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Anon buys a can of beans (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] degen@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're getting a lot of shit, but I get you. When the demons were introduced, I had a moment of "ayo what if Frieren is the baddie the whole time and demons are misunderstood". The only thing is it quickly solidifies that the demons are just evil, even though I don't necessarily like that one-dimensional narrative of good and evil.

It probably doesn't help that I finished Attack on Titan just before so I already had elusive, internalized fascism on my mind. I think that's sort of the point with Frieren though. She's supposed to be capital G Good, which is inexplicably brutal toward evil, and that's where the dimensionality comes in.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still can't get where AoT lies on the fascism spectrum

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On the one hand you've got these group of powerful people who were almost genocided, and then on the other you've get them genociding the rest of the world back as an ultimate survival strategy.

But Eren's final form doesn't exactly have the audience rooting for him, even when his motivations are explained. I expected another season where the whole world would unite to take him down, but that did not seem to happen...

So I just can't figure AoT out. Was the whole thing a commentary on fascism itself, or was it literally a revenge/survival plot?

[–] degen@midwest.social 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I heard (not sure how true it is) that the manga creator is politically far-right. That's actually hilarious to me, and it might be the reason the message seems odd. The whole anime is like an essay on how shitty fascism is for the fascists, but then it takes a left turn while lying on its side, if you will.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 13 hours ago

definitely feels like it's trying to say something without saying it