ITT: Communist animes and mangas

It also criticized communism, socialism, and many other ideas as Kino no Tabi is fairly nihilistic and jaded. Exploring numerous parables, ideologies, as well as the human condition in varying negative lights.

pretty much the only anime I like

I like it for that though. I believe the central question the story asks is what it means to lead a meaningful life. All it gives you is negative answers though.

You see parables for how humans live and die in all her journeys and it all seems so meaningless. Throwing away your life to a volcano because you couldn't abandon your homeland, wasting your life putting down rails or checking calculations while believing you are doing something meaningful, surviving at any cost by making yourself into monsters, murdering the innocent for the price of peace between superpowers. It just keeps going and wherever you go, you find more negative answers, more failures, more meaninglessness.
I also love it's cultural criticism, like in the land with the tank paintings or the land of free press.

It fulfils it's purpose to make the reader rethink their ideals. Think of how many people believe that if we could just understand each others thoughts, we would all live happily and in peace. Starting off by smashing that fantasy was a good start to a great story.

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While Kino is one of my favourites, there is other anime like it out there, containing philosophical themes and a melancholic dark atmosphere. Look up some of these to see if they are to your liking:

Ghost in the Shell (Futuristic cyberpunk with all the fun future technologies you can wish for)
Haibane Renmei (mellow story about girls in purgatory finding their salvation)
Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita (very strange episodic show about a world where humanity has been replaced as the dominant species)
Kaiba (commenting on wealth inequality in a world where bodies can be traded like labour, features all kinds of other stuff, strange artstyle)
Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi (similar to Kino but less jaded, a young girl travels through her fantastical world)
Mononoke (an exorcist goes on the hunt for youkai, dark themes and strange art)
Shigofumi (very much like Kino, about an angel that delivers letters from the dead and seems many terrible things done by humans in the process, bullying episode hit me hard)
Shinsekai yori (very good story, interesting themes, keep watching because it gets better, I won't spoil anything)
Mushishi (a mix of Kino and Mononoke, again about a travelling exorcist that gets caught up in many different social situations)

The original is much darker than the anime, here you go.

Socdem rather than commie, but the idea of idealism forced against a corrupted societal order is prominent in Fullmetal Alchemist and Rurouni Kenshin.

I would also throw Ghost Hound, by the same author as GitS, into the list. It's slightly less of a anthology than the others, but the dark philosophical atmosphere and political undertones are similar.

Jing the Bandit King is also sort of like Kino, but more lighthearted, with a dash of Space Adventure Cobra.

Many artists whose work was published in the GARO avant-garde manga magazine were leftists, most notably Sanpei Shirato (of Kamui-den fame).

Some enjoyed varying degrees of cult following (such as Shigeru Mizuki or Nekojiru) but most sadly remained buried too deep underground and their work was never translated into English.

Code Geass also, it's about rebellion against a fascist with robots.

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I can't figure out if Gits is leftist or not, they spend most of their time fighting fascists and the Asian migrants are clearly shown to be good guys while America is evil, but then in one episode they go and slaughter dozens of anti cyber/corporate militants who are clearly in the right given the setting. Not to mention stopping the coin assassin. It seems sort of liberal to me, I don't know

I only watched the movie, the series is still on my to watch list.
I believe the ideology behind media isn't really that important, as long as you can look past it and extract enjoyment and wisdom.

Take Captain Harlock for example, that show is jap/pol/ as fuck, even featuring the infamous right wing death squad scene in this webm. It's surprisingly relevant today, a story about alien immigrants infiltrating society and leading it down the path of fun and passivity. Meanwhile, the hero Harlock, a patriot without a country, fights a solitary fight for the future of earth, against the encroaching armada of the invaders.
This show had really powerful scenes, like one of the protagonists abandoning society and joining the pirates by shooting and burning the flag of the united earth. It's a story about camaraderie, honour and courage. I enjoyed that about the show, even if it was clearly trying to drive me in a nationalists direction. Give it a watch if you have some spare time, it's long winded, often cheesy and internally inconsistent, but if you look past it's faults, embrace the journey and look back at it later, that memory will be a fond one.

Would Bersek count? Or is anarchist stuff counted?

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Kill la Kill is the ultimate smashie smashie the fashie anime and if you disagree with this notion then you should kys asap

I mean Jesus Christ, even the MC's clothes are black and red

This. Started watching it the last time someone posted this webm and its a pretty good hidden gem in anime

Yes, and just like real life anarkiddies, it ends with her collaborating with the bourgeois and fascists.

Satsuki fully rejects her fascist ideology by the time they work together

I don't know why people think this lmao. Satsuki is literally the ideal of a fascist leader and her crew represent the perfect fascist organization. It's especially strange after Trigger's fascist opus gurren lagann.

Trigger didn't make Gurren Lagann, what are you talking about. Gainax just had an exodus and some of the people that worked on it ended up at Trigger. You might as well claim that Trigger made Evangelion. Although Inferno Cop came very close to that.

this doesn't make sense, because I watched it and identified with the good guys against the bad guys. if the bad guys were my allies, I would have sensed it