Unlisted video because I don't know why? It wasn't before. But this is by far one of the best critique videos of the show on the internet and very much worth your time.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    It's a garbage excuse so creepy writers can have titillatingly presented sexual violence and a plot contrived justification for retributive genocide.

    • TheDialectic [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Hentai is an option. We can compare what that looks like. To me this just does seem to be edgelord stuff they didn't pull off well. If it was ment to be fan service they could have just gone with it like in any other anime. No one would complain and the sales would be better. This is anime we are talking about here. The bar is very low but it is still intresting to see an attempt to clear it even if they don't stick the landing.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The hentai-baiting beginning is bad but it isn't quite a bad as the "and this is why infinite unlimited genocide is cool, good, and funny" propaganda messaging afterward for the rest of the show's run.

        • TheDialectic [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          In that it is no worse than any regular Tolkien or DnD media. Or even like cape shit. I dunno. Maybe I was being overly generous but I felt like everyone wanted a better solution and it was just one guy being an exterminator. I know Japan has that weird kinda class conscious streak but I really picked up on that element here. Like, if instead of goblins they were zombies I think the show wouldn't change.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            In that it is no worse

            Believe that all you want, but I call bullshit. False equivalencies are exhaustively common for people trying to justify whatever entertainment they consume and I know it's impossible to convincingly talk you out of yours so I won't even try.

            • TheDialectic [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              People often talk about weird race essentialism in fantasy media. Orcs, gnolls, trolls, pick an evil fantasy race. There is a book or show where the goody two shoes heros kill countless of them. In this that we have a protagonist who is clearly suffering with PTSD and a broken man this seems more honest about it. I am not saying they do it well. It just really seems to me like they tried and it is fascinating as a bit of media history there

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                I already said I'm not interested in your sophistic excuses for why you enjoy a titillating sexual violence extravaganza with nationalist-genocide apologia.