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.
Yeah, goblin slayer is too tough a subject for anime fans. They as a rule don’t have the artistic literary to not have the worst takes about it. I know my takes are awful about it.
The problem is when a show is good in a number of ways people switch their brains off to criticism unless the criticism is so blatantly obvious that it can’t be ignored. You can see this with Attack on Titan which they generally accept deserves criticism for its blatantly fascist message. Since the issues with Goblin Slayer are hidden within the art and framework rather than the explicit point of the story this gets lost on them.
I just like the show about a guy who fights to protect the poor people the government ignores because it is the right thing to do. Then everyone sees how cool he is for doing that and become his friends.
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.
I feel like being fash and enjoying sexual violence is the background radiation of anime in general though.
Certainly for a certain strain of anime.
watch better anime
For real. The only shows I’ve seen that meet those criteria are things I intentionally hate watched like Cross Ange lol
I feel like most mainstream stuff. Think about the trope of the fall into chest stuff. That is like ever classic anime you know?
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
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