Is it really fascist propaganda?
Is it really fascist propaganda?
John Adams
Levi Smith
Politically speaking, SnK mostly reads to me as a work that thoughtlessly used some militaristic iconography on the outset, which has been challenged and criticized (sometimes brilliantly, sometimes clumsily) as its writer has matured. While there's certainly reason to take umbrage with *how* he's confronted his own beliefs in the story and whether he's done enough, I find it extremely hard to deny that he hasn't interrogated and deeply explored the feelings that he started his story with vs. how he feels now. I really like Attack on Titan as horror, as a character drama, as a puzzlebox, and as a glimpse into its author's evolution as a person over time. If other people don't, I totally get it, but I don't agree at all that it's fascist propaganda.
Hudson Harris
Yes, that's why it's great.
Carter Reed
>ataque a los titanes
Andale andale
Thomas Hughes
No,it's reality
Zachary Price
It's not witty enough to make use of any idea or concept in anything other than the most superficial way possible or make any kind of argument, political or otherwise.
Dylan Smith
Elaborate.
Nathaniel Stewart
>being reasonable
>fascist
Hudson Perez
There is literally nothing wrong with Facism.
Hunter Gray
On what? I think I was pretty clear. This manga can't be fascist propaganda because it usually boils down an argument or a way of thinking into something extremely simple and digestible. SnK has no such thing. It doesn't mean anything. It only adopts some ideas in the most superficial sense. The militaristic aesthetics just looks cool; the protagonists motivation have no underlying philosophy beyond "ME WANT TO TRAVEL". There's nothing inherently wrong about that but we should keep that in mind lest we read too much into a stupid shonen manga. It's just a story that started as being about big scary man-eating monsters and devolved into complete garbage when they introduced that other nation beyond the walls.