Military anime & manga

[unoduetre]

[mention=6444]Momogari[/mention] Thanks for the explanation. I'll focus on Alderamin on the Sky in this case.

[unoduetre]

I would point out that Akira meets most of your criteria.

1. Colonel Shikishima is the military leader of Neo-Tokyo, which includes the top secret psychic research facility guarded by soldiers.
2. Life of the soldiers are not shown, but some of them do die. They do not have unusual powers.
3. Neo-Tokyo is politically corrupt, but little of that is shown in the anime. The city's leaders blame the Colonel for the city's shabby state as he uses a lot of the city's funds to take care of the Espers. There is also a Resistance movement who had broken into the Nursery to kidnap Takashi and later helps Kaneda try to break in again to rescue Tetsuo.
4. We observe a recovery op for Takashi, which also nets them Tetsuo. Later, when Tetsuo begins his march to where Akira's remains are, we see military action attempting to stop him.
5. There is a resistance movement and Tetsuo does a one-man uprising through the city. After taking out an attack helicopter, a tank shoots at Tetsuo, he stops the shell and destroys the tank. Soldiers armed with bulky shoulder-fired lasers also attempt to stop him.

Both Tetsuo and Akira before him were basically walking psychic WMDs.

Macross also meets your guidelines.

@Expendable

You've made some interesting points, so let me answer them.

1. Yes, there is a military organisation. (a borderline case) An army with its structure is not shown. It's only mentioned. Almost no characters have a military rank. The chain of command is not shown.
2. The main characters are not soldiers. The life of a soldier is not shown. Organised groups of soldiers are rarely shown and their structure is not explained. The show focuses on gangs and politicians instead of groups of soldiers. You are right, some of the soldiers die and yes, soldiers do not have any superpowers.
3. Yes, politics is shown in the anime but it is not related to war etc. Yes, the resistance movement points in the direction of the military anime, but it is marginal in Akira.
4. What you've described are not military tactics or strategies, which focus on managing deployment, movement and a supply chain of big military units (e.g. squadrons etc.), but police tactics and disaster prevention tactics.
5. What happens in the city is a riot and not an armed uprising run by the resistance movement. No armies are fighting. Yes, some big weapons are used (e.g. helicopters, SOL), but they're used by one side only. Classifying people as WMDs is arguable and these people are not used by any army as weapons.

So although this show has some elements of a military anime, most of it is unrelated, so it's not a military anime

I have edited the previous post to make it clear that Akira contains elements of a military anime (but it's not one).

Yeah, the original Macross seems to meet the guidelines. That's why I classified it as a military anime. :-)

[unoduetre]

[mention=6444]Momogari[/mention] I think every Macross is different. Certainly, the franchise as a whole is not a military franchise, but parts of it might be. I think there are also purely idol parts of this franchise, he he. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I do not know this franchise well enough to discuss it any further.

[drill]

[mention=6444]Momogari[/mention], no didn't start that one yet. Looking forward to starting it though. Will try to do so this weekend.

[unoduetre]

Hi [mention=84697]drill[/mention]. Nice to meet you.

[drill]

Yep, nice to meet you too, unoduetre ^^

[mmertios]

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[WorldIsMine]

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[Momogari]

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