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Originally Posted by Excalibur
You'd be surprise how much detail animes that have more emphasize on guns, they pay a lot of attention to the details of guns.
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Oh, no doubt. I'm not at all into anime, but every time I look at IMFDB's pages for anime series, I'm impressed with the level of detail that the artists put into the guns. You can tell they go out of their way to draw guns realistically.
That being said, the fact is that Japan doesn't have a real "gun culture" (just an airsoft/model gun culture). I used to post all the time on airsoft message boards, and I often found that Japanese airsofters I talked to knew almost nothing about firearms. For example, every Japanese kid knows what an MP5 or an M4 is, but if you talk about whether a Remington 870 or a Mossy 500 is a better shotgun, or whether or not the Ruger 10/22 is the best squirrel gun, they'd have no clue what you're talking about. That's because nobody makes those kinds of guns in airsoft, and if it's not made by airsoft manufacturers, they've never heard of it. Airsoft is pretty much their reference for everything, and as we've seen, airsoft manufacturers get lots of details wrong (especially in terms of naming) because they don't have easy access to the real thing. So my point is, I don't think you can expect them to know stuff like when Holosights were introduced.
BTW, I forgot another example: I remember when "Black Hawk Down" came out and every Japanese airsofter wanted to have an "M4" like the ones used in the movie. Never mind the fact that there aren't any real "M4s" in that movie (just like there weren't in real life, when the Battle of Mog took place). Tokyo Marui noticed how many airsofters were fans of "Black Hawk Down", and their response was to introduce their airsoft Model 733 carbine in 2002, which is the type of AR that's used by many of the Rangers in the movie. After that, you finally saw the airsofters referring, correctly, to the ARs in the movie as "M733s". But you see my point? Before Tokyo Marui introduced its M733, nobody in the airsoft community even knew what an M733 was. To them, any AR carbine was either an M4 or an XM177, because those were the only versions that Tokyo Marui manufactured as airsoft guns before 2002. No other AR carbines existed, as far as the airsoft community's collective conscience was concerned.