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Super Serial: Senkou no Night Raid episode 1
First, a bit of history. In the 1920s, China was consumed by infighting and civil war, mostly between the Kuomintang (China’s nascent central government) and various other parties (local warlords, communists, etc.). Also during this time, Japan had been acting out their imperial ambitions. Having established themselves as a world power after winning the Russo-Japanese War and the first Sino-Japanese War, Japan was working to establish an empire that spanned all of East Asia. In the early 1930s, they took advantage of Chinese infighting and invaded Manchuria, establishing the puppet state of Manchukuo. Senkou no Night Raid starts in 1936, a few years after the Japanese invasion, and revolves around a group of Japanese agents trying to ensure that Japanese interests are not threatened by the various Chinese factions. ...
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Super Serial: Senkou no Night Raid episode 2
Senkou no Night Raid hasn’t really leveraged its historical setting thus far, instead opting to be more like a retro version of Ghost in the Shell. Hell they even do that telepathic communication thing, which looks and sounds like the equivalent technique in Ghost in the Shell. I didn’t find the episode particularly well structured, as it tried to establish the back stories of our ensemble cast without a single line of exposition, and very little context. It would just cut into flashbacks at random times, though I found Aoi’s flashbacks to be most appropriate to the story. The main plot involves the arrival of a Russian musician who is a suspected spy. Our heroes (maybe? I don’t really see the purpose of their counter-espionage shenanigans) have to stop him from getting a message out to... someone. Wake me up when a proper story arc begins. ...
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