/anime/ - Anime

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.

Chart about the stereotypes and camps of random animes.
Y axis is perceived popularity with the top having more elitist fans,and the X axis is the moe/manime scale.
What do you think?

With the Moro arc being animated, i would like to ask one thing. Why is Goku such a sex-less retarted aspie in Dragon Ball Super. No way he acted like this in DBZ.

I asked google gemini to categorize anime characters' politics and put them in the political compass

do you think it checks out?

Reminder that hisoka (Blondie to the right of the cross dude) is actually handsome and has insane fashion potential.

I just finished watching Evangelion with my mum and dad (well my dad sat in the room with us but refused to even look at the telly and instead scrolled football forums instead on his laptop). I basically told about every production quirk and lore detail all the time it was really fun. She liked it but didn't think it was that deep, and she said it repeated itself too much towards the end and she liked the beginning more (a very interesting opinion imo). She hated the last two TV episodes and also didn't seem to care about Kaworu that much.

She liked the elevator scene a lot, that was the standout part for her. I think the character she was the most invested in was Asuka (maybe because I am a bit like Asuka). Lastly she liked End of Evangelion but didn't love it that much, she thought it was just repeating what the show said and didn't think it was the most artistic film ever or anything. She liked the mech battle the most.

I think my mum likes fight scenes more than wierd abstract character moments and she doesn't really understand the intricate parts of animation. This is all very interesting to me tbh as someone super into anime since it shows what a normal person thinks of it.

Since anime females are always overrepresented in beauty appreciation, let's do one for the male sex.
Traps and femboys count but I don't them to be the main element of this thread

Pics in OP:
Sasuke Uchiha from "Naruto"
Sakura Haruno (rule 63) from "Naruto"
Sphintus Carmen from "Magi: Labyrinth Of Magic"
Aladdin Jehoahaz Abraham from "Magi: Labyrinth Of Magic"

“Equal in potential to gogo”
“Sukunas rival”
“Threat rivaling sukuna”
Literally on par with how oda writes the majority of his villains. All that hype for like 90% of the threats to be taken out by one off side characters. I haven’t read modulo. I doubt yuji is ever going to approach the raw experience, and endurance sukuna has put out in his story—idk, maybe he approaches sukuna in power? Jjk is a pleasure comic I read when I’m not reading the actually complex stories like hunter x hunter, monster, one piece when it’s being smart, or elite seinen. I don’t believe for even a second that gege isn’t a hack.

Do you think that Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is the most communist anime you’ve ever seen the first half of the show he’s finally against the fascist Lordgenome then father in the intergalactic anti spiral and Kamina taught Simon how to be a true man and stand up for yourself in the right it my opinion yes it is a communist show

I liked it.

Sure the pacing at the first half leaves a lot to be desired, amongst other issues, but it was pure soul. Better than Trust and Betrayal.

I prefer this as the definitive ending for the series.