Funny how the "media literacy" crowd insists KLK is some kind of own towards fanservice in anime. They are irony poisoned retards who are unable to grasp how someone can be earnest through metaphors and symbolism.
The point of the show is Ryuuko integrating and weaponizing her sexuality, not pointing out bikini armor is not practical...
They are also the type of people who think if one series "subverts" something or parodies it, then that thing can no longer ever be used across the genre because its been destroyed.
Because as we know, once Evangelion mocked the concept of child soldier mecha pilots, Gundam was cancelled forever.
This is an insightful comment. Their subversions become status quo, to the point where a traditional product almost feels subversive.
Imagine a Star Wars movie in 2024 that features a straight white male protagonist who isn’t a morally gray anti-hero, isn’t surrounded by more competent female characters, and isn’t a spy-infused beta male weakling. The mainstream press would lose their minds over such a thing because it would be legitimately transgressive in this climate.
Its why something like Stellar Blade was even news worthy.
The PS2 had uncountable games just like it. I'm able to conjure "Red Ninja: End of Honor" from memory as a close to 1:1 copy across most categories. No one really cared about it other than "oh its a stealth action game but you are a woman, neat" and that was it.
Funny how the "media literacy" crowd insists KLK is some kind of own towards fanservice in anime. They are irony poisoned retards who are unable to grasp how someone can be earnest through metaphors and symbolism. The point of the show is Ryuuko integrating and weaponizing her sexuality, not pointing out bikini armor is not practical...
They are also the type of people who think if one series "subverts" something or parodies it, then that thing can no longer ever be used across the genre because its been destroyed.
Because as we know, once Evangelion mocked the concept of child soldier mecha pilots, Gundam was cancelled forever.
This is an insightful comment. Their subversions become status quo, to the point where a traditional product almost feels subversive.
Imagine a Star Wars movie in 2024 that features a straight white male protagonist who isn’t a morally gray anti-hero, isn’t surrounded by more competent female characters, and isn’t a spy-infused beta male weakling. The mainstream press would lose their minds over such a thing because it would be legitimately transgressive in this climate.
Its why something like Stellar Blade was even news worthy.
The PS2 had uncountable games just like it. I'm able to conjure "Red Ninja: End of Honor" from memory as a close to 1:1 copy across most categories. No one really cared about it other than "oh its a stealth action game but you are a woman, neat" and that was it.
Or OneeChanbara, Iirc the general opinion about that game was that japan could be weird, it was a far cry from modern outrage