i'll be honest i don't think any of these series is particularly left or right wing. i think many of them emphasize traditional family values, but also a certain kind of individualist iconoclasm that appeals especially to teenage viewers, and i say that as someone who likes many of them.
i don't think any of these series is particularly left or right wing
Gurren Lagann is literally about the population of the planet having a worker's revolution for the good of all and then realising that their revolution didn't actually fully overthrow the oppressing class so they have a second revolution to fully achieve it. The revolution they have flings them out of poverty and into rapid prosperity in very little time because the resources are being used for everyone.
You're right, but on the other hand, GL's gender politics are pretty bad. Every woman but Yoko (and the little girl who becomes a robocop whose name escapes me) just becomes a housewife post-revolution.
There were a bunch of scientist women around Rossiu and Leeron.
The women that had children I can forgive them going fulltime child care.
Yoko's story is kinda sad, she kinda ends up traumatised and I don't really blame her for wanting to run away, then gets traumatised a second time too. She's the very depiction of completely sacrificing herself for revolution, even a second time knowing full well what it led her to the first.
On the one hand we shouldn't be like libs are with harry potter but on the other hand just because something is made for children doesn't mean the curtains are just blue
Now I may be biased in this case but Gurren Lagann is about as explicitly leftist as a shonen anime can be (my only nitpick from what the tweet said is that the revolution happens at the midpoint of the series, the 2nd half is more about reactionary forces undermining the new government and the necessity of fighting a war for the survival of the new socialist state when surrounded by powerful enemies but I digress)
I'd go as far as saying I think Kamina and Simon are each meant to represent and idealized version of Lenin and Stalin respectively
I always took ttgl as a February revolution and an October revolution.
Or, you could take it as a national revolution followed by a full global revolution. With the national revolution depicted as the planetary revolution and the international revolution depicted as the galactic one.
i'll be honest i don't think any of these series is particularly left or right wing. i think many of them emphasize traditional family values, but also a certain kind of individualist iconoclasm that appeals especially to teenage viewers, and i say that as someone who likes many of them.
Gurren Lagann is literally about the population of the planet having a worker's revolution for the good of all and then realising that their revolution didn't actually fully overthrow the oppressing class so they have a second revolution to fully achieve it. The revolution they have flings them out of poverty and into rapid prosperity in very little time because the resources are being used for everyone.
You're right, but on the other hand, GL's gender politics are pretty bad. Every woman but Yoko (and the little girl who becomes a robocop whose name escapes me) just becomes a housewife post-revolution.
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There were a bunch of scientist women around Rossiu and Leeron.
The women that had children I can forgive them going fulltime child care.
Yoko's story is kinda sad, she kinda ends up traumatised and I don't really blame her for wanting to run away, then gets traumatised a second time too. She's the very depiction of completely sacrificing herself for revolution, even a second time knowing full well what it led her to the first.
and i think it's a bit silly to treat media for children like political theory. unserious is the word en vogue i think.
On the one hand we shouldn't be like libs are with harry potter but on the other hand just because something is made for children doesn't mean the curtains are just blue
Now I may be biased in this case but Gurren Lagann is about as explicitly leftist as a shonen anime can be (my only nitpick from what the tweet said is that the revolution happens at the midpoint of the series, the 2nd half is more about reactionary forces undermining the new government and the necessity of fighting a war for the survival of the new socialist state when surrounded by powerful enemies but I digress)
I'd go as far as saying I think Kamina and Simon are each meant to represent and idealized version of Lenin and Stalin respectively
I always took ttgl as a February revolution and an October revolution.
Or, you could take it as a national revolution followed by a full global revolution. With the national revolution depicted as the planetary revolution and the international revolution depicted as the galactic one.