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Bringing a classic up to date for its 2 year anniversary
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I'm glad for that little shoutout to Goblin Slayer there that correctly associates it with fascist ideology and imagery :scared-fash:
In 2023 - it’s Harem in the Labrynth in another world or Worlds end harem.
Possibly Shield Hero.
In some versions of that incel power fantasy trash, the false rape accuser character is (CW: extreme sexual violence)
spoiler
raped to death and dismembered before a cheering crowd and it's presented as poetic justice.:agony-4horsemen:
I stopped during the first episode.
It seemed like it could have been okay with the multi-verse.
But then the false rape accusations followed by slavery, I just couldn’t.
It gets worse. So much worse. And of course the slavery is presented as justified and a good thing that makes the slaves happy as long as the master is mediocre enough to be not too cruel to his slaves.
Some good stories came from "isekai" concepts (Visions of Escaflowne, and in non-anime/manga, The Neverending Story) but it's being strip mined as a genre into spank bank power fantasies with :freeze-gamer: characteristics over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again now. :pathetic:
I miss how the OG isekai involving mainly schoolgirls were just far better because they didn't pander as though their audience were just grungy r@pe gremlins, Miyazaki was right anime was a big fucking mistake
Ah. Yeah. I’ve met fans of these shows at anime groups.
There are 2 types -
The kind who have no media literacy on this because they just like seeing cool fireballs and are somewhere on the spectrum (normally mentioned early on)
The guys who really like that shit, but they mostly try to talk at cis-women about it and don’t take mild suggestions as topics try and shift. They tend to get banned soon after as a hazard.
I usually hear "IN THE LORE" as an excuse for everything, or even "THAT IS EMPOWERING ACTUALLY BECAUSE SHE GETS POWERFUL WHEN SHE FIGHTS FOR SENPAI" and other :kombucha-disgust: arguments.
Love when the lore simply is and had no human write it.
Thermian arguments intensify :so-true:
Ulysses please leave Robespierre out of this.
This is some nerd kind of joke, really appreciated!
THIS FUCKING TRASH :agony-4horsemen:
Kino
These are actual mask-off names for incel slop now. :agony-4horsemen:
Yeah. Anime has “advanced “ past Goblin Slayer and into full on jerk off while having a power fantasy shows. That get simulcast in the US streaming. So some poor fuckers scramble to get out subtitles on these shows.
I keep hearing how there's "plenty" of non-cryptofascist incel pandering slop in the industry, but it rarely gets funding, attention, or for that matter reach compared to the cryptofascist incel pandering slop coming out at the same time more and more year after year. :doomer:
The biggest shows last year were: Demon slayer (plz don't confuse, this one is about 1 good boy empathetically killing rich people allegories), Kaguya-sama: love is war, spyxfamily, Lycoris recoil, chainsaw man, bocchi the rock! and Gundam: Witch from Mercury.
Chainsaw man and Gundam have heavy leftist themes. Lycoris recoil is gay, and along with demon slayer are heavily action oriented shows. The rest are cute comedies aimed at normal people. Bocchi was a word-of-mouth smash hit, but the rest of these shows had marketing budgets that probably dwarfed the entire production budget of something like World's end harem.
All the thinly veiled far right isekai stories usually originate from studios desperate to adapt self-published webnovels in the chase for that sweet sweet sword art online money (goblin slayer, shield hero), but they're finding that well to be dry cos those stories only got "popular" because only terminally online Nazi's read them, and the mainstream continues to be dominated by Weekly Shone Jump adaptations because WSJ has editors.
And even in that web novel space there's push-back-we just had an isekai where the protagonist does the radical action of... Killing slavers and emancipating slaves. (reincarnated as a sword) edit: So I wouldn't get all doomer about anime just yet. Until something like goblin slayer gets into WSJ, things haven't gotten that bad.
I never finished Goblin slayer but I never saw it as fascist but I can totally see how fash would latch onto it
(guy who cannot fathom criticizing art outside of its own text)
:frothingfash: it only shows that stuff because the goblins are evil like havnt you watched the show
According to the lore the goblins can not be reasoned with and they even did a sexual violence in the first episode therefore unlimited genocide is justified and good and funny! :so-true:
SMH I can't believe the goblins are white liberal coded
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