Pocahontas came out in 1995. Anime had already been doing it’s creepy pedophilic reactionary thing for decades at that point. I also already admitted that 50% of the origins of this shit comes from the American/capitalist imported culture. Japan certainly takes it to another level though and makes it much more overt. There are weird incel revenge fantasy animes where the entire plot revolves around SAing those who “wronged” the protagonist, I can’t recall anything that depraved being mainstream in the west outside of porn. These animes are available on things like Crunchyroll and Netflix, they are “mainstream” and put up side-by-side with shows like Frieren. (Shield Hero, Made in Abyss, Solo Leveling, Goblin Slayer, Attack on Titan, Death Note, the -monogatari series are all examples of these more overtly fascist/pedo shows that are tolerated and popular in the fandom).
Stuff like AoT and Goblin Slayer are obviously bad, but isn’t the fascistic guy obviously the villain? One who loses, at that? I don’t think telling the story from the villains point of view is an endorsement of the villain.
The villain (protagonist) who is shown to be extremely cool, get a hot goth girl, be worshipped as god, and then given a very bittersweet ending. If the intention was to make the teenage readers not like Light then they failed, as evidenced by every comment section ever on the subject being filled with Light defenders who believe his initial quest was righteous and he just got off track. That killing “criminals” en masse is justice.
Many saw the moral as “absolute power corrupts” and not “who gave this fascist little shit god powers”. Of course we can see that his “downfall” was inevitable since second 0 he was acting like an unhinged reactionary incel, but there are many who instead see it as a legitimate Icarus/Lucifer/downfall story where he was correct at the start - similar to how Lucifer had a point in the war in heaven (that god should save all souls instead of letting some fall into sin).
Lucifer’s original point at least had in its core a good intention, Light is like if Lucifer started out evil in Heaven already wanting to “punish” all the evil souls cause he was just inherently a bitter little shithead, but all the Light fanboys fail to make the distinction because they see being a bitter little shit as a positive thing.
![[CW: Racism] I was a much happier person before I'd heard of Frieren](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/4f3895d3-ba9b-4da6-b745-d43ddc2847c6.png){kind=link}
instead the west has Pocahontas, not 6000 year old dragon ,but still pedo stuff of a real human
Pocahontas came out in 1995. Anime had already been doing it’s creepy pedophilic reactionary thing for decades at that point. I also already admitted that 50% of the origins of this shit comes from the American/capitalist imported culture. Japan certainly takes it to another level though and makes it much more overt. There are weird incel revenge fantasy animes where the entire plot revolves around SAing those who “wronged” the protagonist, I can’t recall anything that depraved being mainstream in the west outside of porn. These animes are available on things like Crunchyroll and Netflix, they are “mainstream” and put up side-by-side with shows like Frieren. (Shield Hero, Made in Abyss, Solo Leveling, Goblin Slayer, Attack on Titan, Death Note, the -monogatari series are all examples of these more overtly fascist/pedo shows that are tolerated and popular in the fandom).
i remember when the nameless incel anime you are referring to was streaming and yeah, it was kinda popular. Glad I never looked into it.
Stuff like AoT and Goblin Slayer are obviously bad, but isn’t the fascistic guy obviously the villain? One who loses, at that? I don’t think telling the story from the villains point of view is an endorsement of the villain.
The villain (protagonist) who is shown to be extremely cool, get a hot goth girl, be worshipped as god, and then given a very bittersweet ending. If the intention was to make the teenage readers not like Light then they failed, as evidenced by every comment section ever on the subject being filled with Light defenders who believe his initial quest was righteous and he just got off track. That killing “criminals” en masse is justice.
Many saw the moral as “absolute power corrupts” and not “who gave this fascist little shit god powers”. Of course we can see that his “downfall” was inevitable since second 0 he was acting like an unhinged reactionary incel, but there are many who instead see it as a legitimate Icarus/Lucifer/downfall story where he was correct at the start - similar to how Lucifer had a point in the war in heaven (that god should save all souls instead of letting some fall into sin).
Lucifer’s original point at least had in its core a good intention, Light is like if Lucifer started out evil in Heaven already wanting to “punish” all the evil souls cause he was just inherently a bitter little shithead, but all the Light fanboys fail to make the distinction because they see being a bitter little shit as a positive thing.
I actually have a terrible hot take about goblin slayer being good axtually.
I would give a good answer if I was the kind of person to watch anime or western movies and shows (treatlerite)
Unfortunately, I didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree. I exist in the context of all in which I live and what came before me
I did