/anime/ - Anime

I'm not trying to start anything or get into any kid of idpol argument.

I'm just wondering why so many anime, many of which never receives a release outside of Japan, and takes place in Japan, is filled with characters who are obviously not Japanese.

Picrel, with a redhaired green-eyed character and a blue-eyed blonde, in the anime, both are native Japanese. They also have big noses like Caucasians.

What's going on here?

You did it. You beat me.
You really are the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

Anyone else is disturbed much when burger media (well, or Jap media) vindicates purported good guys commiting war crimes/crimes against humanity? For me personally the first thing that cames to memory is the infamous scene where Optimus Prime executes Sentinel Prime with a shotgun as wounded and defenseless Sentinel screams for mercy, accompanied by heroic music and followed by "le epic badass" shot of Optimus standing.

Now, in theory Sentienel surely deserved that by virtue of being a traitor, a backstabbing murderer, a Transformer supremacist imperialist who planned to genocide humanity and massacred human civillians, someone who is himself okay with slaughtering begging for mercy POWs, and an absolutely horrible father figure to boot, but, like…

At that moment, Autobots had already won, and there were no urgent need for violence. And Optimus did not gave Sentinel even WW2-USSR style военно-полевой суд trial! Like… aren't good guys good because they do NOT unlawfully murder in cold blood?

But the actual worst thing is the real-world implications of that. Bayformers were literally made as an USAmerican army propaganda movies, and continue to blast USAmerican vision of the world to people watching them to this day.

I cannot shake off the feeling that is not statistically improbable that this very scene had directly inspired at least one case of NATO invaders killing surrendering Lybian troops, or Ukronazis killing surrendering Russian/Eastern Ukrainian troops.

Or am I being an idealist again and freaking out about superstructure when I need to freak out about the basis?

This movie:
>literally promotes a divine right of kings
>justifies literal predation of the lower classes by the higher ones
>its narrative in relation to Hyenas is both racist and near-perfectly aligns with a fascist vision of the world
>becames a worldwide sensation, cult classic, most sucessful animated movie in the world for two decades, is uncritically consumed by millions of people, including some queer prople and left-leaing liberals, while substantionally less reactionary Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter face increasing scrunity even from centrists.

Amazing what the power of the furry does, isn't it?

are any of you powerscalers by any chance?

which protagonist from which anime can beat goku?

i always wanted to make a /co/ thread for leftist discussion, but i have no idea where to put it? most people would shove it off as "cape-shit" or "not Japanese" how ever i think that's the problem, viewing manga as separate from other comics. I consider myself a comics fan but love alot of manga too. and would really enjoy if people didn't segregate just because it's right to left. and if you really don't want a /co/ thread then were go?

I didnt want to ask this for 20 years because its stupid question. But what culture is Popo's look supposed to be inspired by?

My personal idiotic yet hilarious headcanon is that Redwall and Squirrel and Hedgehog happen in the same world, just at different points in history - one at dawn of feudalism, other in the late days of the imperialist order. It actually makes an absurd amount of sense if you think about it lol. Hope if DPRK ever makes a remake, they add in a character from Flower Hill off-pawly mentioning Cluny the Scourge as the legendary person from distant past, or something like this.

i never read a manga in all my life i have no idea what bersek or vinland is about, when i want to start reading any my attention span goes off because my monkey brain is more into moving images but at the same time i get bored after the 5 first episodes. damn you brain

What do you think about the Obsolete anime? It's really cool and well realized, it explores how these alien mechs would actually be used in different circumstances. I really liked the anti-imperialists, they were so cool and I like their mech designs. I just wish that they were the main characters, they have so much more going on with their idea of the mechs being able to topple the west and level the playing field, rather than boring Amerikkkan area 51 marines which the show obviously focuses on.