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Right but this is partly motivated by how villains are always cooler than protagonists so the only way to have cool protagonists is to have them be villains first and then become good
That's pretty much how the Buu saga plays out.
Symphogear, uh, villains turned protagonists? You were unleashing swarms of death monsters onto packed cities. At best, you were apathetic to mass murder.
And then there's Terror in Resonance.
I liked the most the Cabba bit. Trunks and Bra were raised human, but Cabba is the Saiyan heir on the start of the road that he took, and he made his business to make sure that Cabba ends up becoming a better man that he is.
Almost certainly not.
He wants to perish to the Stone Bracelet because if he does it will mean he finally learned what "malice" is and also felt it himself. Considering everything we know about demons no wonder Frieren saw these memories and immediately said there was no chance of victory. Because victory requires a demon to understand and feel emotion, something bordering on the impossible if it's not just flat out impossible.
Are you out of your gaddam mi- *deep breaths* A lot of people who have conflicting worldviews are not enemies at all. Like two engineers disagreeing over a detail of their plans. A mother not understanding why her child is upset. Two friends arguing over which sports team is more likely to win the cup. Or you and me, right now. These are not enemies, we are not foes (at least I hope not). We may be temporarily antagonists, but we are not really enemies.
Enmity, real enmity, like "fight-to-the-death" enmity, happens not when there is a conflicting worldview, aka a misunderstanding, or different childhood circumstances, as the animes claim, but when the opposing parties have mutually-exclusive fundamental goals. Think "person who wants to own slaves" and "people who don't want to be slaves". Or, well, Light and L/Mellow/Near in Death Note. People who can't just eventually become friends if external circumstances change. Internally, if they change those fundamental goals, then maybe, but changing a fundamental goal requires that you have at least one other fundamental goal that wants that change, and therefore there was a part of them that wasn't an enemy.
I don't think you're doing this on purpose, but by conflating "people with mutually exclusive interests" and "people who aren't on the same conceptual page", you're giving oppressed/abused people the false hope that maybe if they just talked to their oppressors/abusers just right, they'd get the latter to stop oppressing/abusing them. This... historically hasn't worked.
Sorry, Bulma thought Vegeta was cute and invited him to move in with her out of nowhere, so he got automatically forgiven for everything before that point.
tbf Bulma is like one of those women who write letters to serial killers in prison
I think maybe a lot of people don’t define “enemy” quite as rigidly as you are here and that’s where the disconnect in this conversation is happening.
I'm not sure how people arrive at fundamentally opposed goals without having conflicting worldviews. I don't think you can have the one without the other, and your goals will not change unless your worldview does.
Of course I do not intend to give oppressed folk false hope, but I have to believe people can change. How you go about getting people to change is definitely not as simple as talking to them the right way, but if you believe people are incapable of change, then what options are left to you for dealing with the conflict between you?
To be fair wasn't that anime filler?
I am just a bit overwhelmed at the moment.
KnM's first episode is a roller coaster.
Yes that's exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about, dungeon meshi rules
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Now I want to read this but I hate anime/manga with depictions of delicious food because it makes me constantly hungry while watching/reading it.
I believe the most popular response to that question, historically, has been "you simply unexist all of the wrong people".
In any case, I've been starting (and catching up) on some manga this past week, some very good, some just kind of okay.
Dress-up darling is really wholesome and very neat. These two teenage morons are at very severe risk of dying of mutual thirst before this manga ends, but also the sheer joy people put into their passions in here is always good to read.
Otoyomegatari is very good. An uncommon choice of subject matter (the peoples of the steppes and their life), and feels so much like someone very interested in the cultures involved trying their best to represent them. Thorough recommend. And christ, the art. How does the artist's hand not fall off after some of these pages. Entire two page spreads of incredibly detailed sewn patterns has to be an intentional flex.
The Holy Grail of Eris is also quite good. Drama centered around a relatively sheltered noble girl trying to save her family and getting into some deep shit about it, and a ghost linked to her that is a lady who is basically the exact opposite ot her in terms of nobility.
On the more "eh" side, a friend recommended Iruma-kun, and while it's not actually bad, and it's quite frequently funny, and it has a lot of lovable characters, the sheer blatantness of the wish fulfillment kinda kicks me out of the story sometimes? Like, I have nothing against a little wish fulfillment, I read Riso no Himo Seikatsu, but there's kind of a point of "every girl falls for the main character and everything ends up going his way" that takes you a bit out of the whole thing and Iruma hits that like thirty chapters in and just keeps sprinting on.
I fucking love that last order is basically all tournament arc. Except really good tournament arc. Space karate! Sechs (who's technically trans and it's great!). Vampires! Zekka!
Sadly Mars Chronicle is pretty awful currently. It started with a flashback, then advanced the timeline set up a bunch of interesting stuff...
And has been in flashback ever since, most of it focusing on child Erica who is literally the worst. Glad the mangaka is having fun, I guess, but also arrrrrrrrrrgh
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Madness!
Anyways I've had literally 0 time to fit in any Anime for a long time but I'm finally starting up Demon Slayer. I like it so far. Only up to Episode 5 and liking it so far.
This will happen, but power through Friend. Not only is the series often deeply funny, it's got an incredibly well realized world - our protagonists win through actually understanding monster biology and the issues it would have, the reason there's a fucking crazy dungeon actually makes sense...
Just go! Read it! It's so good!
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