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What are your favourite animes from 2023? (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it's Vinland Season 2 and Frieren for storytelling. Jujutsu kaisen 2 and The Eminence in Shadow Season 2 for raw fun.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the bad guys are portrayed as so neurodivergent that the only safe way to interact with them is through violence and death, and any attempts at diplomacy or negotiations is just camouflage for something sinister. They try to take the edge off by making them magical fascists who perpetuate genocide, but really they could have just made them ontologically evil instead

My takeaway was that the show did make them ontologically evil. They're not fascists with an ideological goal of committing genocide, they are asocial predators whose natural behaviour is to kill people, and they are capable of vocalising in the pursuit of that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

they are asocial predators whose natural behaviour is to kill people, and they are capable of vocalising in the pursuit of that.

Idk man it's still kinda icky, especially when in the real world racists will use language like that to justify their racism. I think I'd have preferred if they just left out all the EvoPsych stuff altogether and let the bad guys just straight up be evil spirits or something, without explaining anything.