/anime/ - Anime

Anime, even as it is more popular and mainstream than ever before in the West, has really lost its relevance. What do I mean? Anime doesn't really inspire people anymore. It's not a statement about its quality, but I mean its real life impact.

In the 70s, 80s and 90s anime was almost a youth movement. In the Philipines, Voltes V was a symbol against the Marcos Regime and was banned because of this. Gundam inspired millions, it caused massive quasi-political rallies of young people who followed the show's idea of a new generation building things better. The police literally had to shut this down. Then by the 2000s there was Haruhi and so on which, if maybe not so political, really did get people out onto the streets and again got the police called on them. Conventions were a serious culture. Even if anime at this point was really inbred, it still brought people out. But nowadays there's no such thing. It's not really that subversive or exciting. Conventions go on but they aren't like what they were (no yaoi paddles). We do still get like loads of children wearing Demon Slayer cosplay but it's not like Yamato. There's this energy that just isn't there anymore.

Perhaps this is because in Japan itself the street movement has died down and become so neutered? It's sort of related to how anime has lost its left wing creators. The people working in the 80s grew up in a really radical time where socialism and anti-imperialism were normal and most people directly interacted with that crowd. Naturally, even if works weren't explicitly socialist, the attitude was reflected. Nowadays that political movement is completely dead. Radicalism is hated in modern Japan. Serious topics are still covered in progressive ways, but something is lost. I don't know, lets take season 2 of GITS SAC where Hideo Kuze is just openly right, the show tells you he is correct. And then in Psycho Pass which is only 10 years later but with a completely different set of people making it who have a different philosophy (the director only really started working in the 2000s), the bad guy just does bad things and is a psychopath, and then the only reasonable option is to uphold the system when given a chance to change it. Maybe the issue here is just GITS is much better written, but I think this can explain a sort of change in anime.

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How come there isn't any Alunya impersonator!?

what anime directors would you like to see adapt capeshit? Hasn't gone well in the past but god damn it eventually someone's gonna make a good one

I will accept "keep capeshit away from my japanese animes" as a valid answer

Do you read/watch battle manga/anime? Which one's your favorite? What about battle seinen?

Also, do you think battle seinen is less cliched or it just has more gore and yuri? Would popular series like Dragon Ball have come out better if it shifted to a seinen magazine? Because in the case of JoJo its writing became more complex once it switched.

My headcanon is that Ozai was sexually abused by his father as a child and never got help, and this is part of the reason he ultimately had became such a monster.

I would say this is believeable both because Fire Nation is a pastiche of Edo Japan and Imperial Japan, first of which is one of the infamous examples of pederasty-tolerant societies, and the second of which is infamous for perhaps commiting more wartime rape over the course of a single war than any other society in history, and because from what little we had seen of him, Fire Lord Azulon seems like the type of person to whom it would be not out of character to molest his younger son.

Now live with this, you all.

This 1st chapter for new manga came out and it has certainly made a impression on western anime fandom. They are claiming it is racist, xenophobic, etc. And honestly, I can see it, with the characters saying some similar language to said people. But someone also brought up as an anti-west or anti-colonialist themes, with them being against the occupation of their planet. Ultimately, its barley 1 chapter out, so I don't want to judge it just on this

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Am I overreacting if I just got irrationally angry when watching Youtube Poop (YTP) when in the middle of the YTP, Stalin appears and sends main characters to do forced labor, and then there is a "dark humour gulag forced labor montage" but the soundtrack used is music from THIS Simpsons couch gag?

Post Disney movie from which, in your opinion, the company's work had truly stopped being even historically progressive and had became a full-time force of reaction.

In my opinion, it''s this movie, for it's actually objectively more racist portrayal of Native Americans than the caricutare orcish barbarians from Peter Pan, which had kickstarted the trend of Disney trying to "represent" non-European peoples in a supposedly progressive, but de-facto very distorted and tokenised way, for liberal brownie points and profit. And also for kickstarting the toxic trend of blaming all of a racism and opression in a given society on a single super mean and evil guy(TM).