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Kit Walker posted:I mean, Darling in the Franxx is about a dystopian future where a handful of people rule over absolutely everyone and society at large basically does nothing at all because they’re immortal and willingly isolating themselves. The protagonists are a bunch of teens who are taught next to nothing about sex or adulthood and are used to fight creatures that interfere with humanity harvesting a source of near-infinite energy that both sustains the remnants of humanity and has caused virtually the entire planet to die Try reading this paragraph back to yourself, maybe? Or are you not familiar with aliens as an allegory for foreigners in sci-fi?
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:What is it callled? Please, I must know. Might be thinking of Kantai Collection there, although IIRC, the odd Allied warship has started to show up on the good guys’ side.
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Relevant Tangent posted:You could have just said anime. There’s a small but growing market of woke anime. The new season of Gegege no Kitarō explains to primary school kids why people shouldn’t be judged for having corrective plastic surgery, why it’s OK to be bisexual, why it’s not OK to stalk people, and why diamond industry executives deserve to be mobbed to death by their slave-workers.
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Jul 16, 2018 16:56
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Kit Walker posted:At least one of the protagonists was gay and is also the one who figures out the cure for their accelerated aging and probably like 90% of the technology they use after they stop using the energy source that’s literally killing the planet The queer-coded pilots are inferior copies of the main female lead who are treated as disposal both in-universe and out - after they get slaughtered defending the evil aliens (complete with some kind of uncomfortable rape imagery), the survivors sacrifice themselves for the main heterosexual couple when their unnatural lives start coming to an end. The one lesbian character is prematurely aged in another act of self-sacrifice, and while she is implied to end up with another woman, it’s in the same scene where she’s bedridden and apparently dying, in another apparent act of self-sacrifice (the cure she found for the accelerated aging came too late for her). The only queer-coded character who gets a completely, unambiguously happy ending is a guy with a crush on the male lead who gets over it and becomes part of one of the main heterosexual couples. You’re focusing way too much on what the show says rather than what it does.
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Jul 16, 2018 18:13
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chitoryu12 posted:Is this just Pacific Rim? Mostly, it’s Evangelion/Gurren Lagann/Gunbuster fanfiction by a guy who got lucky enough to work with actual ex-Gainax staff members, but I’m not ruling out there being a tiny bit of Pacific Rim in there.
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Jul 16, 2018 18:40
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chitoryu12 posted:The plot synopsis and setting sound literally identical to Pacific Rim with added anime weirdness. It’s shared ancestry. GDT was a big enough weeb to take inspiration from many of the same classic mecha shows this did. In particular, the paired pilots both stories have are from the Eighties anime Gunbuster, although DITF makes the relationship symbolism a lot more explicit.
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Jul 16, 2018 18:58
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Silver2195 posted:There's a lot of those. Most recently, the New Life+ anime got cancelled when the LN (WN?) author made racist comments online and people realized that the LN/WN was full of dogwhistles glorifying Japanese atrocities in WWII. Specifically, the protagonist’s backstory had a lot of cutesy numerical references to the Rape of Nanking. Also, the director of MMO Junkie, a sweet and entirely inoffensive romcom that attracted considerable critical acclaim for the job he’d done adapting it, suffered an incredibly fast fall from grace when he turned out to be a straight-up Nazi. There’s also Gate, Highschool of the Dead, Yuki Yuna is a Hero, and probably a fair few others.
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Jul 17, 2018 05:14
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NikkolasKing posted:Wasn't Highschool of the Dead just about zombies? Or was there something more overtly Far Right about it? The parents of one of the main characters in HSOTD were heroic far-right nationalists (directly compared to snivelling, cowardly lefties in the chapters they showed up in), and several prominent Korean celebrities had unflattering cameos. And remember that anime is a medium, not a genre. It’s literally just ‘all animated stories from Japan’. Assigning a single philosophy to all of it is extremely dumb and faintly racist.
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Jul 17, 2018 10:50
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chitoryu12 posted:Death of the Author is for hacks who aren't creating anything but want to feel like they are. Eh, I think it’s entirely possible for an author to include a strong, consistent message that they never intended. Think of, say, the Save the Pearls series, a supposedly anti-racist story that turned out super racist. Or the innumerable characters who accidentally ended up as gay icons.
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hackbunny posted:*a quick image search later* I mean, GGGNK is kids’ edutainment. The official product, at least, is unlikely to be gross (although we all know the fandom can be quite another matter). For the record, the latest episode calls out the Japanese education system for glossing over the country’s bad behaviour in World War II, which is very in-keeping with the original author’s politics. quote:However, in 1942, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army and sent to New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea. His wartime experiences affected him greatly, as he contracted malaria, watched friends die from battle wounds and disease, and dealt with other horrors of war. Finally, in an Allied air raid, he was caught in an explosion and lost his dominant (left) arm. Regarding this life-changing event, a Nov. 30, 2015 NHK announcement of his death showed excerpts of a video interview with him at age 80, in which he said that as the only survivor of his unit, he was 'ordered to die' — a prospect he considered ridiculous. The result of Mizuki's wartime experience was a concurrent sense of pacifism and goodwill. In the same interview, he explained that his Yōkai characters can be seen only in times of peace, not war, and that he purposely created these supernatural creatures to be of no specific ethnicity or nationality as a hint of the potential for humanity. While in a Japanese field hospital on Rabaul, he was befriended by the local Tolai tribespeople, who offered him land, a home, and citizenship via marriage to one of their women. Mizuki acknowledged that he considered remaining behind, but was shamed by a military doctor into returning home to Japan first for medical treatment to his arm and to face his parents, which he did reluctantly. Darth Walrus has a new favorite as of 10:04 on Aug 16, 2018 |
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