Are there any good, blatantly Communist animes?
I feel like that would be the breakthrough I need with one of my friends.
Blatantly as in hammer and sickle flags everywhere? No. Really the only anime I can think of that includes the eastern bloc is Monster, and I don’t remember if they portray east Germany doing superhuman eugenics and align with Nazis lol
dallos is about a worker’s rebellion
revolutionary girl utena is more allegorical but is the best show of all time and is entirely about why liberalism is flawed and we need to escape the current capitalist mode of thinking
patlabor is a cop show by people who understand why cops are bad but are more concerned with “wouldn’t it be funny if the cops had to try and plan for godzilla and were really bad at it?” the answer is it would be VERY funny. patlabor the movie is a perfect action movie about those cops being goofy but stopping a terrorist attack. patlabor 2 is a 2 hour lecture on imperialism and japan’s place in the new post-soviet world order
Dallos and Patlabor are both Mamoru Oshii directed things - him, and other anime and manga creators that had a history with Japanese new left tend to have some nice crunchy politics in their works. I’d say that Oshii is the one with the most “openly communisty” work, but others will give you some tasty anti-imperialist themes (like with Yoshiyuki Tomino and certain eras of Hayao Miyazaki)
Jojo Bonaparte fucking slaps
