The Breakdown

  • Honor and duty drive the story
  • Hand-drawn dogfights still hold up
  • Subtle anti-fascist bite without lectures
  • Adult themes, zero moral inversion
  • Romance subplot stays light

Side Effects

ancestors nodding, fascism ratio'd in the adriatic

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