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Anime - Socialism with Kawaii Characteristics

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I barely watch anime, but I found Saitama from One Punch Man's ennui to be relatable.

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

Kinda afraid to ask, but since one-punchness is rather out, it's about being bald or dead inside?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Eh, being a salaryman will do that to you.

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

He's such a good character tho. I really wish the anime didn't start sucking in s2 and that the dogshit comic wasn't waaay more popular than the webcomic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What's wrong with the Murata manga? I haven't read it but it certainly doesn't look bad

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

~~anime Stalin~~ I haven't watched anime in a while but based on vague memories, maybe Johan from Monster
if manga counts, probably Guts from Berserk or Baku from Usogui

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

There is a Chinese anime about young Karl Marx if that counts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't watched that one yet, maybe Young Marx(TM) will take the top spot

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I haven’t seen any anime in a while, but I’ll say Yugi is gender envy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never got into anime but the only one I like was Avatar, and people said it wasn’t even anime lol

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

If it makes you feel better, amongst my friends we usually let avatar slide for these discussions, it probably deserves it. Maybe we're idiots, but at least we're idiots together!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lol I can agree with that. It isn’t anime and I can sorta recognize why, it has more of a Chinese influence than a Japanese one, it also is drawn slightly differently from full-on anime where the characters have faces shaped like a home plate from baseball(i don’t mean this as a criticism, I only say this because of the angle of the chin they draw lmao)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Guts from Berserk

Everyone from Slayers

Allen Walker from D.Gray-Man

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think mine is Luffy from One Piece

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always found Oda's cavalcade of interesting villians the bigger draw.

Yes, Luffy does some clever stuff, but it's the classic main-character problem: you know the hero's going to win so it's just a matter of how.

I was always fascinated by Arlong for the narrative of "how do power structures change when humans aren't the dominant species", and loved the back-reference where we find out Arlong Park was designed to mimic Sabaody Park, leading into the whole "society is stratified in a very broken way" story that reaches its peak absurdity with the Tennryubito.

The relationship between CP9 and Spandam is perpetually comical.

Even Axe-hand Morgan, for a throwaway villian to establish the main narrative model, he had an interesting character design, and then the Jango side-story that shows his cherished career is built on a lie is an amazing piece of exposition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Luffy kinda suffers from the annoying MC syndrome literally all long seasonal anime i ever seen have (except D.Gray Man, and just look what they did to Allen ffs) - he's too quirky. Actually most of other characters too, but the one we see the most have a time to get old on us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Luffy really is the default #1, gotta do #2 for these kinds of things because luffy is too goated

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Luffy for being based. Team Rocket for their transness. Favorite despite everything is probably fucking Sailor Neptune or Sailor Moon. That show gets emotion more than almost anything else I've watched, legit all the dark magical girl shit made in response has nothing on Sailor Moon, which is way darker and handles emotions with more maturity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I really don't like the edgy/dark magical shows (which is why I'm only interested in viewing traditional/light magical shows like Sally the Witch and Cardcaptor Sakura; wish these were trending again), although I am interested in seeking out Sailor Moon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sasuke is my spirit animal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As I've matured and begun to appreciate his vision for anarchy, it makes me regret exclusively seeing him as an edgelord while I watched/read the series. Seeing him in Boruto has helped be better appreciate him, even though he's a it of a shell of his former self in it.

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

If you have time, could you elaborate on your thoughts for his vision for anarchy? I haven't watched in a couple years, and definitely just have young sasuke as am edgelord, would be cool to see another point of view.

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

I'm going to put this into spoilers for obvious reasons.Well so, after he learns that Konoha is the reason why his entire family was massacred and that there was no attempt to improve conditions for the Uchiha clan to avoid a coup d'état (if you read the Itachi light novels you learn that Danzo actively sabotages Shisui's attempt to influence Fugaku into stopping the plan for the coup), he forms a band of anarchists based on who he got to meet through his time with Orochimaru and partner with the Akatsuki with plans of overthrowing the leaf village and all the ninja governments since he sees them as responsible for the conditions of ninjas who are oppressed. He holds onto this plan all the way to the end of Shippuden, resulting in the fight between him and Naruto, who wants to maintain the order of the shinobi world and simply reform it from the inside through improvements to leadership. By failing to overpower Naruto he recognizes he does not have enough power to achieve the change he wants to make so he settles to work alongside Naruto and bide his time. In Boruto, I get the impression he cautiously trains Boruto and shows him the values of anarchy to see if perhaps he can convince him as a mentor to pick up steam for a revolution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very interesting, thanks for that out. I only really remembered big "destroy the leaf village" energy which seemed to me to be a lot of civilian murder, but I definitely paid less attention to sasukes group than the other stuff going on. Gave up on boruto right around sasuke beginning to teach boruto, nice to hear that maybe something will happen there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same lol. Moody? Yup. Kinda a little removed? Yup. Into blonde dudes. Yuuuup

[–] coralof 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going to have to say Nagatoro Hayase. I'm a sucker for romance and rom-com.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Bojji! Rank of Kings

bojji

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kaiki best girl

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pikachu bc pokemon is the only anime I have watched to date

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nico Robin from One Piece, I relate to her the most. I also like Reki from Haibane Renmei and Lain from Serial Experiments Lain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Spike from Cowboy Bebop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nonon Jakuzure from Kill la Kill, the source of all my power fantasies that pertain to active marching band membership

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Rimuru from tensura

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Basically, anyone from Black Lagoon, but if I had to pick one, it would definitely be Revy.

[–] eruchitanda 1 points 1 year ago

Take a guess :3