part 367 bears and wolves oh my

[aphanon_meme]

YOU DID IT, I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. Well, it's been a year. I hope it was a good one for you--and that 2018 is even better! And maybe we'll finally get that fansub of even one of the musicals... just maybe.

Enjoy part 367!

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Re: looks at the meme like i'm on the office

[(Anonymous)]

While I certainly don't need authors to agree with me in order to appreciate their work - I think in AoT's case the relationship between author's politics and the storyline become more unsettling because there is some alignment. AoT isn't propaganda, but I do think the fantasy of a world in which society should give its all into the military in order to survive, in which the enemy is a grotesque and inhuman horror, while not being fascist in and of itself (give me an hour and I can easily list dozens of other scifi/fantasy that can also be described in the same way) it matches the reasoning of those tweets and that becomes unsettling. Yet, if Hajime Isayama had not written those tweets, I would not feel uncomfortable with anything in AoT. And, I think a lot of people criticizing AoT as propaganda glaze over the fact that much of the story is also dedicated to expressing the horror and waste of war, and obviously there's the fact that titans turn out not to be just an inhuman enemy; it's definitely not that simple. I think the main thing is that because the subject matter of the story lends itself more to political allegory, it's very difficult to extricate the author's views once you know them.

In contrast, Neto-Ju no Susume's author also expressed similar remarks defending Japanese imperialism, but the subject matter of that series is so far removed (it's a slice of life light rom-com about a 30 year old lady NEET who falls in love over an MMO) from any tie-in with politics that I never had to think about that while watching it.

But tl;dr, basically, come to your own conclusions and like what you like. Ultimately, we can't and shouldn't live in a bubble in which we're only going to enjoy the art/writing/whatever of people who have the exact same opinions as we do. Hell, if you get to know anyone well enough you're going to uncover some political stance that you absolutely disagree with.

Re: looks at the meme like i'm on the office

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, to me it was just an another dystopian setting. And I thought it wasn't even sure did Hajime Isayama wrote those tweets? If he did, it's of course possible that his worldview would influence his manga.

What comes to Hetalia, it's not anymore so much about the WWII than it used to be. And it's not even the only series that is about the wars and has comedic elements, 'Allo 'Allo! comest to my mind. It hasn't made me like the nazis.