Anime

1851 readers

46 users here now

This community is the place to discuss and ask questions about anime, anime news, and related topics.

Currently airing show discussion threads are created by our resident bot, [email protected]. If it doesn't make a thread for an episode that you want to discuss, see the user guide on the wiki for instructions on how to ask rikka to make a thread for you to use.

Check out our wiki to find:

Rules

More complete rules on the wiki.

Posts must relate to anime or similar (donghua, etc.)
Discussion threads for currently airing media must be made by the bot. If there isn't a discussion thread made for a piece of media you want to discuss, then request it via pm.
Ensure that all series spoilers are tagged. See here for details.
Memes should be directed toward [email protected] (or similar) instead of this community
Do not post explicitly NSFW material. Please use your best judgement when marking lewd material as NSFW, unmarked material risks being removed.
Please redirect discussion of piracy towards a more appropriate community
Any clips from currently airing shows cannot include content from episodes released within the past 7 days.
All posts and comments must adhere to the ani.social Terms of Use
In general, keep things civil and avoid attacking other individuals.

Related General Communities

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected] - Videos
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected] (Brazil community)
[email protected] (Spanish language community)
[email protected] (Myanmar community)
Megathread of other communities on the fediverse maintained by @[email protected]

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

wjs018

Who is Granted Personhood? Frieren’s demons and the trouble with the “inherently evil race” trope (www.animefeminist.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

33 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cats are evil because they kill for fun, just like the Demons in the story. One of the Demons literally made an army of headless soldiers just because they can. They aren't just killing for food, and even if they where doing that, nothing prohibits them from eating something else. They eat humanoids out of a superiority complex and kill for fun. Thats the literal point.

I meant that in other anime. There are so many anime where demons are not necessarily an evil race and instead are just misunderstood.

Wasn't clear, but ok. If its about other stories then yeah. You are right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cats are evil because they kill for fun

It's their nature. I don't think projecting human morals on different creatures works. Not for cats, not for demons. To be clear, that doesn't mean I think they're 'good guys'. They just are.

Wasn't clear, but ok

Yeah fair, I can see how it's not clear. My bad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Actually its not their nature. Most wild cats don't kill for fun, nither do wolfs. We humans literally teached them to do that. Wild dogs and house cats do kill for fun and its not "their nature"

Humans kill each other for fun and we call it evil, its our nature to do that!

This argument makes little to no sense. The Frieren Demons are best compared to Nazis that killed out of a superiority complex. Nazis are evil, so are the Demons.

[–] Cybersteel 2 points 9 months ago

The turtle wanted to cross the river. Scorpion bro came up to it and said like hey bro give me a lift. Tortoise was like sure dude. In the middle of the river the scorpion stung the terrapin and he be like what's the matter dude why did you do that for? Scorpion be like, no cap bro, it's in my nature.