Nihonkoku Shoukan
Japan Summons

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This manga is jingoistic slop that splatters in sprinkles of bland, disposable characters which it will kill off the moment it gets time to engage a sense of technological or moral superiority. That, or provide cheap, crass fanservice.

There are no reoccuring characters with notable personalities. Characters exist to either fellate nationalistic pride, engage in cheap titillation for the readers, or to poorly deliver scraps of exposition. Overarching politics or worldbuilding which you would expect to replace characters in a story with this is practically nonexistent - countries are the closest thing you have to consistent characters in this manga, and they exist either to serve ... in sopping subservience to a culturally/technologically superior nation, or as crude, inhumane and barbaric agitators to a morally superior nation.

There is no time devoted to exploring the cultural shock of being transposed into another world. There is no time spent exploring the impacts of that; any issues with resources are solved in the first few chapters, and mentioned in single passing pages. Language barriers only exist in writing to be brushed aside in a couple pages of exposition. Any moral or legislature issue will be rushed through in a few pages to show more explosions, if it is not taking time to make the most cartoonish, buffoonish cariactures possible for the reader to laugh at, or leer at attractive women in various states of dress and undress. Any potential issues of civillian casualties does not exist, or is ignored.

All you will get with this is jingoistic pride of modern weapons blowing up less technologically advanced civilisations, and should serve those interested in seeing some semi-faithfully researched modern weapons being used. Maybe that's enough for you, but I found myself increasingly annoyed with the wasted potential of a premise that could be deeply interesting if the author was interested in engaging in more complex themes. The art is passable though not visually particularly interesting at any point. The core concept is appealing, but it turns from poorly to offensively executed as the story goes on.

This is not for everyone. In fact, this employs common tropes that are common in isekai.

But my, what power fantasy is this.

If not just pew pew, boom boom, there are a lot of element of diplomacy which is central in modern military as well. You can attack everyone to gain supremacy but modern weaponries are expensive. You also need trade to support modern living, which is why alliance is important.

The only problem I see, the are just firing precious expensive ammunitions that are hard if not impossible to reproduce, since most of military tech in democratic countries(including Japan) comes a lot from joint work with ... other countries. The replenishment of those are not going to be easy, if possible at all.

For the drawings, all the characters... doesn't look that good, but recognizable. However, buildings and environments looked amazing most of the time.

This manga actually operates on an interesting, though not entirely novel, premise - what would happen if the entirety of Japan gets summoned, to a fairly average isekai world?

How would the Japanese deal with being cut of from all of their trading partners, facing massive shortages in virtually every type of product? How would the hundreds of thousands of foreigners, including some large foreign US-military bases, react? Would there be massive civil unrest?

Well apparently none of this seems to matter as this manga focuses exclusively on the foreign affairs that come with Japan trying to establish it's new place in this world. While this focus ... is fine in principle, all of the interactions with countries follow a single formula. The formula of this manga is as follows: Weak country in isekai world get's attacked by strong country -> Japan comes in and slaughteres all of the "insurgents" who do not know about the existence of modern weaponry-> Yayy go Japan.

This is very similar to that gate anime from 2015 as in it is blatant military propaganda however this story is lacking any form of character writing as there seems to be no main nor significant supporting characters.

The art isn't bad in particular but there haven't been any panels that shocked me or anything.

TLDR: Military story for those who want to see Japan kick some medieval/early-industrialization ass. The weaponry used seems to be researched well so this might be something for those interested in military technology.