Ah, seeing the one without text, I thought they were going to say, "you're a paracite on this family, you can either sign up for war or live in the street." This somehow manages to be a bit worse.
This may be cliche, but this does remind me a bit of 40k when it comes to the fate of many a conscript tithed to the Imperial Guard. In theory and in culture, this is a honorable and noble position, in reality, it is not always the best of circumstances, with press gangs, people paying others to take the service for them, or the unwanted (but not unclean/heretical) being shuttled off.
I do like the way they tried to justify it to themselves, with the whole "Hey, if her family was willing to sell her off that quickly, she's better off without them!" Carefully ignoring the fact that you could just. You know. Get her a new family. That's a thing that happens.
I do like the way they tried to justify it to themselves, with the whole "Hey, if her family was willing to sell her off that quickly, she's better off without them!" Carefully ignoring the fact that you could just. You know. Get her a new family. That's a thing that happens.
Well they sorta gave her a new family. She's even got a lot of sisters now.
I do like the way they tried to justify it to themselves, with the whole "Hey, if her family was willing to sell her off that quickly, she's better off without them!" Carefully ignoring the fact that you could just. You know. Get her a new family. That's a thing that happens.
Its not as if foster families are guaranteed to be good, nor is the process exactly an easy one for anyone involved.
"Shitty family circumstances" is a prime motivator for recruitment.
Well they sorta gave her a new family. She's even got a lot of sisters now.
Saladofstones said:
Its not as if foster families are guaranteed to be good, nor is the process exactly an easy one for anyone involved.
"Shitty family circumstances" is a prime motivator for recruitment.
Foster families are not guaranteed to be good, you're right, and she did get a new family in a way, but this story sure seems to me like it's painting "becoming a Shipgirl" as something guaranteed to be bad. A lack of a good guarantee is still better than a bad guarantee.
I still think that this is just the recruiters trying to calm their own guilt by justifying it to themselves as helping the girls, and I actually think that's a really nice touch to this story. It fits the dark, horrifying theme it's going for.
Foster families are not guaranteed to be good, you're right, and she did get a new family in a way, but this story sure seems to me like it's painting "becoming a Shipgirl" as something guaranteed to be bad. A lack of a good guarantee is still better than a bad guarantee.
I still think that this is just the recruiters trying to calm their own guilt by justifying it to themselves as helping the girls, and I actually think that's a really nice touch to this story. It fits the dark, horrifying theme it's going for.
Furutaka and Shimakaze had serious injuries apparently that kept them hospital-bound that were cured, and, as I mentioned in that post, it actually does a good job of justifying why Shimakaze talks about almost nothing but bragging about how fast she can run. Put another way, if your life is shit enough to start with, then being shipped off to war is an improvement. That, of course, depends on just how scarring the war is, but that's not exactly shown, just the "before" pictures.
Rather, I think that the point of this series isn't that it's always bad to be a shipgirl, it's just that, presuming shipgirls were normal girls to start with that were transformed into shipgirls instead of robots or pixie dust appearing whole and with a ship's memories, then it would take some pretty extreme circumstances to warrant the types of characters we see (especially the very young characters) becoming shipgirls. Characters like Haguro are added in because her personality is so totally unsuited for the military, while Tenryuu and Tatsuta are there to represent those people who would willingly put themselves in the line of fire out of a sense of national pride or duty. The destroyers, however, as child soldiers are almost all there out of desperation or terrible family circumstances.
The government, for its part, is just accepting it in a way that justifies it to the people doing the "recruiting" because they're desperate, too. If the world can only be saved by sending teenagers to fight, then sending them to foster homes will just wind up with those foster homes being destroyed. Sacrifices need to be made, needs of the many over the few, yada, yada, just keep your head down and do what needs to be done and try not to think too hard about it.
Furutaka and Shimakaze had serious injuries apparently that kept them hospital-bound that were cured, and, as I mentioned in that post, it actually does a good job of justifying why Shimakaze talks about almost nothing but bragging about how fast she can run. Put another way, if your life is shit enough to start with, then being shipped off to war is an improvement. That, of course, depends on just how scarring the war is, but that's not exactly shown, just the "before" pictures.
Rather, I think that the point of this series isn't that it's always bad to be a shipgirl, it's just that, presuming shipgirls were normal girls to start with that were transformed into shipgirls instead of robots or pixie dust appearing whole and with a ship's memories, then it would take some pretty extreme circumstances to warrant the types of characters we see (especially the very young characters) becoming shipgirls. Characters like Haguro are added in because her personality is so totally unsuited for the military, while Tenryuu and Tatsuta are there to represent those people who would willingly put themselves in the line of fire out of a sense of national pride or duty. The destroyers, however, as child soldiers are almost all there out of desperation or terrible family circumstances.
The government, for its part, is just accepting it in a way that justifies it to the people doing the "recruiting" because they're desperate, too. If the world can only be saved by sending teenagers to fight, then sending them to foster homes will just wind up with those foster homes being destroyed. Sacrifices need to be made, needs of the many over the few, yada, yada, just keep your head down and do what needs to be done and try not to think too hard about it.
just like that Zeon guy in Gundam Thunderbolt who had his 4 limbs cut off to make himself eligible for Psycho Zaku, he dreamed of running along the beach when the cut off operation was going on.
It was pretty obvious that this was not on her own volition.
To see her family and siblings intending to send her away in front of our own eyes—
we concluded that to refuse taking her in would be, on the contrary, cruel to her.
Since the beginning, there were concerns that there would be parents
who'd sell their children for the compensation money.
But as of present, for a case like this to happen is truly unexpected in the initial stage.
We want YOU!
Don't you want to become "ship girls" and work for people's, this world's sake?
~Recruiting~ Women in their 10s-20s (Aptitude test required)
•Food, clothing and shelter guaranteed!
•We also accept consultation on compensation for your families!
↓First of all, please don't hesitate to come take an aptitude test at the following facilities↓
Shortly before the test, she didn't comprehend the risk that comes with the surgery.
It became clear that she misunderstood, and thought that she could turn back into a human and return to her family if she wanted.
It is thought that this is the cause of her retrospective personality after she became "Hatsuyuki".
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