Llituro comments on [CW: Racism] I was a much happier person before I'd heard of Frieren

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago (5 children)

There is also One Piece, which has its own problematic elements, but doing blood libels isn't part of them. Pretty anti imperialist overall. Situation again of a guy that thinks communists are really cool though.

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[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

Still has the extreme levels of fan service and skinny young girls in no clothes, but yeah much less of the overtly fascistic undertones in things like Attack on Titan, almost all Isekais, Death Note, etc.

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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

Yerp, definitely not lacking in some of the annoying problematic shit. But at least it's demonstrably pro liberation and pro queer revolutionary army. Attack On Titan is my go to example of an explicitly fascist anime.

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[–] Arahnya@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

i was gonna bring up one piece and say the Skypeia arc was one of my favorites, but they did the fucking thing where they were like "we know the colonizers suck, but try to work with them to achieve peace!" and I guess they do but still. smh

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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I'd say that's one of the occasions where the message absolutely gets flubbed by an idealist ending. At the very least, the colonizers also have to change their ways, but it's still flubbed.

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[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The author has a picture of che on his desk and made a Cuban army in the work that seem to be the good guys fighting the bourgeois while the hero has anarchist adventures

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