GiTS 2026 censored Israel to the fictional country of Ghorantl
Submitted 23 hours ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to anime@ani.social
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Crank@ani.social 23 hours ago 
waltersf@bookwyr.me 16 hours ago I wouldn’t call it censorship when you don’t want to get sued or bombed on for making a prediction so well in advance about countries seeing us more expendable than androids. We are seeing GitS play exactly how capitalists intended, and you had three generations to prevent this dystopia from occuring. Yet here we are, four apartheid genocides into the 21c, and not a damn change. I agree with @cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com in the /₀🧵: so what? Are you just noticing artists have had to not mention WIPO signing nations direct names and creatively name them something else in their art? Get creative, luddite.
Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Okay so they renamed a country. Why should I care?
punkisundead@slrpnk.net 22 hours ago
Dont know the context in which Israel gets mentioned in the original or Ghorantl in the new anime. Could you maybe fill me in on that?
Besides that, my hopeful interpretation is that the creators dont believe Israel would (still) exist in tga universe
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
- waltersf@bookwyr.me 16 hours ago
Not to do OP’s homework, but no. Both the anime & manga utterly believed Zion would still be apartheing Palestine. We are playing out a 40 year old prediction to a damned T.
And non of your parents or you did anything to deter it.punkisundead@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
And none of your parents or you did anything to deter it.
Like, do you know me or why do make such claims? Feels a little unnecessary.
Galapagon@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Well the setting is 2029 so…
Nori@ani.social 9 hours ago Kinda hate the name changes a lot just because they make it even harder to follow. I’m bad with names anyway and I can’t for the life of me remember these fantasy names that don’t even sound like countries.
Still really like it, but this really isn’t helping with my one big complaint about this otherwise fantastic adaption.
menas@lemmy.wtf 21 hours ago
“True socialist state are slavery one”, people complaining about union and major Kusanagi is eager to make a new unit to kill terrorists. This is the first 10 minutes of the 1st episode. So no surprises that thos dumb right-wing creator protect Israel too.
Whatch Stand Alone Complex
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
I would call the creator a dumb right wing, he might have changed the names, but it is obvious what they refer to:
Ghorantl / “Golantoru”: Israel (Golan Heights), toru means to take. Meaning take Golan Heights.
Mesamia: Syria (Mesopotamia)
Volgarena: The USSR / Russia (Volga River)
So what? The world does not revolve around Israel. We can make up fictional country names with real world analogs all the time. There's an entire TVTropes entry for it.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FictionalEarth