In my three episode preview of Senkou no Night Raid (Night Raid in a Flash / Night Raid 1931) I expressed my concerns over whether the series would sensitively deal with Japan’s questionable activities during that time period. I can safely say that it is all too aware of the feelings evoked by that era and is hyper cautious about stepping on anyones’ toes, perhaps even a little too cautious. For example, when it first aired, the series’ seventh episode was streamed rather than broadcast amidst rumours that the episode’s Japanese point of view on the events around the Mukden incident worried some TV executives.
at ideological odds to the hard scientific and political background the rest of the story has
That should give you an idea of the kind of emotions that, even 80 years later, revisiting 1930’s Japan can evoke. For America it may have been a time of prohibition and organised crime but in the prelude to the Second World War, Japan was embroiled in grand scale military imperialism in and around Korea and China. Buoyed by their successes during the Japan-Qing and the Russo-Japanese wars (the latter of which, bizarrely, was rather covered by the atrocious series Lime-Iro Senkitan), it’s at this turning point that Night Raid starts.
Mission six: Deadly Cargo. The second and final Rotterdam mission sees 47 assassinating a maniac on a cargo ship with a nuclear weapon in the midst of a special forces raid. The chaos may be all that's needed for one death to avert millions.
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Mission three: The Bjarkhov Bomb. A Siberian tundra holds a beached nuclear submarine with a dangerous bomb making facility within; Fabian Fuchs and rebel Commander Bjarkhov intend to strike a deal which could spell twenty kilotonnes of trouble.
Hitman Contracts contains mature content and is wholly unsuitable for minors, some of these videos also contain flashing lights; fairly warned be thee.
