Leftist Anime Thread

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Isn't that like your everyday life 2 years ago?

:^)

It's about prols in SPAAACE, terrorism, and recourse wars.

And the progress of mankind, depsite all this.

I'll sum it up for you.

That's debatable.
Am not sure if, in the end, the terrorists' leader was much better than NATO, or if they gave their lifes for nothing.

The Bad Sleep Well.

the GitS TV shows are pretty fucking fascist tbh.

This one's good, it's about a girl getting married young to a nice, friendly man.

Which is unheard of usually to real girls, who prefer being degraded and used.

I feel sorry for you now.

Rintaro's 2001 film adaptation of Tezuka's Metropolis.

Bible Black.

That was actually pretty good. Added it to my favorites.

Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo's 2004 steampunk film Steamboy is interesting too, albeit way too action-based.

Also Ghost in the Shell, though it's more philosophical than flat out political. Of course I'm talking about Mamoru Oshii's 1995 masterpiece here, and definitely NOT about the anime. Please, not the anime.

Akira has a lot of left-wing characters, and I think the message is pretty dialectical too.

does a character really say that in the movie?

Yeah, the first movie is fantastic. The TV show… has good moments and bad moments.

Yup, those are the subtitles that came with the MKV. And he does say "shihonka" in Japanese.

Rintaro's Metropolis is about as leftist as Lang's metropolis, which is to say not at all. That and the fact that, like almost everything Otomo commits to film, important scenes transitions get cut for time or budgetary reasons, creating terribly uneven pacing that sinks the amazing visual fidelity.

Yeah, I understand what you mean. But, honestly, that as leftist as you can get in Japanese animation.

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON YOU GUYS?

This is it, I'm fucking done with this meme. Dialectics is truly a nonsense word now. I watched Akira and still don't even fucking know what it was about, but I know it DEFINITELY wasn't class conflict.

Anti-positivist discussion.

You understand Dialectics wasn't invented by Marx right? Anyway, yes, Akira had plenty of class conflict.

All anime are bourgeois.

why

hot anime butt

Jin Roh has many Leftist views in it.

please explain
the only thing leftist there are protests against the government that toned down and lead radicals into the underground and terrorism, using children as runners for messages and supply, like bombs.
the rest is only government intern agency conspiring against each other.

So like in real life?

I noticed that on SAC the reactionary villains get portrayed far worse that the others.
Like the guy behind the individual eleven practically doing it because he was a virgin loser, or the villain of Solid State Society practically doing a "MUH STRONK COUNTRY, MUH USELESS PARASITES" speech before getting killed.
In comparison, the other antagonists tend to be anti-villains at worst.

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God this is just as autist as the millions of threads on LOGH on Holla Forums. Watch this and keep your autism away from politics please.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=exjwsyN4PPQ

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Regardless of his political opinions, the heroic is by nature far right, there are no committees, no communes. A man has a goal and it is achieved through whatever means necessary. Try and add a left-wing spin to any Action movie, make Arnie into a communist. All you will end up is with Stalin's red fascism and some of the heavier Soviet Realism. There are far right circles that celebrate Stalin's war-period policies. Anything that features a rugged individual going up against the "system" is inherently right-wing. You are wrong my friend.

ITT: No fun allowed

Implying all anime are action flicks.

wew

pom poko

Prove it isn't. Unless you want to mention how your favourite slice of life series about cute girls happens to be an allegory for the socialist utopia, of which I'm sure it is.

Correction, no autism allowed. I've watched a shit ton of anime, a lot of the "deep" ones focus on social commentary and not politics, only Oshii "stuck in cold war student politics" generally adds a political theme to his films.

Okay.

I never claimed that there were lots of leftist anime; I merely challenged your assertion that anime was all reducible to action-based stuff that (somehow) couldn't possibly be left-wing. Especially since your assertion that any work of fiction featuring a rugged individual going up against the system is inherently right-wing is complete bull, too.

While that is true of most current anime, that is definitely not true of manga; cf. Sanpei Shirato's popular Kamui series or the recent success of the manga adaptation of Takiji Kobayashi's Kanikousen novel.

The villain is the good guy though and it's liberal as fuck

That show is awful but holy shit is the main girl hot as fuck

A) have you watched Planetes?
B) You can ad a leftist perspective, either as "this is why X is bourgie BS" or "This is how this is actually about class and so on", in any medium of entertainment.

From "Terminator 2 is anticorporation and antihuman nature" to "HotD is about Ideology". (I can actually analize you that myselft).

There is a place for "Pervert's guide to Animu" and "Pervert's guide to Vidya", whether you like it or not.

Now, THAT'S what I call a CHALLENGE!
To view Night shift nurses and Bible Black as anticapitalist works, about abuse of power by corporarations and megalomaniac dictators, and so on.

can we assume that most SoL moe shows take place in a quaint socialist utopia?

K-On doesn't.
… But is K-On moe?

Gakkou Gurashi though…