviation. The era of giant ship artillery has ended, and the largest warship was finally sunk by the plane. Yamato has been divorced from the times, and even if he has exhausted deception and won countless victories, he can't change the trend of the times. No, it should be said that the more victory, the farther away from the trend. This is the reason why this story is full of absurdity, and also the reason why the protagonist's actions are full of contradictions. Yamato, a huge sea monster that exhausted Japan's national strength, and a scrap steel with strong firepower but hardly played any role in real history, is not the best portrayal of such a contradictory cartoon?

Many Japanese cartoons that overhead the history of World War II like to entangle the details, and always feel that they have not done well in some details of the war. They could have won the war. They often do not reflect on the essence of war, and think that the major policy of invading Asian neighbors is correct, but the specific means are problematic. This cartoon assumes that "if Japan really wins the war or really succeeds in the early peace talks", the result is bound to be tragic. This "Dream Battleship Yamato" is more objective, and it also contains some criticisms of militaristic policies, which are unique to some right-wing cartoons. However, its limitation lies in evading the responsibility of launching a war of aggression and failing to realize that it is the aggressive ambition of Japanese fascists that is the root of the war disaster. Therefore, we can't correctly understand the position and role of the old Japanese naval officers and men in history, over-beautify their positive image, and fail to see that they are an important dictatorship under Japanese militarism.

No matter how interesting a cartoon is, if there is something wrong with its own thinking, it must be criticized. If we don't have a clear understanding of the war disaster, how can we be sure that the same war tragedy will not come to earth again?