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>not a single frieren thread could be found
Someone just has to do it, right?
69 posts and 5 image replies omitted.>>27000>I think you don't understand you're trying to justify straight up dehumanization here. Dehumanization is only a problem if the demons are meant to represent humans. What I'm saying is that we shouldn't assume that.
>which would still be eerily close to something like the Goblin Slayer settingFunny you should mention that because I've also heard leftist readings of Goblin Slayer where the goblins are a stand in for all the daily, relatively minor shit that quietly eats away at people and makes their lives hell. The elitist protagonists are all worried about big bads like a Demon King when the relatively unimpressive goblins are objectively a bigger threat to most people. Sort of how libs will tell us that Putin is the worst thing in the world as we struggle to pay rent and afford groceries. Again this is a way that you can take a left wing reading of something like the demons in Frieren, not as an allegory for race but for monstrous and inhuman social forces.
>>27003>If you wanted to portray demons as monstrous, why not make them look the part Because monstrous things can often be pretty to look at. Don't you want the pretty commodity prole? Look how cool and nice it is, it will make you happy and everybody will love you if you buy it. Aren't billionaires cool and awesome? They're going to space and drive fancy cars and fuck supermodels. etc.
Also I'd add that in actual explicit racist propaganda the targeted group is usually portrayed as being horrible to look at and disgusting in every way. No Nazi has ever portrayed Jews or Blacks as charming attractive people who will trick you with their beautiful looks.
>>27005>in actual explicit racist propaganda the targeted group is usually portrayed as being horrible to look atThe thing is this portrayal creates a greater distance making dehumanization easier. Not doing it just makes it all the more uncomfortable, because demons have a racial component while still looking almost exactly human (almost like those targeted groups in real life).
>Because monstrous things can often be pretty to look at.I maintain writing fiction about extensively about such a scenario is misanthropic in itself.
>>27144She has friendships with them but not romantic relationships. A plot point that comes up later is that one of her previous friends who has long since died was in love with her and she was oblivious to it (because of elf autism).
>>27140It's comfy in a way that reminds me of Ghibli.
>>27190Germans who happened to be Nazis had fairly common German names? Shocker. This must be bait but I will continue. There isnt even well known Nazis by names like Himmel, Heiter, Fern, only one I can find is a few with the family name Stark. Many names for characters are just German words that aren't names. Their names are given for their character attributes.
Frieren = to be cold
Himmel = heaven
Heiter = cheerful
Eisen = iron
Fern = distant
Stark = strong
Sein = Be (I suppose this just means his way of living and attitude?)
Kraut = power
I can keep going through every character but the same obvious intention appears for nearly every character name it seems which indicates no intention than the meaning of names and words in German.
>>27550Even outside how the whole moral/ethical angle of it, shit just sucks.
Frieren worked best when it functions as episodic vignettes. Every single attempt at doing longer storylines, including the current arcs, has been complete fucking flubs.
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