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It probably covers the whole prologue in one sitting, which I would agree is the best way to tell that part of the story.
Is there a version of the guy in the sickos shirt looking through the window that just devolves into maniacal laughter?
New trash edgelord magical girl show has arisen, and it *must* be consumed.
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Wow, serious "OC do not steal" energy.
For a while the Luffy voice actor was just a pair of larynx on the ground but with enough shaka shaka chicken has recovered somewhat
Almost literally just character expy with some later series jokes ran as up front character traits and removing Su because she'd be a bit problematic.
I am impressed.
Love Hina arguably codified the harem genre, so this isn't surprising.
Fair enough but like, there is a difference between something being like DBZ and something having Gaku the chimpanzee space alien.
It's amusingly overt. Well except the guy. He has to be cool because modern weebs are obv very cool.
I'd say mainstreamed more than codified. Harem dating sims like Tokimemo were a whole genre that got popular about 5-10 years before Love Hina came around.
Blatant cash grab or not, I'd be all for more of that experience. Imagine CSM in a theater, I'd be down for that.
Ah, a movie that had to have it's international title changed because an Irish satirist had a poor opinion of academia.
Looks like it's from Gulliver's Travels and was one joke name amongst many, that he couldn't have known would wind up the title of an unrelated film.
Oh, I'm pretty sure the guy who wrote about genuine baby back ribs knew exactly what he was calling academia with that name.
I thought it was just that it used a Spanish insult in its title that had to be removed?
So, the original title was Laputa: Castle in the Sky, which was going to be a non-starter for any area which had a non-nominal number of Spanish speakers for obvious reasons. And the reason Miyazaki used that in the title is all the fault of famed Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, and his famed novel/slam book, Gulliver's Travels, in which he made snide commentary on various groups.
Most of us are aware of the first travel to Lilliput, populated by people diminutive in form and mind, who were at war over which end one opens to eat a soft-boiled egg. (Yeah, that was a rather unsubtle dig at the English - Swift was Irish and wrote during the Famine, so he had reasons to mock them whenever he could, and did.) But the people starving his homeland were not his only target of ire and mockery, and thus in the third of the four travels, Gulliver finds himself upon the flying island of scholars engaged in esoteric research with no practical application, separated from the world, called Laputa.
Swift was an expert wordsmith and satirist, so he was making some pointed commentary on academia here, and his choice of name is very much part of that. Of course, it's unlikely that Miyazaki realized all that when he chose to use it as a reference, and likely didn't realize the issue until Disney began international localization and pointed out that prefixing a movie with a term for a woman of loose morals would not go over well.
And with that, I do believe this particular joke has been explained into the ground.
I'm glad you took the time to explain, because I learned something interesting, and none of the references you made were obvious to me.
Anyone else find it a little odd to see a big media push for a series about how shit the Japanese entertainment industry is?
I kinda remember a screenshot from the game Disco Elysium with an NPC explaining how corporations use criticisms of corporations as a marketing strategy.
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It probably sticks out because the villains are so ridiculously over the top. "Our class of people has the right to rape, maim, and torture anyone we want, and we'll unleash hell on everyone collectively if anyone resists." Tone it down a little!
And I mean HIGH. AS. FUCK.
This is somewhat addressed later in the season
Not every story has to go the Spider-Man "Great Power = Great Responsibility" route with the heroes. One is allowed to have their own goals and ambitions.
The old saying "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" comes to mind. It's a virtuous saying when the one saying it is in the few. It is evil when the one saying it is in the many. (I.E Lenord Nemoy saying it in Wrath of Khan is good. Lenord Nemoy saying it in Transformers: Dark of the Moon is evil.)
The MC doesn't really need to sacrifice anything. They could effortlessly stop people from being enslaved, but don't want to create unrealistic expectations of being rescued from slavers and rapists when other people hear about being saved.
If you walk by a dying man in the gutter and could save them by snapping your fingers, but you let them die, you're morally a monster. At the same time, if you save one person, that doesn't mean you need to go work in a hospital.
The alternative ends up being the Good Place morality system, where one gets condemned because you could always be doing more.
Don't get me wrong. If you can help people, it is good to do so. But it is the fact that it isn't a requirement to do so, and that there is a sacrifice involved, no matter how small, that makes the act Good.