Cromalin [she/her]

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  • i gotta hop on dear brother, i was already planning on it but this video convinced me i'll like it WAY more than rose of versailles (which i already liked!)

    also turn a gundam fucking rules and i'm glad they agree that guin is 100% a chaser






  • Cromalin [she/her]
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    in zeta gundam char and amuro are drinking together and amuro makes a joke about how char needs to become a human sacrifice like his father to achieve their goals of freeing humanity from earth's gravity (which is, to oversimplify, a metaphor for bringing about mass class consciousness and breaking the imperialist grip the earth has on its colonies in space)

    in the bottom three panels, char looks at his drink, then looks determined, then the last panel is char in the film char's counterattack, where he has decided to fully become a human sacrifice to achieve this, and amuro is now fighting against him. implicitly char is reminiscing about the previous conversation as he drinks alone this time


  • i have to ask again, you think the problem people have with it is that it says sexual violence is bad? you think that's why people dislike it?

    the sexual violence in sao is also supposed to be bad! they kill the guy who does it! that doesn't excuse the framing, it's still a bad show that handles its sexual assault poorly, but framing sexual violence for titillation is so often combined with setting up a villain and showing just how evil he is. it shows up all the fuckign time, including in series i otherwise love. goblin slayer is worse than most in that it spends more time on it and it's way more explicit than it usually is, and it's the first impression the show gives you



  • wait you think people dislike goblin slayer BECAUSE it shows sexual violence as bad? you think the people who dislike goblin slayer are sitting around going "oh if only there were more wacky sexual harassment i might like this show"?

    the problem with goblin slayer is that it shows the sexual violence in a way where it clearly expects the audience to be jacking off and there is no amount of arcs where characters process trauma that will undo that. your standard anime shittiness simply does not compare



  • you'll notice i didn't include dragon ball on the list of anime that didn't have sex pest stuff or fascism! and again, there's a big difference between dragon ball and goblin slayer

    you're basically saying "all 80s movies love sexual assault, so it's fine that i like revenge of the nerds," and when i respond with a list of 80s movies that don't have any sexual assault or harrassment in them you say "well have you seen how han treats leia in star wars?" those are two very different things! both are bad, but they are at very different levels of it



  • here's some great anime that neither enjoy sexual violence nor fascism. there's plenty more out there, sex pest stuff is hardly "every classic anime". some of these may have some in it but they certainly aren't enjoying it

    • revolutionary girl utena
    • serial experiments lain
    • turn a gundam
    • millennium actress
    • showa genroku rakugo shinju
    • inu-oh
    • madoka magica
    • keep your hands off eizouken
    • liz and the blue bird

    also it's real fucking gross to say "a poor taste joke is exactly the same as on screen sexual assault with deeply fash vibes" there's a big difference between urusei yatsura and goblin slayer




  • Cromalin [she/her]
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    well by that point you've seen enough to know it's mostly a scathing satire of car dependent infrastructure


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    i really don't think the movie thinks your 40s are too late. the message of the film is "there is still time", and though the ending is depressing, the main character has opened themselves up and recognized who they are and finally taken the first step to understanding what's going on inside. not to say your read is necessarily wrong, if that's what you got out of it then that's fair and i'm not trying to convince you otherwise. but i read it as saying "there is always still time" not "there is still time right now while you're 25, but in a decade it'll be too late"


  • Cromalin [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    i mean revolutionizing the world is pretty self explanatory.

    movie spoilers

    it's turning into a cool car so that your girlfriend can get away from the high school that metaphorically represents her abusive brother