Just starting to watch the episodes (and haven't read the book), but little things like this spark my curiosity.
The flag is the rising sun with 12 blue rays(stripes) and 8 red stars. Does anybody know what the rays and stars stand for? Obviously it's a take on the original United states flag, but that's 13 stripes. Are there 8 states in the Pacific states? It includes BC Canada?
Thanks!
It appears that some or all of the land area of eight former American states are in the PSA (California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska), which presumably explains the number of stars. I don't have a good rationale for the 12 stripes though.
shareFlag has rays because it's how their flag looked like during WWII (Imperial flag)
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Yes, I'm very well aware of that. The question is why 12 rays? The real life Imperial Japanese flag had 16 rays, not 12.
sharePerhaps because it is a different Japan in a different timeline.
We do not know when the timelines split or if they ever did - it might 'just' be parallel universes with minor differences (and to be fair, this outcome of WWII really is just a minor difference in the grand scheme of things), so it is perfectly reasonable for the flag to be different due to a slightly different Japanese cultural history .