watched the first couple eps with my partner after watching the Roman legion vs modern defensive position scene on youtube.

once we realized the whole show was just about a brutal power imbalance and the JSDF curb stomping fantasy Rome-China, we checked out. it's just a neo-con fantasy but instead of Iraq it's fantasy Rome-China and waifu liberation. yeah it's a slave society being liberated, that's cool, but the stakes just weren't there. can't have the military take a scratch like it was a recruiting commercial

better fix would be: gate opens, Rome-China kills civilians (canon), JSDF storms gate, sets up firebase (canon), crushes conventional scout army (canon), then Rome-China deploys sorcerers, dragons, monsters and modern humans have to think on their feet, find allies, and prevent a million-strong magic army from breaching the Gate and overrunning Earth (not-canon, but BETTER).

only cool thing was the show unabashedly showed the U.S. doing brutal imperialism openly, attacking allies (Japan) militarily, and being led by (not) Trump.

in my version, I could totally see the U.S. allying with Rome-China, trading tech for magic, and fight this awesome multi-dimensional techno-arcane world war