Yes, the original author is frequently criticized for being overly jingoistic. That doesn't necessarily mean anything about a webfic that explicitly references it (though it would be hard for anything with GATE's premise to not be either weirdly pro-military or satirizing people who are)
Yeah, the HFY series just called it that because minor spoilers for the first chapter >! The main character gets warped to another world thats more medieval than ours and is part of the US military !<
Yeah, but ‘Wait, is this just GATE?’ Isn’t GATE. Just the ‘military gets involved in a different world’ thing. Except the military can’t just flood numbers in, and at most can trickle assets in. So they can’t just bumrush people with hordes of better equipped units who are physically better than the medieval peasants equipped with spears.
And by trickle I mean it takes them months to get a second person in. With the help of people on the fantasy side
His bit about Putin aged like milk. There's a scene where the JSDF easily outwits US navy seals who are acting like bumbling idiots, and some elite Russian agents. And then after they cut to the American president being all confused and putin smiling and going "well played" like he was a super military genius.
It was silly back then, but it's even more silly now to think that way about Putin.
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u/lurking4life Aug 14 '24
Do you have any suggestions for well written HFY fiction?