Change my mind

  • badbackjack [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    As much as I hate AoT - and I really hate Aot- I at least understood it enough to hate it.

    Evangelion, on the other hand..............

    • Awoo [she/her]M
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      4 years ago

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IQqPMsIfX4

        • Awoo [she/her]M
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          4 years ago

          I don't know but it is spectacular and I share it every time I see Evangelion mentioned because it clearly did not get the attention it deserve when this uploader made it.

      • badbackjack [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        It's a big unload. Try this thread . Most of the larger comments are mine.

        Something someone on twitter said recently kinda struck a chord as well. Why box-cutters? Is Isayama drawing parallels with another group of motivated youngsters bringing down giants with boxcutters?

        I'm tellin you, if you're not a japanese nationalist-Isayama doesn't like you.

        • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Try this thread

          Ha! I was the other one in that thread, we are "the chapos that don't see eye to eye on AoT"

          You're still cool though

  • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I'm pretty sure a dedicated socialist can come up with a Marxist reading on AoT as a criticism of fascism that's really convincing because (I feel) there's enough wiggle room for interpretation in the narrative, especially vis a vis all the Imperial Japanese and Jewish imagery... but as other Chapos have pointed out Isayama has had very bad takes regarding Japanese nationalism and his underlying motivations might well be at odds with our politics, so that hypothetical Marxist reading would need to do a lot of Death of the Author to make it work. Maybe it would be worth it just to breadpill normal people who are only in it for the cool fights, though.

    Anyway, that kinda 'Don't build walls Fascism is Bad Mmmmmmkay' message does kinda pale in comparison to Eva's dedicated, almost animalistic howl of "GET IN THE DAMN ROBOT (SELF-ACTUALISE), SHINJI!" in scope and urgency, yeah, but it isn't exactly an apples to apples comparison.

  • productiveforces [she/her,des/pair]
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    4 years ago

    Whats the general consensus on 2.0 i just watched the rebuilds and i think it was actually good i have no idea what Anno was thinking about 3.0 tough

  • Doomer [comrade/them,any]
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    4 years ago

    Attack on Titan manga gets pretty fucked up later. It's way worse, in a different way.