/anime/ - Anime

>>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)

>>29473
such, but sincerely

>>29473
You like the smell of your own farts, don't you?

One Piece is the most overrated garbage ever
Fuck Oda

>>29411
It is for children. Even worse, Japanese children.

>>29473
>Basically if the CIA *didn’t* respect One Piece, it would be less effective at its job.
the CIA uses one piece in the most boomer "hello fellow kids" way possible you fucking retard, and it's already being phased out because it proved to be useless in mexico. last time they tried to rally a protest with the meme jolly roger, they only managed to gather 300 persons TOTAL.

>>29506
I mean yes that was the message, but you don't have to agree with a story's message, especially if the story is stupid (and Death Note is quite stupid)

>>29465
My friend and I once argued about the death note. I told him I'd do what light'd have done if I got the death note. He told me my type of thinking was "evil". I see his point, but some people, especially politicians have caused more harm to ordinary people than most could imagine. People like them shouldn't be on the top.

>>29597
Light was quite petty with the Death Note and did more than just kill obviously evil powerful people.

>>29597
>I told him I'd do what light'd have done if I got the death note.
i mean it depends what do you mean by that, but killing people who you know have been arrested is probably the stupidest way you could use the death note, anyone else would have put it to better use

>>29489
Depending on how fast you can write, you could probably get rid of most of the worst offenders in under an hour.

>>27365
Spy family rom comming secret police wasn't on my bingo card

weird how liberals have no problem noticing and critiquing militarism when it comes with armies shooting each other, but spying and sabotage are somehow non-ideological even though there were millions of people killed by capitalism during the Cold War

watching the latest season and another Karl Marx drop

>>27390
How is My Number Card right wing? It is just like an identification card meant to make it easier rather than using a large number of other cards and while encouraged to it is not the only option people in Japan have. I watched something about it on NHK World before.

>>29561
It's about an amendment to my number cards, which put all your medical records on it. No one trusts the LDP to keep your medical details safe. It's also right-wing cause it was a very partisan bill and only supported by right-wing parties, no lefty touched this shit bill.

https://x.com/gaku_ito/status/1660908596429983744

I find it interesting that there are Ganguro guys

MIsato Gyaru by an AI (sorry couldn't find a watermarkless version)

I have this Konata gyaru gif

>>29081
Cute

oooooo im gonna nuttt

>>29545
If it helps, nen wasn’t meant to be central to combat in the first place. Hunter x hunter isn’t written to be a world where things that would make magic less convenient including guns, ambushing tactics, stealth, poisoning, disguises, obviously underhanded tricks, otherworld bladed and long ranged weapons, massive military vehicles, and more just don’t exist for narrative convenience—like a certain genre of anime that revolve around people getting transported to various fantasy worlds. Rather nen was meant to be an addition to the world to make it more rich in lore and the story in general less predictable so every fight wouldn’t devolve into a firepower/numbers contest.

>>29547
It's also really weird how nen is both something seemingly anyone can do and potentially insanely powerful, like imbuing something with the properties of both rubber AND gum, but it isn't common knowledge. Especially since it's not even kept a secret at all. You've got shit like the battle tower or greed island where to even begin to compete you've got to have a command of nen, but when Gon and friends are starting out it's treated like this obscure, mysterious thing. And like, that's crazy. Everyone should know about nen. Kids should be taught about nen in schools. There should be national programs to identify and train talented nen users because it's basically a doorway to incredible magic powers any one of which has the power to totally destabilize society, like that guy that can turn people into remote bombs just by touching them. Nen knowledge and nen users have to be integrated into all parts of society from the leadership on down because otherwise you've got superhumans running around with reality bending powers like the ability to harness the powers of both rubber AND gum and no real way to stop them. I guess it's just a lucky break that everyone with nen is also stricken with an intense, overpowering autism and they're too caught up in their hyperfixations to take over the world.

>>29548
Not necessarily. Gon and killua were and still are very young and nen is common knowledge in the world of 40k. Remember, the reader was introduced to nen from the perspective of gon and killua but we saw the use of it as early as the hunter exams very explicitly. That’s why nen felt mysterious.

But why isn’t it more common? Well it is among most hunters (pretty much all in fact) and many elite militias/mercenary units in this universe too so much that even nameless/one off fodder characters have shown to have access to it like in the chimera ant and greed island arcs. Besides that, nen requires a lot of training that most people in this world won’t commit too, similar to how effective real martial arts are and continue to be for real combat scenarios despite most people not being committed or mentally apt to train and register learning to fight as something important to their lives.

>>29549
I said 40k when I meant to say hunter x hunter sorry

>>29548
>You've got shit like the battle tower or greed island where to even begin to compete you've got to have a command of nen
Only at the higher levels. Killua and Gon pushed through the lower stages with ease and they were without Nen.
>Everyone should know about nen.
Who has the time to learn Nen? Hunters can gatekeep it because they basically can do whatever they want with their time without worrying about money too much and even then it takes years for most people to even open their aura nodes unless you open it forcefully. I think its safe to say that Togashi changed the trajectory of Nen from being that power that very few even know exists to something that is likely to exist but very few have the time and ressources to confirm it, so its treated as sort of a myth. Not the first time that proles grt to miss out on knowledge, physical enhancement etc. In that sense Nen is more of a metaphor while simultanously being a power system.
>There should be national programs to identify and train talented nen users because it's basically a doorway to incredible magic powers any one of which has the power to totally destabilize society, like that guy that can turn people into remote bombs just by touching them.
Can't do man. The dirty peasants of the hunter world are not allowed to have these means at their disposal. Do you think the catholic church whould have financed a continent wide program to teach every peasant in europe how read latin?
>Nen knowledge and nen users have to be integrated into all parts of society from the leadership on down because otherwise you've got superhumans running around with reality bending powers like the ability to harness the powers of both rubber AND gum and no real way to stop them.
Hunter has its own communist revolutionary figure (not really but she is a sleeper commie imo) in Morena who via her own nen power, makes others awaken their nen by helping her in her ambtion to destroy kakin and playing her "game". The bourgeoisie and aristocracy gatekeep it so they face less overwhelming resistance. Hunters are literally described to male 60% of the top 100 richest people.
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>>29484
Being a pervert and being a feminist actually goes hand in hand. You cant fight against patriarchy while enforcing bourgeois sexual morality.

>>29496
that's hardly surprising since there's a thousand ideologies that call themselves "feminism" and most probably don't recognize the bourgeoisie as an enemy.

>>29498
Feminism is the prodigal daughter of patriarchy

Never forget that

What do you guys think of the references to Hitler and the Nazis in the beginning of the anime are about? Cause at first you assume its referencing Honnouji acadmedy and Satsuki but with the twist she is actually the good guy. Its supposed to critique her or her mother.

>>29484
Eh Sushio's probably an odd one out in actually supporting a hardcore racist politician; it's more that I've never seen any evidence of Nakashima being socialist. He seemed like a VERY garden variety lib when I went through his political tweets/retweets promoting stuff someone more radical never would - like a positive review of JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy from a fairly prominent Japanese liberal, basically liking him for being a NeverTrumper but the review was far more forgiving of Obama and Bush at the end. Note the "bootstraps" shit during that same line https://youshofanclub.com/2016/10/31/hillbilly-elegy/ (also this writer took selfies with Hillary lol). If he's changed since then and became more leftist, it wouldn't be very relevant to the discussion since I read this stuff post-KLK. He was normie lib enough to go "hmm very good article" at this in 2016.

If you properly analyze Gurren Lagann this is not very surprising because if you apply its core theme & message ("past and present coming together to create a path towards the future", which often led to "conservative old timers and rebellious youth should work together") to partisan politics you could very easily call it an extremely centrist show. However I think part of why GL is good is because that theme can apply to so many things, not even just politics. Like art or the history of anime & manga.
>>29513
That's cuz

1. Nakashima was making up shit as he went along. He literally said his intent was to "develop the themes as the series went along" as opposed to start with a core theme & focus around it like Gurren Lagann. AND

2. KLK is very very clearly inspired by Kakugo no Susume which was more explicitly about fighting fascism, not in a wider "CEOs are fascist" sense but literally "the final boss is the protag's WW2 war criminal grandpa who ran this thing we won't call, Unit 731 but it totally is Unit 731". It's also inspired by Otokogumi which was written by a hardcore "kill the emperor" guy. But since he didn't pick a theme to focus on and he likely ended up wanting to make a wider statement about individuality (likely because, as I said, I wouldn't say he's rePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>24661
Man, the dismemberment fetish is just weird to me. It's not guro necessarily but still. I don't get it.

>>24661
>The Nomu alone have a lot to 'play' with
Ehehe they sure do.

Final season currently ongoing, and nobody seems to talk about it. I guess knowing how it all ends crashed all the hype remaining.

>>24726
It's a more extreme version of bandage, making explicit the implicit disability of restraints.

>Tomura isnt result of abusive family, uncaring society and random destructive mutation, but All For One's manipulation
>Endevour/Dabi storyline about abusive father who drives his son to insanity getting retconned, and All For One is involved, because of course
>All For One's origin is being literally born evil and all evil in the world seemingly comes from him like he is the Devil, neutering any societal critique the manga had
>Himiko's completely unprompted redemption
I applaud Hirokoshi's talent to retroactively ruin even the good parts of BNHA writing.