Post #4048605

2026-07-23 23:03 UTC

And even Frisk, who's normally disdained my taste for speculative material, was taken aback by the social realism of Legends of the Galactic Heroes. Imagine an American animated series with a nuts-and-bolts antifascist narrative, set in space. You just can't, can you? The only U.S. series I've EVER seen so far that felt like a good antifascist tale was that adaptation of Phil Dick's The Man in the High Castle, and even it starts to go subtly wrong somewhere after the first season or two. I will lightly pass over the subject of how 'white' audiences have interacted with #anime. They have done some very interesting and appalling psychic surgery on themselves in order to slot anime into a central pillar of their reactionary world-view. Vic Mignogna plays a role in all that. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 23:07

It's all in the service of the great right-wing project to purge "politics" from their awareness. They do not consider what they do themselves as "political" but rather as part of their sacred mission from God, or someone impressive anyway, so they're free to regard all politics as sinful. Politics implies disagreement and argumentation and in their world nobody disagrees and nobody has to argue over anything because everyone's on exactly the same wavelength down to the precise fraction of a millihertz. They succeed in believing that Mobile Suit Gundam and similar anime series are "apolitical" somehow, and it's easy enough to guess that their brains tune out all the social commentary because to them it's just military adventures in space with giant robots and pew-pew ships. (cont'd)

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