• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Gate is an anime about a portal to a fantasy world opening up in the middle of a city in japan.

    Its an enjoyable anime, but IIRC it was made for the sake of japanese military propaganda.

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      I had never in my life heard of GATE until a recent Mother’s Basement (anime YouTuber) Best Of review where he said it was good, and now here I am halfway through the series 10 years after it ended and it’s mentioned on Lemmy. Small world, huh?

      I’ve really enjoyed it, even if it is partially a nationalistic power fantasy. They get so many little details right (like checking the backblast area before firing a shoulder-fired rocket launcher) that it’s easy to overlook the weird cultural obsession with sexualizing 1000-year-old “children.”

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        How did they even work the old “1000 yr old jailbait” trope into military proponganda?

        Also there’s a joke about libertarians in there but I don’t have the energy for it

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        Goncharov is a beautifully-written 1973 crime drama directed by Martin Scorsese following a mob boss in Naples during the winter as his empire slowly falls. There is one problem with the film, and it’s that it doesn’t actually exist, and is a Tumblr meme coming from a bootleg shoe of the real movie Gomorrah (2008).