Comment on TIL why I think anime is winning over Western adaptations
shani66@ani.social 3 hours ago
No, very stupid thing to say. All art has a message or belief (usually progressive, at that), anime is created in a conservative hellscape and so usually simply has ideas you already internalized. I won’t make assumptions about you, but many idiots often also just ignore the message of Japanese works and claim it’s ‘apolitical’ or whatever fake standard they pretend to have.
The reason eastern entrainment tends to be better is because it usually has less fingers in the pie. Most of the best anime, manga, and even games can ultimately be attributed to a single person’s vision, either because they had a hand in every production based on their creation or because the studies stayed true to their vision as a rule. That isn’t the case with Western entertainment, Spider-Man has been recycled through dozens of different authors with even more interpretations, it is not the vision of any single person anymore. Not to mention design by committee nonsense that makes up the biggest names in Western media
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
I really do think Western media is more likely to hit you over the head with it’s message than Japanese media though.
shani66@ani.social 3 hours ago
That’s just not true.
P4 was so painfully obvious about it’s messages of tolerance and feminism that some people thought it was even more progressive than it was intended to be (making naoto out to be trans instead of the message it intended: acceptance of women in all areas of life). Wonder Egg literally had someone fight a physical manifestation of transphobia that was threatening to ‘cut it off’ when talking to a trans girl just to make it so obvious it’s impossible for those stupid people i mentioned before to ignore it. Killing slimes for 300 years is the most heavy handed anti-work culture piece of media i have ever seen and I’m in the anti-work movement. I haven’t watched One piece but it’s apparently obvious in it’s message against authoritarianism. Anti-homophobia messages tend to be said out right in long running shows or yuri/yaoi shows. Nothing gets more brow beat-y and obvious than anti-war and anti-violence stories in eastern media.