I know it's not strictly anime but we can choose not to be petty fucks about animation.
Just watched S1 of this and I can't help but see a strong allegory. Hell is literally a prison for undesirables that heaven regularly comes down into for the purposes of doing various genocidal exterminations. The population of Hell are unable to fight back. Then a major upset event occurs that makes everyone realise that heaven can bleed.
I can't help but think all the way through this show that Hell desperately needs a liberation army to break out of their imprisonment.
Anyone seen it? Thoughts? First couple of eps felt a bit ehh but it finds its stride when it starts leaning in on being a musical and some of the characters are genuinely really fucking good, looking at you Alastor with your incredible radio voice.
Anyway if you haven't watched it I kinda recommend it and not to be put off by the first couple eps feeling overly edgy/cringe. It finds a good rhythm after them.
"There have been left wing media that critiques specific aspects of capitalism. But regardless of intent, the capitalists have monetized anti capitalism. Something something we let the anti capitalist movies do anti capitalism for us so we an consume in peace!"
Oh, this is also true, but I still stand by what I originally said.
And as for Breaking Bad, it's obviously not that deep, I would argue, and it doesn't take on capitalism directly.
Yes, the cancer was a catalyst and the lack of medical care, but I don't think that it quite makes capitalism center stage or even really critiques it without being needlessly vague.
At best, it's more about a person lying to himself about how he's doing it "all for his family." That's it.