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I stopped reading not long after the Basement Reveal but the real bad guys were revealed to be a very, very, obvious nazi analogue. Trying to call it fascist is a huge stretch, and I've only seen this argument on SA.
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Everyone should just read JJBA and enjoy. Pt8 is a fuckin trip.
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Isayama isn’t old-school, print-it-on-the-page racist like George “Philippinos are monkeys and we did nothing wrong in the War” Morikawa is but AOT does get weird anytime the Japanese characters appear. There’s a scene recently which explicitly serves to set the Japanese character aside from the rest of a crowd and it just feels like it’s leading up to something. I dunno. AOT is still a good manga with a lot to say for itself, and the pivot from Before Basement (BB) to After Basement (AB) has been remarkable.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Everyone should just read JJBA and enjoy. I've been giving it a while to build back up, last time I read was like, the weird bathroom scene with Joshu.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Everyone should just read JJBA and enjoy. I really want to get started on reading pt5. and onwards but I just can never find time to read it - I wish I could read it during my commute but I don't really love reading stuff off my phone.
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I think Japanese creators can easily muddle the ideas of race, ethnicity, nationality, and culture in their work. Japan is the closest thing to an actual ethnostate that exists, and that makes it easy to not think much about the difference between those things. This doesn't mean creators can't be genuinely racist or nationalist, but there is a blind spot in Japanese society that easily leads to a sort of unconsidered cultural essentialism. It's just something to keep in mind when considering how the work reflects on the author.Gyro Zeppeli posted:Everyone should just read JJBA and enjoy. Agreed, everyone should read the Best Manga by Best Mangaka.
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Blockhouse posted:every time this thread talks [...] it falls off a loving cliff
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Oxyclean posted:I really want to get started on reading pt5. and onwards but I just can never find time to read it - I wish I could read it during my commute but I don't really love reading stuff off my phone. Pt5 is amazing now there's a better translation. Top 3, imo.
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Neo_Crimson posted:I stopped reading not long after the Basement Reveal but the real bad guys were revealed to be a very, very, obvious nazi analogue. Trying to call it fascist is a huge stretch, and I've only seen this argument on SA. Yeah, as a leftie that thinks nazis should be punched on sight, I really wasn't bothered by AoT's "nationalism" at all. Whenever it looked like it would get weird, we'd get a reminder that actually, war isn't cool and people in power are still psychopaths. Seems like a "haven't read it, don't like it" complaint to me, unless the Japanese painting themselves as special especially weirds you out. Blockhouse posted:yes, clearly that's the only reason anyone could ever possibly dislike it Show your work then. 
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AOT is great especially now but One Piece has always been amazing barring the dragged-out finale of dressrosa it's a shame pat tried to power through the anime, which is trash fire garbage because Toei Animation, instead of reading the manga, which is wonderful Oda has also successfully made Big Mom as threatening and dangerous as an Emperor should be. She's a big fat old lady who is politically conniving, absurdly strong, incredibly callous and wildly unpredictable. Her backstory is drat good and surprisingly horrific, moreso than even most One Piece backstories, and a lot of the current arc has been spent just trying to redirect her uncontrollable raging hunger, which it turns out she is still fully conscious during. Oda is a master at taking silly, harmless looking characters like this:  and still manages to give her a menacing air despite the cartoonishness.  and gives them a lot of interesting style, like how all of Big Mom's islands are Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs-esque food islands, with cities and ships made of candy and sentient sweets, like a nightmarish candyland 
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hoobajoo posted:Japan is the closest thing to an actual ethnostate that exists Japan's claim to near ethnic purity comes because the government defines ethnicity as being the same as nationality. So like, there's no such thing as Ainu or Ryukyuans, just Japanese. The non-Japanese it recognizes are only those literally from somewhere else (Koreans, Chinese, Westerners, whatever). Unless you're defining just ethnostate as a state that prefers the majority ethnicity in which case join the club Japan. Rody One Half fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jan 8, 2018 |
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hoobajoo posted:Japan is the closest thing to an actual ethnostate that exists 
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Rodyle posted:uhhhh well no actually, not at all! I did take the 98% or whatever statistic at face value, so you're probably right, thanks for telling me that. But it does support my larger point about Japan muddling nationality and ethnicity as a problem. Israel isn't as ethnically homogenous as Japan, or so I thought, so that's why I said what I said. I don't think this is the place to debate this in depth, so I'll drop it.
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Israel is literally an ethnostate by design, homogeneity doesn't actually matter for being a political ethnostate.
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In conclusion, Japan is a land of contrasts.
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So uh... how about them Best Friends?
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What the gently caress is End of Zoe where a redneck can solo entire waves of enemies that Chris can barely handle
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Tae posted:What the gently caress is End of Zoe where a redneck can solo entire waves of enemies that Chris can barely handle chris is very bad at his job, to be fair
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Tae posted:What the gently caress is End of Zoe where a redneck can solo entire waves of enemies that Chris can barely handle RE is so loving dumb, I love it
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Tae posted:What the gently caress is End of Zoe where Makes sense to me. Hey, that's two LPs that have the actual, real Santa Claus in them. Couple weeks late, but that's fine.
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Tae posted:What the gently caress is End of Zoe where a redneck can solo entire waves of enemies that Chris can barely handle We already went through some random guy going through 40 acres of monsters and infected people. Joe's got the bonus of being old, which makes him even hardier than chumps like SBR Chris Redfield. Old people are tough. Just look at Left 4 Dead. Or any Kung fu movie.
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Supersonic Shine posted:Joe Baker is directly responsible for the death of a man who was just trying to cure his niece, but drat if it ain't a treat to watch him splatter fungus zombies with his bare hands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jJ3sjbp2M I hope all of the DLC gets compilated together.
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Rhonne posted:Jack Baker for MVCI.
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Rodyle posted:oh barf a whole day of episodes wasted rodyle...
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Joe with Jack assist where he drives on screen in his car and starts doing donuts all over.
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just read mob psycho 100. it just ended so u can marathon it.
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Depths posted:rodyle... Yeah turns out I was wrong: Matt played some Berseria.
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Under the vegetable posted:Where is the podcast Weather delayed their flights back home, they're going to record the podcast at 2pm EST.
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Score.
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I love how Resident Evil 7 took the series back to its survival horror roots, but eventually bounced back to action hero monster-mashing with DLC revolving around a crazy, mostly unarmed old man who eventually gets a loving Iron Man gauntlet and punches his mutated brother’s entire torso off.
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