This anime has lots of good themes -discrimination -borders -religion -race purity nonetheless i think how they treat the concentration of different ethinities leads to mayhem sound iffy as fuck, maybe i have not understand it good enought,opinions?
This anime has lots of good themes -discrimination -borders -religion -race purity nonetheless i think how they treat the concentration of different ethinities leads to mayhem sound iffy as fuck, maybe i have not understand it good enought,opinions?
but i wouldnt say they are filler episodes,they expand on how the cities functions,example
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:::the beisbol match on how the poor live,the bird guy talk about how immigrations affect them,the delfin girl on how they treated animahumans as toys to play with and how the deshumanice them
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You don't need an episode of baseball matches to show how the poor live. More so than showing how the poor live, it presented them (a very small group) as even much dumber than the main character.
feel free to correct me but i dont see a problem on the characters being "dumb" i think they are represented like that because they were of a lower age and they feel like it could make them cute in addition with their good heart, maybe because in the baseball matches they get hurt regularly could be another explication,but really i dont know
Yes, that was probably the reason they were portrayed that way, but it didn't help at giving some insight into the slums, how people live there, how many are affected by it (the city is generally empty throughout the whole show), why there is so much poverty or even what their views on the city and the system are. We know that there are slums, but they are never explained beyond that they simply exist.