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.
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.
That's not my angle, my angle is having enough self sustainability to defend yourself so if you can't force them back, you can at least hold them to a standstill THEN you have America join to tip the scales. Similar to both WW1 AND WW2 with the British Empire.
NATO Currently is TOO dependent on America, if America reduced it's base presence in Europe, I highly doubt most European would be willing to provide the same level of physical assets that the US provides.
So rather than have it be another endless bank cheque for the Americans to shell out too, how about you first ensure that each country can build up a structure so that they can sustain their own military alliance in the event of an attack so that the US rather than having to rush to defense, can come in on offence which they are better suited for. That was the original goal of NATO till Europe basically used it as a subsidiary so they could spend more on social programs. The former Prime Minister of Japan was keen on having Japan re militarise to not just be a self defence force and have more of a standard military.
As for North Korea, that's from the limited information available via defectors that managed to get out, so it comes with biases. But there is a high chance you can't reunite Korea for years even if there is a political change just to how much conditioning goes on. It's like reintegration for someone that experienced extreme isolation for years, you throw them into a dense city and it'll be like a sensory shock.