t. 13 year old who took his first philosophy class today
Why do people pretend the philosophy Shonen covers is pretentious?
Austin Rivera
Josiah Williams
No clue what show you've watched/manga you've read, but Naruto is as a series has literally been about exploring the human condition since its very first episode/chapter. Nothing is poorly shoe-horned into the narrative in an attempt to make it deeper than it is. Shippuden then went even further and started to focus more on politicis, since the topicality of discrimination, gender roles, terrorism, caste systems etc. had already been addressed for 200 or so chapters. Sometimes I wonder what sort of show/manga you people followed. Naruto was ambiguous from start to finish.
The worst part is that this sort of criticism tends to be uttered by the same people who delude thesmevels into believing that Ikuhara contributed something to the debate surrounding gender identity. Naruto really seems to be too deep for the average anime watching retard.
Matthew Morales
Listen you shit. Here is a good hint.
PHILOSOPHY IS FOR WANKERS
William Allen
>phoneposting
>shonenfag
>retarded
lamo @ ur lyf3
Jayden Butler
Why is the word pretentious so overused?
Wyatt Butler
Bentley Ortiz
Because they offer this philosophy in manga for literal children. What this means is that they are not actually going to delve into the possibilities of the philosophy or how it can be conveyed because, again, this is for children. What is actually going to happen is that this so called "philosophy" is gonna be overwritten with "you might be right, but my kizuna with my nakama is stronger" or "I'm the main character and good is better than bad" and that's as far as it will ever go
Fucking Fate/Zero does Pain's "philosophy" dilemna with Kiritsugu better
David Watson
You know how everybody hates when anime does the whole "Schrodinger's Cat" thing because that's the go-to method for writers to pretend "look at how smart I am"?
It's like that
Andrew Lewis
>Why do people pretend the philosophy Shonen covers is pretentious?
Because their treatment of the topic is almost always shallow. Try reading some modern academic philosophy and compare it to the philosophizing in your average shounen manga.
Elijah White
>try reading scientific papers and compare it to an entertainment medium that gets most of its story-telling dynamic from comic strips
Ah yes, the appraoch of a scholar.