@shermanchurchill: I get your point with Marimite, but Gloriana is slightly different, on account of their manners and refined calmness being basically a play on the British "stiff upper lip", to be calm, collected, and proper regardless of circumstances.
Obviously, our opinions on the subject differ, but I would like to mention one reason I failed to bring up before (because I was concentrating on Gloriana and Saunders) that made me dead-certain there is an element of role-play involved, and that is the Chi-Ha-Tan Academy, Kinuyo's school. They are acting the part so hard they are basically a parody of the Imperial Japanese Army, particularly their WWII doctrines. "Totsugeki! Totsugeki!" And it goes beyond just pure battlefield tactics in a game, those girls become genuinely emotionally frustrated when ordered not to attack, and to apply something other than suicidal charges. They also shout all the time instead of speaking normally, lol, if that is not role-playing WWII Japanese army, I do not know what it is.
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