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Ultra hyper slop
Never understood the hype

>>29585
>slop slop! everything I don't like is slop!
Do you /pol/uyghurs read books or what?
>hype
It was hype because Monty was hype due to him having excellent fight choreography and this being his personal project (originally). Additionally RoosterTeeth wasn't always a gay-liberal big company, it used to be machinima, a group of indie youtubers making all sorts of stuff, fanprojects like Red Vs Blue, various group game plays and RWBY was their first major original animation project. Obviously the show is far from perfect, especially in later Volumes, but still fun for many people.

>>29581
SATURDAY STREAM!
RWBY: Ice Queendom STREAM! . Stream will be tomorrow, 9AM East Coast USA Time. Same double chan cytube link as usual!

RWBY chibi is absolute puke

>>29701
No u

>>29644
abysmal dogshit huh

>>29644
>i kinda get why an autist would like it
Self-loathing? The irredeemably evil demons are pretty blatantly autism coded.

>>29648
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>>29648
I've only seen the anime and not the manga so I can't say if this changes in the manga but the demons are different from a lot evil races I have seen in fantasy. I think the most obvious comparison would be to Tolkien's orcs. Orcs are a cruel, savage race full of hatred of all others including there own kind, they only stop killing each other when facing down a foe they hate even more. Now let's compare that with demon society in Frieren, the thing that keeps demon in order with each other is there mana level, when one demon meets another they instantly know who is the more powerful one and which is the weaker one and thus interaction will happen with both parties knowing where they stand with out the need of bloodshed. And this causes demon society to be hierarchy with the demons with the strongest mana to be on top, this is why someone suppressing there mana would unthinkable to them. Orcs have something similar but they only know who is the strongest through bloodshed.

Now with Orcs there is the question of their humanity. In the books they are mostly treated as fodder for the heros to kill through, but Tolkien gave them some humanity. First with their creation story that they were once elves then later men taken and twisted by Morgoth into these hate filled things. And yet they still have a sense of good and bad, when Gorbag in the Two Towers comments that abandoning a comrade to be an elvish trick, ie something bad. Even Tolkien says they were rational creatures, even if they were heavily corrupted. This caused a serious dilemma for Tolkien because if they were to be treated as fodder and slaughtered with out mercy you would be just as bad the orcs you oppose. And on the other hand if they are rational beings at heart, just heavily corrupted, that leaves the door open for mercy and even redemption.

Now with Frieren the demons are shown to have no emotion and half no understanding of human concepts of right and wrong. With the main character Frieren exposing to show them no mercy and calling for their extermination. They presented as animals with mouths. And yet the story shows there is more to these creatures than under first inspection. Like when Lügner calls Fern's mana suppression a crime against magic, or Aura showing joy and later fear, and the demon child killing the mayor leaving his kid orphaned because a couple in the town lPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>29699
>fear
they show fear to create empathy onto their human ennemy
also they don't have a society,most demons basically never interact with one another unless they need more muscle,they litterally abandon their children at birth,there are no records of romantic coupling
the demon king army was as cohesive as the average skaven army,if they could flee they ran away,if they can kill another demon to claim their victories,they do.
this doesn't even end up sprouting a nonsensical society like the exemple I'm comparing them to,since there is no longer the demon king to rally a semblance of them,it ended up creating a powe vacuum so big they basically returned to the wild and no real leader rose up.
the only connection we know is that despite being monsters,and thus made of mana and just disappearing when dead,they apparently have a soul,but if someone has any idea what that imply I would like to know.
Also they more or less don't interact with each other rather than hurt each other,but we do have an example of one demon betraying another and backstabbing them
and what I say goes to the chapter 122 something so huuuuuuh

I hope i marry someone like her ;_;

it's ashita no joe duh

>>29690
LOTGH or some weird shit like revolutionary girl utena

I know this thread is a joke but I'm gonna go serious mode

if Legend of Kamui got an anime that would be it, but it didn't (and from what I've heard the live-action adaptation removed the super political elements)
>>29691
I'd say Joe's ultimately more about rejecting capitalist pursuits and shallow materialistic living in general on an individual basis, not really fighting to change the world. new left students liked the idea of Rikishi throwing away his rich high-class boxing celeb privileges to take on an outcast hobo like Joe for obvious reasons… but ultimately he did it for the individual drive to face a respected rival on equal grounds, not to dedicate himself to overthrowing the system that made Joe poor & alienated & only capable of feeling anything through boxing to begin with.

like, it's pretty shonen-brained. I guess you could say it's more anarchistic but I don't think it was offering any specific ideological solution; it doesn't even say "boxing is good" or "boxing is bad", it just shows both the self-destructive elements and how it can be a deeply validating dedication for outsiders.

It was more appealing to a general "fuck modern society" malaise felt at the time. Worth noting is Yukio Mishima was as huge a fan as the plane hijackers.
>>29692
LOTGH nah and there's already a thread. Utena not really, there's a reason the movie didn't show what the "post-revolution" world would've entailed.

>>28970
It was kino, especially Day 2

What's your opinion on this autistic baddie? (ruruneneru)

>>29014
I think an llm programmed by a guy named Vedal

I'm slowly losing attachment to hololive with so much of Myth/Promise gone, even though the ones who left weren't my favorites. I'm not saying that Advent and Justice are bad, just that I've spent 5 years mostly watching the former 2 .

>>29620
>he had these right wing views for decades
I mean, didn't he say something along the lines of "it was more about just wanting to see the system destroyed than any specific worldview" regarding his Zenkyoto days? I suspect it may have been similar with some other guys from that generation >>29610 even if
others were more radical about it at the time. I'm not sure where this "Oshii's work was always turbo leftist" meme comes from beyond a desire to "claim" creators for internet argument points (similar to right-wingers saying K-On is "on their side" or whatever). I've seen multiple people jump through hoops to maintain Oshii's fandom status as a "valuable progressive ally" and suddenly go "well actually very possible to have his chud gamer views on PC culture & still be a leftist". Mind you I think it's true and there are people who still maintain more fundamental left-wing views while saying stuff like that… but not only is Oshii not one of them, this usually comes from people who'd usually never tolerate such comments unless for the purpose of defending a conclusion "the community" already came to.
>im not surprised his first time ever attending a government meeting was sanae takaichi
What about Takashi Murakami, though? He was the other guy at the meeting who's relevant to anime and he doesn't strike me as a partisan right winger. For the record I know some people think takes like "Yoshinori Kanada's fire dragon has roots in classic Japanese art, like Hokusai's Fine Wind, Clear Morning" are nationalistic & right wing but 1. Isao Takahata had similar takes regarding manga's roots in old Japanese prints and he was a lifelong leftist and 2. thinking the idea that Japan has a culture is "dangerous nationalism" is silly neurotic idpol - especially since the retort from American academics & people like Eiji Otsuka tends to be "no, manga/anime were actually inspired by the Americans and Soviets" and from a left-wing perspective, giving America so much credit should be equally "problematic" (mind you it's all of those - they had their own cultural history of telling stories through art & mixed it with western influence like American comic paneling and soviet montage theory etcPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>29621
That entire debate sounds retarded to me, there are primordial examples of "sequential art" from all over the world, but everybody knows that nearly everything we lump under comics today (including manga) would not exist, period, without English and American influence. Is it bad leftism now to admit that the countries with most soft power in history have had an enormous influence on other cultures?
It's arguing over whether the final American influence on manga is 10% or 20% or 80% that seems impossible to logically quantify AND has no meaning other than cryptopol culture war shitflinging.

>>29622
No, I just think it's dumb to *completely dismiss* the influence of older Japanese art because "it would encourage nationalism to make such a connection, given Japan's history" when such a big part of the retort tends to be "well actually no, it was American influence!" - no it's not objectively quantifiable, yes sequential storytelling in its modern form in Japan would not exist without America, but part of why it stands out is their own artistic tradition and analyzing these traditions can lead to really interesting insightful commentary (see Peter Chung drawing a line between things like Bunraku shows and modern Japan being more likely to treat animation as "moving drawings" than "illusion of life" on the Anipages forums back in the day, or a lot of the shit Murakami pointed out). And it doesn't have to be "muh pure Yamato soul" nationalism when China & Korea had similar aesthetic sense & stylization and have a longer history of handling manga/anime aesthetics well compared to, say, America.

>>29621
noone attends government meetings like that without at least some level of support for her, tbh. people have been very much partisan on these things since the olympics, which takashi murakami was even part of

>>29642
I guess it could be a "making the best out of a bad situation" thing, god knows. Maybe I'm coping. I'm likely more "problematic" than 90% posters here but I remember looking up Sanae Takaichi's views (when Takaya Imamura shilled her, essentially going "the LDP will be forever pozzed and Japan will be doomed if she doesn't take over!!!") and thinking "lol, some fringe weirdo, who cares" then going "oh… fuck." when she won.

isn't evangelion filled with gnostic shit

>>28848
i swear every japanese IP that has westernized magic has elements of gnosticism or hermeticism or kabbalahism peppererd throghout because that's more or less their understanding of western mysticism. hellsing, FMA, obviously elden ring, evanjellyon. it's not even why anime of all things, but where else but anime.

also overlord features a character named Jaldabaoth so there

Gnosticism isnt a single religion but a cluster of related groups of ideas if I recall right

>>28839
They in fact made it many times but they hide it so that goym don't see it.

first picrel is certified angkorean classic

Killed 1/4 of his population award (allegedly possibly)

>>27208
>>27210
>comfy khmer rogue iyashikei but its just a group of peasant girls doing farm work the whole time with the occasional bombing in the background
Are they going to be massacring Vietnamese people and killing Communists in the name of fighting "Soviet social-imperialism" and later running casinos and illegal logging and mining operations to fund their insurgency before dropping any pretense of "Communism"?

>>29580
no because that never happened

>illegal logging and mining
>illegal
yeah they were doing an illegal guerrilla (they were the legitimate government actually)

>>29631
You don't even need to shit on Japan for the empire's crimes when it's currently serving a different empire and committing new crimes.

>>29627
>>26419
Oh also, similar to the Ishinomori thing, Tezuka himself opposed regulation of children's media & promoted education + discernment instead (funnily enough this quote is from a LDP publication, but I'm pretty sure he was still immensely friendlier with the JCP at this point & rarely interacted with the LDP https://nou-yunyun.hatenablog.com/entry/2023/03/03/120000)

While that excerpt about horror movies and whatnot is incredibly goofy (still curious where & when it comes from btw), it feels more like a generic & generalized "smh decadent western influence" rant than something that would've resulted in directly targeting local artists for having "decadent content" in their work (especially given their connections with many "decadent" artists). The more hardline radfem stuff meanwhile seems pretty recent.
>>29631
>>29632
The thing is, this is /anime/ and plenty of anime/manga creators historically have in fact been quite repentant. It's easier to go "lol I hope this alien, hivemind culture gets owned" if it's not your country, but in the end it's no different from saying "I hope everyone in the US gets fucked over. Horrible country!" as if anti-imperialists don't exist in America.

>>29634
>it's no different from saying "I hope everyone in the US gets fucked over. Horrible country!"
i mean…

>>26419
>>29634
One more note about >>26419, I wouldn't be remotely surprised if they had writings that labeled American cartoons and comics (which many JCP-supporter creators liked) as "western capitalist decadence" too. Also in the 70s they were anti gay and I doubt people like Riyoko Ikeda agreed with that https://x.com/shiikazuo/status/1218541788719284224; basically suspect it wasn't a "we need to ban all of this" statement as much as mindless reflexive traditionalist ramblings (though I can see how one can lead to the other in the long run).

But it seems to me like a lot of the dumber recent stuff (which they flipflopped about in the past >>24707 but it became a pretty huge focus recently) and the much more common scolding focus came specifically from their interactions with the UN
>>29635
So you'd want to screw over Americans posting here who agree with most of your views? Nah that's dumb.

>>26419

Here's that massive thread (I think): https://x.com/strugglesm7m/status/1823028769046794440

and for the Invidious link:

https://xcancel.com/strugglesm7m/status/1823028769046794440