See, I don't think it is an ethnic cleansing allegory. It is like something between a parasite and an invasive species. Like, mosquitos or xemomorphs. So that it represents a real biological threat that people of the global South face. Stuff that could be handled better if governments cared to fix problems. I get that japan is fash so that is how they would represent others. I just feel like this author was trying to do something diffrent with the base parts they were given. It isn't entirely successful I get that. It is however less rasicst and more against sexual violence than any random marvel move and I think that is interesting. I dunno, I feel like the fact that it depicts violence as bad and traumatizing and spends several story arcs going with the characters emotional arcs with ptsd is something that would have been cool if the industry ran with that. Plus in this one thr real enemy are the bourgeois factions and the protagonists greatest strength is community organizing. So like. It had so many interesting things it did that got overlooked because of the things it arguably did no worse than any other anime of the time.
.See, I don't think it is an ethnic cleansing allegory.
I didn't say it was an ethnic cleansing allegory, I said it was an ethnic cleansing fantasy. I'm not saying that the shitbag mangaka was hoping the reader would take away from the manga "I think we should do this to Koreans," I'm saying their desire was for the reader to be immersed in a fictional setting where the ethnic cleansing of this particular intelligent, humanoid species that is able to reproduce with human women is not only justified but righteous. How does that relate to the real world? I don't think the mangaka cares. You and I aren't the mangaka, and we have the ability to critically assess things, like what exactly is being appealed to by depicting organisms that are ontologically evil SV machines that force human women to give birth to more of their kind.
I just feel like this author was trying to do something diffrent with the base parts they were given.
"Given"? I'm sorry, were they an artist who inherited a manga-in-progress from an author who quit? No, they fucking chose it. They could have chosen anything and they chose what I just described above.
It isn't entirely successful I get that.
This is a bad joke. They weren't just making mistakes to depict this shit in an eroticized way, they made deliberate compositional choice after deliberate compositional choice (and then repeated it but three times worse in Year One's first chapter just to make sure you know it wasn't somehow a catastrophic accident). If you want to depict SV as something horrible . . . first of all, really consider not depicting the act itself, it's gonna be gratuitous, but secondly don't depict it like that.
It is however less rasicst and more against sexual violence than any random marvel move
I'm sure you find it compelling to say that it deals with issues better than something that doesn't deal with them at all, but that would be a lame argument even if it was true and it's not even true! It makes deliberate compositional choices to make sure that isn't the case.
I dunno, I feel like the fact that it depicts violence as bad
Sure as hell doesn't depict violence against intelligent humanoids of each species as being bad. Oh! Sorry! You meant sexual violence. It depicts it as being bad in maybe the same way a racist views BBC as being bad, i.e. still something to get off on.
things it arguably did no worse than any other anime of the time.
The first issue of the manga was in 2016! What fucking renaissance has happened since then that let's us go "let's not judge the past by the standards of the present"?! Furthermore, most other manga were not depicting eroticized r*** and a great deal weren't doing ethnic cleansing fantasies.
I think maybe I don't understand your point. I am not particularly intrested in going over the part of the discourse that is never going to be settled. I think the text has intresting readings that never made it to the discourse and those are better than what we see from the industry today.
It specifically isn't glorifying violence. Everyone finds it abhorrent all the time. They even specifically call out the fact that if the government tried to help the people all this could be avoided.
See, I don't think it is an ethnic cleansing allegory. It is like something between a parasite and an invasive species. Like, mosquitos or xemomorphs. So that it represents a real biological threat that people of the global South face. Stuff that could be handled better if governments cared to fix problems. I get that japan is fash so that is how they would represent others. I just feel like this author was trying to do something diffrent with the base parts they were given. It isn't entirely successful I get that. It is however less rasicst and more against sexual violence than any random marvel move and I think that is interesting. I dunno, I feel like the fact that it depicts violence as bad and traumatizing and spends several story arcs going with the characters emotional arcs with ptsd is something that would have been cool if the industry ran with that. Plus in this one thr real enemy are the bourgeois factions and the protagonists greatest strength is community organizing. So like. It had so many interesting things it did that got overlooked because of the things it arguably did no worse than any other anime of the time.
I didn't say it was an ethnic cleansing allegory, I said it was an ethnic cleansing fantasy. I'm not saying that the shitbag mangaka was hoping the reader would take away from the manga "I think we should do this to Koreans," I'm saying their desire was for the reader to be immersed in a fictional setting where the ethnic cleansing of this particular intelligent, humanoid species that is able to reproduce with human women is not only justified but righteous. How does that relate to the real world? I don't think the mangaka cares. You and I aren't the mangaka, and we have the ability to critically assess things, like what exactly is being appealed to by depicting organisms that are ontologically evil SV machines that force human women to give birth to more of their kind.
"Given"? I'm sorry, were they an artist who inherited a manga-in-progress from an author who quit? No, they fucking chose it. They could have chosen anything and they chose what I just described above.
This is a bad joke. They weren't just making mistakes to depict this shit in an eroticized way, they made deliberate compositional choice after deliberate compositional choice (and then repeated it but three times worse in Year One's first chapter just to make sure you know it wasn't somehow a catastrophic accident). If you want to depict SV as something horrible . . . first of all, really consider not depicting the act itself, it's gonna be gratuitous, but secondly don't depict it like that.
I'm sure you find it compelling to say that it deals with issues better than something that doesn't deal with them at all, but that would be a lame argument even if it was true and it's not even true! It makes deliberate compositional choices to make sure that isn't the case.
Sure as hell doesn't depict violence against intelligent humanoids of each species as being bad. Oh! Sorry! You meant sexual violence. It depicts it as being bad in maybe the same way a racist views BBC as being bad, i.e. still something to get off on.
The first issue of the manga was in 2016! What fucking renaissance has happened since then that let's us go "let's not judge the past by the standards of the present"?! Furthermore, most other manga were not depicting eroticized r*** and a great deal weren't doing ethnic cleansing fantasies.
I think maybe I don't understand your point. I am not particularly intrested in going over the part of the discourse that is never going to be settled. I think the text has intresting readings that never made it to the discourse and those are better than what we see from the industry today.
It specifically isn't glorifying violence. Everyone finds it abhorrent all the time. They even specifically call out the fact that if the government tried to help the people all this could be avoided.