In a rare example of the YouTube algorithm doing it's job (mine seems focused on actual comedy, action and food), I kept getting shorts showing off different Manhwa. I knew about thanks to Solo levelling and the few shows that Crunchyroll promoted that didn't live up to the hype they pushed so made a Webtoons account to try it out...
Yeah I fell into a rabbit hole thanks to 4 series....
The short that got me into it was of Teenage Mercenary thanks to a short of him beating the crap out his sister's bullies. This is good action series with one of my favourite characters being Dushik Cha, with many comments calling him the 'gangster uncle'. From there started to move on to ZOMGAN thanks to recommendations. This one REALLY goes hard early on in that it comes with music, great visuals and a dark comedy vibe to it. I then after catching up, moved to The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower, an action comedy that is just a fun time especially with the main character's attitude.
Then there is the one that REALLY made me realise I'm in this rabbit hole forever, Omniscient Reader, dear god is this a good series as it even made Twitch streaming sound badass!
So while western comic media is circling the drain and the film universes are fatiguing, it does seem like if you want entertainment both read and watched, you turn East. So has anyone else got into similar rabbit holes as I know we have a large anime viewership here and can maybe have a few recommendations for a guy just starting to branch out.
It's Friday so let's have some good things we can suggest for the weekend rather than be drained by all the shit we see advertised in the West.
That's not understandable. WW2 was 75 years ago at this point. The Koreans are whiny little bitches. Thanks to Imperial Japan and being a colony, Korea got off incredibly easy in WW2 and suffered fewer dead than pretty much any other country. The Koreans lie constantly about comfort women (many if not most of whom weren't even korean) and constantly harangue Japan about comfort women bullshit even though Japan has apologized dozens of times, paid reparations, and so on.
I can understand to some degree when the Chinese do it, because the Japanese killed tens of millions of them, but even the Russians don't constantly complain about Germany.
I'm so sick of the fucking Koreans acting like children and playing the victim over petty shit. They did it to the United States, too, over mad cow disease and over really minor incidents (like a traffic accident) with the US soldiers stationed there to keep the Koreans safe from their "brothers" in the North. Ingrates.
And that's not even getting into the whole lunatic shit the Koreans get up to when it comes to Dokdo/Takeshima, they lose their god damn minds over that shit.
South Koreans should be VERY happy with and friendly towards both Japan and the United States. They'd have nothing without our two countries. We have them everything from security to economic prosperity, and instead they act like spoiled brats and pick fights with Japan.
All I know is that the dude who made Sword Art Online liked to talk shit about America and portray Americans in a bad light as an enemy of Japan. He's an outlier, though.
The extreme nationalism comes from the dictatorship that ran SK for decades. You're right that it's been long past due for South Korea to realize what's done is done. Vietnam did it with the US and they've benefited from doing so.
No it does not. That shit ended in 1987, and all then older south koreans are the ones who don't bite the hands that feeds. It's the younger generation spoiled by new wealth and full of misguided delusions of their own superiority that start all the shit.
1987? The president right after 1987 was one of the military dictators...
It would be better if they could move past it as a 3 way alliance of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan would be the best for all 3 countries. So thinking that front, I think some of this resentment is political and media manipulation to continue it than genuine resentment, similar to BLM in America or the anti English sentiment in the UK.
I think the most I usually see when America is portrayed in a negative light in Anime so not the author's personal comments but the actual work, is usually being gun ho and causing a lot of collateral damage in their actions
Which is kinda fair considering as one of the most American things on film is a guy in a cowboy hat riding a nuke to the ground.
Huh? Any such alliance excluding the United States would be worthless. Who do you think defends all 3 of those countries right now? The United States would be by far the most powerful and leading member of any Asia-Pacific alliance.
Koreans are raised to see themselves as victims and taught anti-Japanese propaganda. Young South Koreans actually favor North Korea more than Japan or the US because they're thinking along tribal, ethnic lines instead of paying attention to the fact that the North wants to kill them.
I pretty much never see the US depicted in anime. It's extremely rare. Anime is extraordinarily Japan-centric. The only "international" anime I remember off the top of my head is JoJo.
I think after seeing how NATO has played out, the first step should be an alliance that is self reliant and can sustain itself, then they can have the US as an ally that can tip the scales rather than be completely dependent on them as is the case in Europe.
North Korea is an extremely weird case as they've conditioned the people to hate their southern neighbours but the few with eyes open are constantly scanning the fences for a way out either to the south or further out of China (as they'd just get returned), I honestly think that even if the North Korean leadership dies tomorrow for some reason, the North Korean people would HAVE to remain isolated from the south for decades to slowly de-condition them.
There's a few times America is depicted in anime i remember but you are right it is rare. It's mostly either Japan or another world.
No that's not how it works at all. You attitude seems to be "asia should be for the asians" but this is naive tribalist bullshit not to mention American ethnocentric bullshit assuming that all "asians" have some sort of fraternal bond. These countries don't even like each other. The United States is the only unifying influence.
"we shouldn't be dependent on America" okay then, fend for yourselves, American taxpayers don't spend so much money on defense to be invited to be unpaid mercenaries for randoms only when needed.
With respect, you don't have the faintest clue what goes on in North Korea, so it's weird and pretentious to see you pop off like you're an expert on shit not even the CIA has a clear picture of. Your perception based on extremely incomplete information is not reality.