It's al kinda....meaningless, really. It's people obsessed with fighting bigots and grifters who will never actually care, while never really engaging with art itself beyond a surface level. Just circular fighting without point. Like, guys, just read Ichi the Witch, please. You'll thank me.

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It's all an extension of the larger narrative surrounding JP media in leftist spaces. That anime and manga is at least semi-affiliated with the online-right, and thus the goal of the culture war is to eliminate them. The fiction cannot just be fiction, it must be the battleground.

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You can really see this with Chainsaw Man in specific, where the entire conversation pretty much turned into a debate on how it was somehow a critique of the genre and provably Not Like Those Other Girls - because referring to it *as* a battle manga seemed equivalent to concession.

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See, what people don't understand is that the reason why this is is because a sizeable chuck of people need some way to create a battle manga which won't develop a conservative fanbase. They failed with One Piece, and now they're constantly trying to find The One which won't attract the chuds.

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Art now can only exist in the present, and the present is insanely gay so art can never be "cool" unless its apolitical or its politics are too difficult to fit into a video essay.

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