And other Ukraine thoughts in this latest interview
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Literally the verbatim ideology of the bad guys in the first Gundam, who were all killed horribly one by one by Tomino.
The man hates fascists and warmongers, and they always die and fail miserably in his shows.
I love how this worldview of Tomino, which he inserts into characters like Char Aznable, is torn apart by After War Gundam X - really underrated series.
Sure, a bit idealistic, but the whole
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The use of newtypes as tools to gain power and influence completely disregards the wishes and humanity of the newtypes themselves, who after all have a human consciousness and are not seeking power, violence, etc. by nature through some enlightened superhuman state. To make a newtype conform to those views, you have to basically force that worldview on them and that has the neat side effect of spreading the ideology to oldtypes and entrench them to be viewed as instruments of war.
is excellent.
I’d certainly think Tomino explicitly rejected that worldview, considering he gave Char one of the most pathetic deaths possible.
It’s consistently those with an oldworld view of thinking that try to use newtypes as a weapon, drawing them into conflicts and destroying them as people with the brutality of war.
interesting take from “kill 'em all Tomino”
i will point out for the people to come my personal method of not being constantly pissed at random famous people
we don’t watch his slop for his personal politics, we watch it because he makes interesting stories
yeah, i get that
i can’t listen to gloryhammer anymore after their extremely racist text messages were unearthed
and i fucking loved that band
Same, metal is a fuckin’ minefield of reaction. I just want to listen to songs with 10 minute guitar solos about wizards fighting dragons
I just gave up on metal altogether after this happened one too many times. I don’t know that band or the controversy you’re referencing, but I am not surprised a band called “Gloryhammer” is full of racists.
Oh boy, I wonder what my favourite SocDem Anime Grandpa is gonna say… Oh. Oh God.
If the population continues to balloon to 10 billion within our finite resources, it will be disastrous. Yet, we don’t hear these words from the people of the 20th-century mindset. For example, do you know the mission of Japan’s Minister for Measures against the Declining Birthrate?
――― Policies to increase the number of children and create a society conducive to child-rearing.
That answer is already wrong. What the Minister really needs to do is something completely different. Our current social system was built in an era when the population was continuously increasing, but from here on, there will be a surplus. This means there will be vacant houses, so the Minister should be working on creating a balanced society where a population of around 50 million can live. Yet, they are still saying, ‘have more, increase the population.’ This is the thinking of people stuck in the 20th-century mindset of mass production and mass consumption, the excessive capitalism.
Yay! Enviromental Activist Tomino is my favourite Tomino. (As an aside, and this is less a criticism of Tomino in particular, but I do hate how depopulation has crept into the discourse surrounding environmental activism, so even well-meaning liberals pave the way towards eco-fascism.)
One can see the potential impasse of relying solely on specialization. There needs to be a revolution in the way we think. However, words like ‘innovation’, ‘revolution’, ‘reform’ are as misleading as communism—they tend to push us towards a totalizing way of thinking, synonymous with socialism, which inevitably leads to totalitarianism.
Totalitarianism is akin to dictatorship; hence, by default, we should lean towards democracy. But democracy is perpetually plagued by the issue of populism—if we were to consider all public opinions, the end result would be indecisiveness. That brings us back to the paradox of needing some form of control over the whole.
The Newtype I envision is an entity that transcends those limitations, one that integrates opposing views and the status quo, while simultaneously seeking a novel system or direction. Humanity needs an Aufheben – to transcend and sublate. This diverges from the traditional notion of revolution, and is certainly not the same as reform. This isn’t a matter of right or wrong. Considering its social impact, there’s hardly anyone, including those in their 30s, who can articulate and contemplate this issue accurately. They are all Oldtypes, and hence, President Zelenskyy is just a budding Newtype.
The children of today, aged around seven to thirteen, who can precisely grasp the explicit issues surfacing in Putin’s War, and discern a future path forward from a neutral perspective, are the ones who may embody the Newtype once they assume decision-making positions. It’s your generation’s duty to ensure they safely reach adulthood. This is something beyond my capabilities now, so please, do persevere.
To be a bit more serious and discuss the concept- as I understood it, this was always Tomino’s intended meaning: a person who was the end product of dialetics, a Hegelian counterpart to the Ubermensch at the End of History (in short, a New Type of Person), able to transcend the old ways of thinking and sublimate them into synthesizing a new way forward that would get history moving again- hence why in all his stories Newtypes don’t resolve the conflict with violence, but empathy and understanding. (Also, for some reason, he coded them all autistic so maybe he was being more literal than I care to credit him for.) You can see the ghost of the Marxist that was here, although maybe the roots of this concept was too deep in Hegel’s idealism, and the failures of the New Left followed by the fall of the Soviet Union too traumatic.
Having said all that, I have no fucking idea how he landed on Zelenskyy lmao wtf is he thinking
On the whole this is one of his less spicy and problematic interviews (Tomino Don’t Be Weird About Women Challenge: IMPOSSIBLE), but this probably should be an abject lesson that no one is immune to propaganda.
Edit: You know what this means Hexbear, we need a Zelenskyy Newtype emoji now
Edit 2: Somebody good at photoshop put Zelenksyy’s face on this
The New Left -> Crank pipeline my beloved
Miyazaki has become a doomer nationalist radlib - Tomino has become a barely coherent lib - Oshii seems to be politically decent, but has been poisoned by the gamer mind virus (and Kazunori Ito, someone who he worked with closely in the late 80s to mid 90s, has been getting into twitter fights with chuds last time I checked… but probably isn’t more than a socdem.)
The woes of modernity is that cool people have disappeared almost completely from public consciousness, or have become washed up in terms of politics - Japan is no exception.
I remember a Miyazaki interview where he said he could never make another Kiki’s Delivery Service after seeing the bombing of Yugoslavia.
I feel like growing old and financially successful rots one’s brain in a weird way.
Kazunori Ito, someone who he worked with closely in the late 80s to mid 90s, has been getting into twitter fights with chuds last time I checked…
Lmao, I’ve been meaning to revisit .hack (the anime, definitely not the games at this point)
I feel like growing old and financially successful rots one’s brain in a weird way.
Material conditions and class interests my beloved.
Also .hack is pretty good. The soundtrack is fantastic. Patlabor EZY, which supposedly is gonna come out next year, is certainly gonna be interesting. He’s in charge of the project, but I’m not aware if Oshii is also along for the ride.
population of around 50 million
Sure, being anti-capitalist-growth is good but Japan has 124 million people. Dude is really out here on that “half of people shouldn’t exist” ecofash shit huh.
I don’t think he’s suggesting wiping out half the population, he’s saying to let the falling birth rate lower the population and not interfere until then.
He’s saying to send most of the population out into space and then have a war that kills half of the human population.
the Prigozhin coup was the real gundam plot. Zelensky is just some Gjallarhorn stooge to waste the MC’s time before they can take down the real big bad.
