Even if one could somehow set aside all the hog feeding in the first episode and thecryptofascist genocide apologia in Goblin Slayer, the "these nobles are bad actually" trope is very tired old :LIB: cliche when it's usually seen, especially when the implied subtext is "if only we had better nobles, ah well. Revolutions are silly and/or hypocritical and/or just as bad as the bad nobles and/or doomed to fail!"
Gambo's setting also is pretty much that. I don't buy the "this is actually leftist because it shows nobles as bad actually" take because the only alternatives or prospects of change are shown as silly or hypocritical or otherwise doomed to fail, and there was a good monarch this one time that the setting and its narrative voice express nostalgia for on top of that. :sus-soviet:
Even if one could somehow set aside all the hog feeding in the first episode and thecryptofascist genocide apologia in Goblin Slayer, the "these nobles are bad actually" trope is very tired old :LIB: cliche when it's usually seen, especially when the implied subtext is "if only we had better nobles, ah well. Revolutions are silly and/or hypocritical and/or just as bad as the bad nobles and/or doomed to fail!"
Gambo's setting also is pretty much that. I don't buy the "this is actually leftist because it shows nobles as bad actually" take because the only alternatives or prospects of change are shown as silly or hypocritical or otherwise doomed to fail, and there was a good monarch this one time that the setting and its narrative voice express nostalgia for on top of that. :sus-soviet: