I'd say yes, and also no. Eva is aware enough of what it's doing to have reasons and payoffs for some of the fanservice, but that doesn't change the fact it's still doing it.
Super wizard prison where demons torture the inmates by stealing their happy memories until they go mad or kill themselves was pretty fucked up. I think they got rid of the demons eventually but because people kept escaping. Certainly seems like she'd have some uh interesting opinions on criminals and retributive justice.
Nah, I'm just wrong on this one and bad at media comprehension, disregard what I said.
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Taking care of yourself and the mental health of those around you is 100% praxis. Also its adorable.
I can add some more:
The Adventure Pals, Almost There: The Platformer, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam + 2 DLCs, Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon, Yoku's Island Express, Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition, The First Tree, Fight'N Rage, SOMA, Acceleration of SUGURI 2, Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!, Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, Yooka-Laylee, Empire: Total War Collection, Tooth and Tail, Rakuen, Black the Fall, Snake Pass.
Honestly now you've said it, it's borderline explicit how clear Phos can be as a trans allegory, there are definitely some points later in the show I wont discuss here that I can see in a new light. I think part of the reason I missed it (rather than just my own self projection) is the genderless society, which does both obscures and highlight the idea of gender dysphoria, by making it not technically about gender anymore but showing the pure emotions of it, removed from our societal constructs.
Though it is a weird feeling to have a character I so deeply related to, suddenly gain potential depth I wasn't aware of/and can't fully relate to. Again I'm cis and this is outside of my experience, so please trust I mean no offense by anything.
I 100% don't want to disregard your reading or imply mine is any more true, but it's eye opening to me that you see Phos as a transgender representation whereas I, being cis + depressed, only saw them as depressed and similar to myself without considering a dysphoria angle. I guess maybe that's a sign of good art that people can read and relate to the same character from different angles.
I do love this show a lot and have already rewatched it multiple times, and read the manga to a similar point to where the anime stops, but had only really approached it from my own perspective, so that's a bonus of these group rewatches.
Interestingly Sakura, who obviously is a parallel to Kino, in the japanese version was the first voice acting role of Aoi Yuuki, who later went on to voice Kino herself in the 2017 series.
I can't believe you'd post pictures of a known extreme anti-Semite who has done such terribly anti-Semitic things such as uhhhhhhhh...
They're just like normal streamers, but instead of using a webcam they use face-tracking software to display an anime character. For people(weebs) that have a hard time connecting to real people, it helps bridge that gap. Also since a lot of them are part of companies together they are friends with each other and meet up, so them talking about when they hung out recently and what not really hits that parasocial relationship angle, for me at least.
Necromancy is the magic of conservatism.
Especially when so many peoples main sticking point when it comes to even going vegetarian is "But I like X meat product too much", having direct alternatives is a good encouragement for them.
Yeah I definitely would have preferred some message to the effect of "Now you've gained humanity from caring for this woman you can find your own purpose and meaning in life", but that's an angle a little too dramatic and involved for Kino to take.
And it's a small nitpick but it did bother me how robotic and mechanical the family was at dinner, but they instantly became more conversational and sympathetic when it's time to explain everything to Kino.
Undertale is good. It created a kind of annoying fanbase but what popular thing doesn't, either way its still very good.
She's not necessarily "wrong" about a lot of the things she's saying, but that's pretty easy to do when you make weak strawmen arguments and act like the people who disagree with you are all idiots who don't see the big picture, and you don't address the things Biden could potentially be worse on.
Obviously it's a complicated and personal problem and nothing any stranger on a website can say will really fix anything, but what helped me was geniunely just focusing on anything at all that brings you any amount of joy even if its small stupid things. That and the idea that fuck it who knows, it could be a little better tomorrow, it probably won't be, but it might and that's enough to get me through a day at a time.