Hear, hear!
That's a very good essay, general karadin -in fact it's so good that I can add nothing to it!^^
As I already said at the dears-community, in japanese pop-culture symbols like crosses, swastikas and uniforms are mainly used to transport certain feelings or values, like in a lot of manga or anime for example -it might just be a figurative thing to express a certain message and we should find out on our own, what the artist wants to tell us.