Sorry but when I saw this image I could not stop laughing. You may be wondering why, well technically the Roman legion did not like Nero because the latter almost never went to war and considered his soldiers like savages. Emperor Nero was so obsessed with art and poetry that he could not see himself as a dux bellorum and above all he had never had an experience on the battlefield.
The thing that makes me laugh at this image is that it seems that Nero was a great Roman general whom the soldiers loved, but in truth the legionaries detested Nero.
The only military campaign he did was in Armenia, the other military campaigns left them to the generals and perhaps this may explain the lack of trust Rome had in him, you must remember that the legion was the heart, the sword and the shield of the empire.
But maybe I'm too petulant, but it's funny to see that the Japanese don't know anything about European history and especially Roman history. All Nero fans who treat this character as a very successful Roman general are slightly (slightly) ignorant, that's all.
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