{"id":513,"date":"2006-05-21T23:28:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T13:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=513"},"modified":"2006-05-21T23:29:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T13:29:34","slug":"black-lagoon-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Black Lagoon – episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Return of the Eagle”<\/p>\n

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Nazis, old and new! Plunder the old, destroy the new! That’s my motto.<\/p>\n

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Rock tells Dutch that he once went scuba diving, so Dutch accepts a job to recover a painting from a sunken Nazi submarine.<\/p>\n

The episode travels back and forth from the Nazi ship circa 1945 to the modern day adventures, and it’s interesting to see the historical perspective provided.
\nThere are two types of Nazis on board: those who can see that the war has been lost and who value their family more dearly than the fatherland, and those who can think of nothing but the greatness of the party and its message.
\nNaturally, this is a cause of conflict.<\/p>\n

Most interesting is that I was reading an opinion about the representation of World War II in anime<\/a>: that America and Japan are frequently seen as the good guy, with Germany and Russia as the unquestionably evil. This episode wants to tie in the idea of Japan, and so the Nazi ship was charged with the mission of delivering a Japanese officer to Batavia.
\nWhile the Japanese officer is ultimately inconsequential to the story at hand, it is nice to see a tacit acceptance of the fact that Japan and the Nazis were in league.<\/p>\n

As for the Neo-Nazis: they have some sort of weird symbol that replaces the swastika, and I don’t know what it means. The recreation of Nazi-era anthems in their boat sounds accurate to my ear and, in a less subtle fashion, each Neo-Nazi is presented as a faceless drone of evil.
\nIf you contrast these Neo-Nazis with the World War II era Nazis, you can take the stance that the Nazis of the forties were not necessarily all inhumane bastards: sometimes in war, compulsory service overrides ideology. The officer on board is one of the “bad” Nazis, but the rest seem to be caught up in their country’s efforts.
\nNeo-Nazis, on the other hand, have no excuse for their attitudes. They are not so much people as demons, and the creative staff can easily get away with such a suggestion as they would find few people who would disagree with them.<\/p>\n

I’d apologise to all Neo-Nazis who like anime and read this site, except I don’t want to. <\/p>\n

I look forward to the conclusion to this story, and will get to it soon.<\/p>\n

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