/anime/ - Anime

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Comrades, we need better anime literacy on this board. I've made this thread to help direct people to good leftist anime. Listen to me or not, but I have watched a lot of anime so these are my serious recommendations. If you watch these shows you will also be broadening your tastes and escaping from seasonal consumerism. I will specifically recommend leftist/revolutionary anime.

>Belladonna of Sadness
This 1971 film has a lot of sexual content, but it is one of the most beautifully drawn anime of all time and is a great audio-visual experience, with varied styles of art over the film. It includes incredibly experimental and interesting shots. Plot wise it tackles the sexual, religious and feudal heirarchy with great visual storytelling. It flips the idea of sexual corruption as bad, and turns satanist hedonism into a revolutionary force which only positively affects the villagers.
>Gundam
Tomino's Gundam is a masterpiece because of how good the characters are. They are astoundingly well developed and feel real due to characterisation present in almost all episodes. Tomino's style of storytelling is obtuse, and the subext is not narrated out like in most anime, which many people really enjoy which is why the show has such a strong fan base. The themes of the original show are extremely well expressed in the last third, and a number of scenes towards the end are absolutely fantastic. As for the leftist analasys, Gundam is anti-fascist, with a possible Trotskyist degenerated worker's state analasys on the antagonist faction, who were originally a revolutionary anti-earth eco-fascist group until they were taken over by a ruling familly. However, their ideology is not wrong as the Earth Federation opresses the space-underclass as well as destroying the planet. There is a lot to unpack here and the evil principality is well humanised despite being clearly in the wrong, except for Char who did nothing wrong. Tomino is known to have some sexist takes, but this isn't really present until the 90s and before that his anime all have strong women.
>Gurren Lagann
It is the ultimate revolutionary anime. The entire show goes about combating conservatism and reactionism in a highly bombastic way, without making them seem evil. Instead, conservatism is just wrong and impossible to maintain. The show is epic, with very strong pPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

> Bored to death
> Start reading some slop webtoom to kill time
> WTF it's actually good
Mr. Magical Girl
https://comick.io/comic/mr-magical-girl

It's greatest sin so far is that it's initial setup is a bit mid, but once the story gets going, even just at chapter six, it picks up like a goddamn locomotive, and a good one at that.

Please mr boomer magical girl, I await your 41st chapter

In terms of physical strength and speed, saiyans aren’t really that impressive. Just look at any fight in the dragon ball series compared to what you’d get out of any other shonen or even superhero series. Saiyans need to hit each other or anything else a comically high number of times before any meaningful damage becomes visible. Their speed also caps out near or at light speed among the strongest saiyans too.

Kid goku failed to manage to do so little as scratch Yamaha each blow during their first fight. Freiza was straight up one shotting some of goku’s friends and the saiyan race pretty openly. You don’t see saiyans like vegeta or gohan performing feats like destroying entire mountains or planets as often as the viltrumites or kryptonians do in their universes. Finally, it’s known that most of the power the saiyans have don’t even come off their raw strength and speed anyways. They get their power from Ki and wishes while every other alien trains their fundamentals like crazy. The saiyans are anime’s biggest frauds to me. All that talk about power and I rarely see them use any of it.

I'm a bitter asshole who complains about anime cliches, do you know any anime that mockingly subverts anime tropes? I already know about Konosuba and One-Punch Man but I need more suggestions.

Post them

Any fans here?

I read:
An Uncivilized Planet
Tropical Citron
Freesia

years ago.

Loved them all. Be warned of adult themes.

His artstyle is so unique and amazing. I'm reading Joshi Kouhei right now. It's about some Evangelion-ish future where men pilot these giant robots from another dimension that look like Japanese schoolgirls but eventually they get psychotic and think they're actually schoolgirls.

Who wins?

What has caused the harem to almost become the default relationship in anime?

Not a fan. Even with all the crazy shit I can accept in anime, this is generally a level of blatant wish fulfillment nonsense that just fully takes me out of it.

has anybody else played LMR? i feel like im the only english speaker who did, or at least the only one that liked it going off the polarized reviews.

made by the same team as Everlasting Summer, it feels like an early 1900s russian novel in anime form. the protagonist is the quintessential antisocial superfluous man forced to confront his own pathetic shadow after his comfortable life of monotony is stolen from him, replaced by the threat of death at the hands of a political/corporate conspiracy looming over his shoulder 24/7.

my favorite theme of the story was its emphasis on the material conditions of the main characters. as the "Money" in the name implies, the wealth/class positions and divisions between them are constantly stressed. One heroines route delves into full on class warfare in which you kidnap the heiress to a company, another abuses drugs and frequently overdoses to cope with her lack of efficacy, etc.

all in all its a pretty solid story, though its clear they used a ton of russian words/phrases that don't translate properly so at times the dialogue can feel a bit choppy. the worst for me was a certain heroine who, while basically having no relevance/screentime if you dont go down her route, is a focal obsession of the main character regardless and the constant references to her get pretty grating at times. theres also sex if youre into that.
8/10