Artistic Forces/Josei Guntai

"私たちは前線の女子ですよ！"

- The voice when the Joshi Guntai is selected in the Campaign mode. The Joshi Guntai or Joshi-Gun for short is one of the factions of Artistic Forces.

Description
Formed by the female personnel who are anime-esque teenage girls and young adult women, including the former J-pop idols, the Joshi Guntai, consisting of Joshi Rikugun (army), Joshi Kaigun (navy) and Joshi Kugun (air force), is a derivative of the Rising Sun Self-Defense Force and the eastern hemisphere of Animatopia that went their feminine ways from the mostly dominated men. Unlike the Rising Sun Self-Defense Force, which originally and exclusively recruited for the nursing services, and minorly populated as female personnel who are permitted and admitted to join the armed forces, they have recruitments in many different roles of its military personnel than the exclusivity for medications in favor of militarization of girls and women to dominate this faction, leading to their gender independence.

To add these factional perspectives, they honorably scorn the traits of Yandere, referring to a person who is sweetly kind at first, only to go unstable, obsessive, and violent when it comes to their beloved, and their military usually specializes such of these tactics: otaku stuff, anime-influenced ties, moe anthropomorphic militarization, modern and advanced Japanese technologies, raw tried-and-tested firepower, improvised weaponry and the most important of all is providing Mecha Musume and the old, modern arsenal of military equipment, including weapons, vehicles, aircraft and vessels that are either no longer used, replaced with something new or currently in use by the JSDF. For those who want to perform special force operations within Joshi Rikugun, they wear Hitaikakushi on their heads, and their program is the Yurei ops, specializing sneaky and special tactics. Also, the armored divisions of their army specialize and perform the vehicular martial art of Sensha-dō, which is usually exclusive for girls or women who start practicing it as early as from elementary school up to high school, university and adulthood, and involves the use of tanks as their vehicular weapons.

With the pink cherry blossom and the magenta star at their respective sides as their symbols, the first one represents spring, a time of renewal, and the fleeting nature of life that make people merry, and the second one represents something beautiful, good and positive as well as its military strength. For their colors, pink is the color of universal love of oneself and others, and the sweet side of red that represents friendship, affection, harmony, inner peace, and approachability, while magenta represents universal love at the highest level, promotes compassion, kindness and cooperation, and encourages a sense of self respect and contentment in those who actually use it. Besides, both pink and magenta are the favorite colors for women and girls alike.

History
TBA

Tactics
As the main war tactics of the Joshi Guntai, it uses the modern warfare, otaku ties, advanced technology, raw-and-proved firepower, military reserve, and even the reliance of old and modern military assets, mainly Japanese and American military arsenals that their vehicular, naval, and aerial units are based on. They were also trained the vehicular art of Sensha-dō, which is very useful for tanks as their vehicular weapons to fight against their enemies. The Joshi Guntai heavily employ promotional otaku stuff on the battlefield to inspire their infantrywomen, and their numerous troops have defended themselves with a sisterhood zeal.

The Joshi Guntai has dominantly recruited and militarized only teenage girls and young women, mainly from elementary schools, high schools, universities, Japanese idol groups, private military contractors, Eastern hemisphere of Animatopia, and even cosplayers, as well as other forms of the Japanese youth culture. However, unlike the other faction, they independently do not admit men because of their factional policy regarding to their gender independence, preventing the misleading of their faction, similar to the dating ban of the Japanese idol groups, which is a form of criticism for bringing minors at risk in Japanese youth culture. So it means to say that this is considerably became one of the few factions that exclusively allow only females as recruits, the other ones are Yami Musume, their darker counterpart, and Kemonomimi, their anthropomorphic counterpart with animal ears.

Like most factions, some buildings of the Joshi Guntai require more power to provide and operate via Solar Generators, Wind Reactors, Power Plants, JT-60 Reactors or QUEST Reactors.

In general, most units of the Joshi Guntai are either cheap or expensive to train and produce, but technologically superior due to the Japanese one. For example, their Mecha Musume and shipgirls are productively assembled with mechanical parts, and getting prepared upon leaving the Mecha Musume production buildings (Mecha Musume Depots, Rotor Stations, Supply Storehouses, and Airbases) and Kantai Docks respectively. This means that these types of female units have firepower and armor, compared to other technologically advanced and improved factions. In order to provide extra firepower, armor, and abilities for each unit, some units need to be improved by purchasing important upgrades from Cosplay Arsenals, Research Centers, Internet Popularity Centers, and Chemical Reaction Factories, making them quite better, stronger and powerful.

Technological level
With a strong Japanese technology, the Joshi Guntai has highly improved its technological advantage and capabilities to be advanced, as well as Mecha Musume and shipgirls, and comparable to other hi-tech and more modern factions like the SDA, ESU, RSSDF and TDF.

Some technologies used by the Joshi Guntai:


 * 1) Advanced Japanese technology
 * 2) Advanced Mecha Musume
 * 3) Advanced technologies of the shipgirls
 * 4) Advanced naval technology
 * 5) Advanced aerial technology
 * 6) Sensha-dō
 * 7) Advanced internet technology
 * 8) Advanced satellite technology
 * 9) Listening outposts
 * 10) Technological messaging
 * 11) Internet popularity
 * 12) Advanced chemical substances
 * 13) Extra destructive firepower

Commanders

 * Field General Himeko Sakuragi (桜木姫子): Supreme Commander of the Joshi Guntai
 * General Kaede Wakamatsu (若松楓): Joshi Guntai Female Legion Commander
 * General Ayumi Rinzaki (凛崎あゆみ): Joshi Rikugun Mecha Musume and Army Commander
 * Brigadier Tanaka Yuzuki (柚月田中): Joshi Rikugun Yurei Ops Commander
 * Admiral Chinami Kai (会ちなみ): Joshi Kaigun Shipgirl and Naval Commander
 * Air Marshal Ume Sakurai (桜井梅): Joshi Kugun Air Commander
 * Lieutenant General Naoko Matsumoto (松本直子): Joshi Guntai Expeditionary Force Commander

Agents

 * Yurika Shiryou (しりょうゆりか): Yurei Ops Leader (hero unit)
 * Asumi Yamato (大和あすみ): Joshi Guntai Expeditionary Force Land Agent (hero unit)
 * Kimiko Adachi (足立君子): Joshi Guntai Marine Agent (hero unit)
 * Sakurako Hanamizuki (花見月桜子): Terrain Agent (hero unit)
 * Maoko Ichimonji (一文字真央子): Communications Officer (announcer)

Trivia

 * The Japanese term Joshi Guntai (Hiragana: じょしぐんたい, Kanji: 女性軍隊) literally means "the woman/girl army" or "woman/girl armed force."
 * Joshi Guntai is basically inspired by the Sisters of Battle (also known as the "Sisterhood" or Adepta Sororitas) from Warhammer 40k as an all-female faction, and Japanese youth culture, such as Japanese idol, Akishibu-kei and cosplay.
 * Joshi Guntai is one of 3 factions whose factional personnel are all-female only. However, these factions are all monolingual, with Japanese as their officially factional language, as well as some factions, like the S.D.A, with English as their dominantly official language.
 * Joshi Guntai is based on the Japanese popular culture and Self-Defense Forces, but with Moe, Shojo and female military personnel. Most units and buildings of this faction are the inspirations of anime, manga, video games, toys and novels.
 * In addition, these anime, novel, video game, toy and manga titles include:
 * Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan
 * Girls und Panzer
 * Puella Magi Madoka Magica
 * Ground Defense Force! Mao-chan
 * Marine Corps Yumi
 * Girls' Frontline
 * Azure Lane
 * Kantai Collection
 * Outbreak Company
 * Armed Girl's Machiavellism
 * Little Armory
 * With kawaii voices, many American voice actresses for this faction, including units, buildings, and the announcer herself, are soundly more akin to the female Japanese voice actors or seiyuus like Aoi Yuki, Miyuki Sawashiro, Misaki Kuno, Rie Takahashi, Yugi Iguchi, Aki Toyosaki, Sumire Uesaka, etc.