João Vitor Tomotani¹ & Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador² ¹ Independent Researcher. São Paulo, SP, Brazil. ² Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Wellington, New Zealand. Emails: tjvitor (at) gma…
It's based on a dating game, but the creators resent that imo. They wanted to do cool anime bullshit urban fantasy, but also wanted money, so they made porn games with the worst sex scenes you've ever seen, and ended up making a boatload of money. That's what it looks like to me at least.
There will be always somebody for you to blame. It will make you feel better about yourself (...) But the point is; What different is this to Marvel heroes? To cartoon characters? To youtubers or twitch streamers?
What a lib thing to say, who is being blamed? Furthermore, anime characters are cartoons, so what is your point?
I think the series is based on a dating game or something?
Sort of - Zero is based off of a light novel, but the first story in the Fate universe was an H-Game with famously unsettling prose (at one point, an anus is described as behaving 'like a mollusk').
We are scared shitless of getting close to real, flawed, complex human beings. To fill that void we make up larger than life super heroic caricatures and pretend to engage in para-social relationships with those instead.
Idealism. The problem is not that "people are scared of other people", the problem is that neoliberal capitalist markets have ground down all meaningful forms of human connection (in the "1st world") through its many vagaries such as commodification, competition, and austerity. There is just no time, money, and energy to create numerous close relationships for the vast majority of subjects. Furthermore, who is 'we' here? The brain geniuses responsible for Astolfo's modern incarnation are a corporation with financial incentives to make a femboy knight, it didn't spring from the collective will of the masses.
Blaming the imaginary other for our general sickness is merely a coping mechanism.
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That or people are horny for femboys.
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It's based on a dating game, but the creators resent that imo. They wanted to do cool anime bullshit urban fantasy, but also wanted money, so they made porn games with the worst sex scenes you've ever seen, and ended up making a boatload of money. That's what it looks like to me at least.
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What a lib thing to say, who is being blamed? Furthermore, anime characters are cartoons, so what is your point?
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Sort of - Zero is based off of a light novel, but the first story in the Fate universe was an H-Game with famously unsettling prose (at one point, an anus is described as behaving 'like a mollusk').
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Yeah, the general hypothesis is that Nasu purposefully made the porn upsetting because he didn't really want to be writing it.
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Idealism. The problem is not that "people are scared of other people", the problem is that neoliberal capitalist markets have ground down all meaningful forms of human connection (in the "1st world") through its many vagaries such as commodification, competition, and austerity. There is just no time, money, and energy to create numerous close relationships for the vast majority of subjects. Furthermore, who is 'we' here? The brain geniuses responsible for Astolfo's modern incarnation are a corporation with financial incentives to make a femboy knight, it didn't spring from the collective will of the masses.
:jesse-wtf:
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