Are they annoyed that it’s catering more and more to creepy isekai slave harem and loli shit?
On a side note, most modern isekai give me the impression of catering to an ever increasingly capitalism fatigued society. People are so desperate to escape and I see isekai taking advantage of that in a rather unhealthy way, whisking the self-insert protagonist away to a world where he is the dominator of others. I find myself disliking most modern anime that people recommend to me because a lot of it has leaned hard into the worst tropes of the genre. That’s not to say that all modern anime is bad and that old anime didn’t have the same problems, but I’m finding the ones that get popular seem to all be shit I hate lol.
Cells at Work looks cute tho
more and more left adjacent stuff
Not doubting you, but do you have any examples? I’m not really familiar enough with new shonen but this sounds kinda interesting.
You’re definitely spot on with the rest.
Just to clarify, Shonenjump is becoming more liberal as opposed to out-and-out leftist, in the same-ish ways Marvel movies pay lip service to leftist messaging. Underdog stories about young people mobilizing to fight against the powers that be sell. Nowadays, even moreso.
Having said that- Demon Slayer is a pretty good example, because the demons are basically vampires and you know what Marx said about vampires. It’s not explicit but the subtext is there.
86 is Umberto Eco’s UR-FASCISM for dummies, and the fact that chud’s were bitching about the show’s portrayal of racism should tell you everything you need to know. Pretty lib, tho.
Kaguya-sama has kinda interesting things to say on the intersection between gender and class except that 1) the anime isn’t finished so I dunno if they’ll stick the landing in lib land and 2) any deeper social commentary takes a backseat to the relationship drama and comedy. But it’s easy to end up with a reading of it which identifies the war in the title as class war.
Jujetsu Kaisen’s artist draws non-sexualised female characters because “his mom reads his stuff”, and probably had the best speech articulating women’s liberation for dummies from any protagonist shonen character I can recall recently.
SpyxFamily is set in a fictionalized East Germany except that it’s fascist instead of communist? I can’t tell if it’s libs unable to tell the difference or a knowing wink-wink nudge-nudge from the author. Probably lib :brainworms: , if I’m being honest. Very cute story about found family.
Promised Neverland is probably the most explicitly leftist show on this list, but that should be a given considering horror-as-a-genre’s long ties to leftism. Go in blind if you can and stop after season 1.
One Piece has become a story about a bunch of revolutionaries trying to overthrow a corrupt world government? But I don’t have the time to keep up so that’s just hearsay on my part.
Likewise I have it on pretty good authority that Chainsaw Man is incel recovery 101 but I’m a filthy anime only so I dunno.
This is what I got, it’s late here so I probably missed some stuff and there’s definitely better stuff you can find if you go off the beaten track- I’m a bit behind on anime cos I have to adult and have no time :kumagawa-jokerfied:
