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.”
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.”
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