seriously my friends tell me to watch a bunch of shows and so fuckin many of them are obnoxiously pervy right out the gate :stalin-stressed:
seriously my friends tell me to watch a bunch of shows and so fuckin many of them are obnoxiously pervy right out the gate :stalin-stressed:
That's rare nowadays and actually very uncommon pre... 2010 really.
A show like GATE or Attack on Titan (in light with its unambiguously far-right ending) would stay niche like the openly fascistic Angel Cop (lmao this OVA's plot has jews be the villains who try to destroy Japan by aiding communists) or outright face huge difficulties getting made back in the 80s or earlier.
The 1982 movie Future War 198X, with a nuclear war plot written originally in a novel by an Australian Army General faced a boycott in production by Toei's unions for being too anti-soviet
Honestly just mentioned that due to knowing about GATE and how unambiguously chuddy it is towards the Japanese military. Also God damned Angel Cop sounds like a fuckin' trip... then again you also got the Saga of Tanya the Evil (legit alternative magical world Nazis that also has an episode with the main character killing fantasy inserted Romani coded people alongside a bunch of refugees).
Can you explain this one to me? I know I get fash vibes from AoT based on the extremely little I've read, but I'd like to be able to explain it to other people without going down an hours-long wiki hole on a topic I hate.
Various Spoilers
It turns out at the end of Season 3 that the monsters they fought for three seasons were actually exiled members of (minority - same as the main character ethnic group) in a place outside of the previous main setting, which had a curse that could turn them into giant mindless carnivorous monsters and were dumped on the island on purpose. Plot happens and they come into contact with the civilizations that did this, and they're hostile. Tensions escalate and Eren, the main character, decides to use a secret weapon and start the "Rumbling", which is basically mass genocide of everyone who does not live on the island with them. The other main characters try to and eventually do stop him, but enough damage has been done. In the epilogue the society is a militaristic absolute monarchy prepared for forever war against invaders and the main characters bizarrely thank Eren for having done the genocide for them, even if it was incomplete.
Not only is it shitty out of character writing for the last dozen or so chapters, but the finale is just wtf
Going out on a limb here, I'm going to guess that some people would put an extra two pairs of parentheses around that?
I don't think it was intentional in this case tbh, but still undoubtedly fascistic.
I decided to look into it a little bit, and, uh... yikes.