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

watch uc gundam

or read the explanation i wrote in my other post

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

it’s fantastic, it’s so nice seeing adult women spending pleasant time together in a grounded way

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

pyramid inu mostly does classic mecha anime (especially tomino’s gundam) but has room in their heart for other things, including some live action stuff

(pronouns not listed but the vibes make me lean gender neutral to be safe)

watch better anime

well by that point you’ve seen enough to know it’s mostly a scathing satire of car dependent infrastructure

i mean revolutionizing the world is pretty self explanatory.

misread this as daicon instead of daitarn and was like “yeah no shit, she has a lightsaber duel with darth vader and yoda does rakugo. that’s what daicon is, ready player one for the 80s otaku compressed into 4 minutes so you get all the fun leo point moments and cool animation but none of the bullshit”

this is very funny

yeah why did he make kai a greaser punk? kai is just kind of a loser who isn’t immediately willing to throw himself into battle but grows up when he has no other choice. he wasn’t leading a gang and forcing amuro to help him break into military bases

mobile suit gundam (1979)

these two basically INVENTED the yaoi doujin scene, the people simply love toxic situationships. and the sequels live up to that legacy, char’s counterattack especially

when they get to it you should watch episode 3, which is char doing toxic schoolboy yaoi with garma for an hour (in addition to revealing that yas thinks the way he killed garma was char’s super move). it’s very fun, the rest of it is pretty whatever

say what you will about yas, but the man can draw a comic!

I showed my sister, a yaoi fanatic, Gundam: The Origin, and she dropped it once she realized Char was just going to “kick and kill” instead of “fucking and sucking” his way to the top. “If he’s not called the Red Comet because he runs around buck-naked after taking it raw in the ass, I’m not interested.”

this video is the only worthwhile thing to come from the origin

huh. this experience is just like revolutionary girl utena

and yeah you should torrent it or buy the blu-rays if you can afford them (there’s 3 and they’re like 50$ each)

it’s like THE gay anime. it’s the one that gets referenced most, people still talk about it 27 years later, it gets mentioned in every list people make of “here’s 10 anime that have gay people in them!”, it’s the best one by a country mile, and now the only legal way to watch it is to spend hundreds of dollars on the blurays or watch it in 480p on youtube (which is a crime given how pretty it is)

one piece is good but i would like to just say don’t expect too much from its politics. there is an arc where the heroes restore a settler colonial government, and most arcs are about restoring the rightful king to his throne. it might not be what someone looking for good politics is looking for!