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Workers of the world, gattai!

>>27196
Bruh, it's a revanchist monarchist apologia. If you unironically believe this then I will punch you. And then punch you again.

Seriously, why do people shill for this anime so much? I don't understand.

I think Simon is incredibly boring generic anime protagonist, a poor replacement for far more interesting and fun character of Kamina.

>>27896
MCs have to be boring so the viewer can self insert

>>27934
That's one of those things I truly don't get, throughout my entirely life I've always preferred watching someone interesting than someone who's "just like me"

>>27936
I'm with you. I wonder if it's an effect of alienation. IMO a person that's not interpersonally crippled should be able to see themselves in others to a greater or lesser degree even if they aren't "just like me fr fr." Like it's one thing when you have a character that acts as an avatar for player actions like Gordon Freeman, but for a character in a show to be a human null to facilitate projection, I just don't get it.

this show is garbage. even for mecha it is pretty bad

>>27936
Individualism is new to the japanese still. Their novels are still full of characters that are considered bad for being different, like having colored hair or makeup. Chinese novels too shits annoying

>>27949
They do have family feud though.
Collectivism can be toxic as well.

Remember, the only difference between North America and Southeast Asia is whether or not people are individualistoc or collectivist. They still have similar hangups on alot of things.

I dropped it after 4 episodes, I found it kind of boring

>>27894
> monarchist

Dafuq? TTGL is peak liberalism, the entire thing is built around the idealist assumption of the inevitability of progress and the bad guys are literally "progress is bad" conservatives. How much more on the nose do they have to be for you?

>>27934
Kamina is more of a self-insert. Simon actually had legitimate human awkwardness and imperfection that makes him poorly suited for the purpose. People generally don't want to self-insert as the awkward teenage boy who has an unrequited crush that he can't cope with.

>>27980
>the idealist assumption of the inevitability of progress

Are we just rejecting dialectics these days? Bro hasn't read the book.

>>28023
Dialectics is idealist.

Wrong, most communist anime is Kill Me Baby

>>27896
Kamina is Lenin so he had to die. Simon is Stalin.

Ashita no Joe
Iykyk

Again Nakashima strikes me as a normie lib who just rolls with whatever people around him say >>25271 and Gurren Lagann's message is very centrist if you have actual legitimate "media literacy"

>>28023
was gonna say the spirals make it kinda obvious

>>27980
They're not fundamentally "bad guys" is the thing and the show hammers you with this point. Progress is inevitable but if you do it mindlessly the world literally implodes on itself. There's a reason Lord Genome of all people was a valuable ally in the final battle, there's a reason Yoshinari's Parallel Works short makes it clear that he used to be the same as the heroes in his youth. Even with the Anti-Spiral it's clear the show was saying he had a point but took it too far. The Anti-Spiral was like Simon's last mentor more or less. One of the major points of the show is that individuality isn't something you're born with but something gained from mixing together outside influences in your own way (like hijacking robots then fusing them into your own personal mech)