Matt Walsh gets asked, "What's your opinion on anime?"
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There actually is a lot of satanic imagery, symbolism and themes that I have long since believed for years that Japan post WW2 is an experiment. Anime being one small part of it (I also believe how the Japanese economic boom-bust phenomenon was another part of the experiment)... Some people have pushed the idea of cool Japan for decades and it's allowed their anime, manga, etc. Go into some pretty weird shit
Lolis (sexualisation of underage girls), the beatiality both in some generic shows and in porn, transhumanism, sci-fi dystopia (post humanism, i.e so much anime looking at the deconstruction of the human), also extends to a lot of fantasy. And beyond there's so many different genres that still present a sense of authoritarian heirarchy and many stories revolve around characters working to advance up or fit in to the system (could be a loose connection to the beast system). The ones who reject the system are often villains
Speaking of villains, someone in another post bright to my attention the scores of luciferian-archetypal villains in Japanese pop media. Well known examples would be Kefka, Dio are just a handful that I can remember off the top of my head atm. These are characters that are oddly celebrated and have legions of fans
Must people I'm guessing haven't thought about it enough to see the connections because anime and all that dress it up very well
That's just collectivism in general. Its older than anime for Japan to write its stories like that, same with most of Asia. Its like accusing American media of having an insidious plot to indoctrinate children into rebellion by planting ideas of free thinking and democracy.
Most people probably haven't thought of these connections because its just saying things like "Dio is popular" and adding "clearly its because he is a Satanic archetype."
The collectivism is seen as good most of the time even in a dystopia. Japan makes it look convincing because they make these shows look cool. I guess i should've put it better.
American media has similar collectivism presented in a slightly different flavour: the government and/or superheroes maintain the world order, while at the same time espouse some semblance of individualism. seen as good. Villains who have been hurt and see the world as broken try to change things in their own way, but usually end up going too far. i don't think it's that far off from japanese media. just that japan does it better
Look at Psycho Pass where the system is clearly damaging to the mental health of its citizens, and the ones who want to expose & dismantle that system are the villains. The ones who uphold the law to maintain the system are the heroes, so that it can continue to function off of the suffering of the people. by the end of it we're meant to see that as a virtuous thing
Do you prefer stories where the heroes are perpetually the "rebel group" against the "oppressor empire" like in western shows? Even when it didnt make sense like the star wars sequels? like how SJWs see themselves as?.
"Expose" and dismantle the system can easily also be seen as a Marxist thing as well. Marxists like to "expose" all the "faults" of society to create some revolution to take over.
No, I would like them if there was a reasonable basis for it. But thinking about it there are very few media that I can recall that actually has a good rebel vs authority storyline
Re: the Marxist thing -- yes that is part of it exactly. Some of these villains get so much adoration desire being psychopathic
I think you got my stance on this mixed up. I'm not vouching for one side or the other within storylines, I was pointing out my take on how this is all presented to us