I was boredly looking around YouTube on this Sunday morning and in the mood to watch some bozo talk about anime, maybe get some insights, discover some obscure hidden gem and the like.

However, I found it surprisingly hard to find quality in that scene, beyond niche video-makers like Kenny Lauerdale. Thus I was wondering if you have any recommendations of some people you like making videos about anime.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    7·
    16 days ago

    Yeah and that’s ok. It’s the framework and everything around it that is sus. Ranging from the idyllic towns and villages that basically all look like Hitler paintings, to the obvious depiction of women in the show (other than the elf) as tradwives, not to mention the obvious “we must perform genocide” aspect of the goblin menace. Yes the goblin menace might actually be evil but that doesn’t mean it’s not a standin for a certain message, which becomes clearer when you take into account the artistic elements. All the features of fashy shit are there and ooooooo boy does its community and “fanart” audience love SA.

            • Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
              6·
              16 days ago

              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]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  6·
                  15 days ago

                  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