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I've watched this anime for the first time yesterday night, and holy shit.

I expected to cry during the movie, and I did, but what I didn't expect was how much hatred I would feel for humans after I did. Especially after reading the opinions of people about it.

Now if you haven't watched it, the rest of this post, or rather rant, will be spoilers, but I won't use the spoiler tags for readability.
Forget this anime even exists, you will just become an emotional mess like me or out yourself as a fascist after seeing it. It's not worth it.

———

Alright.
I fucking hate the aunt. That's the one thing I didn't expect.
She is an heartless bastard. She sees kids who lost their mom, their home, their dad is on the front line, she brings them into her home, and immediately starts verbally abusing them.
She forces them to sell the kimono of their mom, take half of the rice they got from it, and she still doesn't have one ounce of empathy, and start bitching again.
When they leave, she basically says "okay" and seems relieved by it.
I couldn't help but shout "KILL THAT BITCH" to the protagonist every time I saw her face. I hope I would see her house getting burned down by American bombs, I only wanted to see this.

I went to sleep after watching it, and as soon as I woke up, I looked for the opinions of other people, mainly on reddit and the /a/ archive on desuarchive, and I was appalled by most of them.
Most people blame the boy for wanting to make his little sister happy. "He should have gotten a job and stayed with the aunt, it's wartime" they say. Absolutely heartless bastards.
If he would have stayed with the aunt, he would have inevitably strangled her in her sleep. It's wartime. People can take abuse for so long, until they snap.

It's crazy how people can see such an emotional story, where obviously the bad guys are the Japanese imperialist government who started the war in the first place, in the background, and this bunch of civilian kids have to deal with it, seeing everything getting destroyed around them, and still think "he deserved it".
It's like people desire to be abused. Would you stay with the aunt, be realistic, "shallow your pride" as they say, and get a job so she can stop verbally abusing you? The truth is people like the aunt are never satisfied, never. You will move heaven and earth, turn over every stone for them, and they will still treat you like shit. People who don't get this never had to deal with "respectable" but unpleasant family members or bosses.

I don't think (later-stage) communism is possible with people like this around. They deserve the bombs and the wars, they need to be drafted.
They will pretend to care for one second, then tell you to go defend "the nation", "freedom", "democracy", if not outright "the emperor", while they stay behind the front-line, at home, abusing the people around them.
That's why I find the ideology of Newgene dangerous, all this talk about kids maturing fast and having to work, but that's another story for another time.

The only solace I have found in this is that the aunt is 3rd most hated character in anime according to a poll conducted with Japanese otakus: https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2012/5/10/poll-japanese-fans-name-animes-most-unforgivable-characters
It seems that it's mostly Westerners and especially Americans who believe in the just-world fallacy in this case. But the game was rigged from the start.

I've heard children laughing and having fun in the streets this morning, and I wanted to cry. This anime fucked me up.
Someone on /a/ recommended to watch 5 Centimeters per Second immediately after it, it's apparently about love, love despite distance, and I badly need something like this today.

If you made it this far, thank you for your patience, and I'm curious about your opinion as well. Cheers.

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>I looked for the opinions of other people, mainly on reddit and the /a/ archive on desuarchive
Well there's your problem, OP.

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>anime has unlikeable character to milk emotion from viewer
>causes this thread to be made

>>28075
I was duped and fell for the bait, they did a really great job at it, especially considering they had a tight deadline. I do agree this anime is emotionally manipulative, but so are most good pieces of art.

I still don't understand why so many people trying to be smarter-than-you are saying the boy deserved it. It is honestly scary.
Sometimes sad stuff happen. Some people have to face a string of bad situations that never ends, despite their best efforts. Sometimes you eat shit for lunch, and you eat more shit for dinner. Life is unfair.
But it seems some people believe misery is always the fault of the recipient. It can be the case, but not always.
Again, I'm scared to walk around such people in daily life, now that I realize once more they think that way. That's why I'm inclined to think they deserve the bombs today. Let's see how they will fare once they are in the same situation as Seita.

The boy is wartime Japan. He refuses to surrender to work due to his pride and kills his little sister by that. You are like that ogre in the meme.

>>28077
>due to his pride
Again, the aunt was an absolute bitch. Even if he swallowed his pride and got a job, the aunt would still have been abusive to him and his little sister.
It's like you people never experienced psychological abuse, seriously, like you have been sheltered and don't know what kind of hell you can experience when you are under the dominion of an abusive person. I'm projecting for sure, but I don't get this way of thinking.
You are exactly the kind of person I'm talking about, and it's like you weirdos are two steps away from saying "the children in Gaza deserve it". Maybe it will change your perspective if I start to talk about Gaza instead of Japan, because this shit is happening right now, every day, and if it's not in Gaza, it's in Yemen, etc. You people are scary.
Yes, Seita couldn't possibly live by himself without the help of grown-ups, I get that part of the message, but the grown-ups already ruined his life and the life of his sister before he had any say on the matter. Why blame him for the mess others have created? Why? We don't live in a just-world.

>>28077
This analogy would work if the boy declared war on anyone, i.e. intentionally antagonized people around him, but he didn't, he just had to endure hardships caused by the war. It's an interesting perspective, but it's also the just-world fallacy all over again.

>>28078
I did not say anything about anyone deserving anything. I don't think they deserved to die, and I don't think the movie presents it in such a way. It's not about kids surviving without adults either. The aunt is a bitch but she tries to help them. It's been a while since I saw it but my recollection is that even after they ran away she tried to get them back, probably when he was selling her the stolen kimonos? Yes she resented them for their military privileges, but she's not hated by otaku for that, but because she plays the role of the voice of the reason in the movie, in contrast to the boy, who is the personification of Japanese wartime delusions. It's not about kids surviving without adults, it's about the Japanese being unable to accept the reality of war during the final months of the Second World War. That's why the scene with the firebombing, where he cheers for the enemies is so strong.

>>28076
>But it seems some people believe misery is always the fault of the recipient. It can be the case, but not always.
Again, I'm scared to walk around such people in daily life, now that I realize once more they think that way. That's why I'm inclined to think they deserve the bombs today. Let's see how they will fare once they are in the same situation as Seita.

What's more fucked up is that suffering is seen as a test if virtue within itself


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