Honestly, 9/11 might have created at least 5 different domino effects, some overlapping, considering it is explicitly said to inspire both Nier and Kamen Rider Ryuki, which by corollary also means 9/11 leads to Gundam 00 and Pluto minimum...and also Madoka's "Magical Girl's are just like Al Queda" comment...honestly even more than just "here's an active anxiety threat that manifests within Survival-Kei fiction (...which KR Ryuki ALSO is somehow), the specific nature for some auteurs instead of just National Trauma or despair, had a weird effect of "Ok, how can we trust ANY form of Justice if both USA AND Osama say they're in the right" -both Yoko Taro and Gen Urobuchi. Also now Garo's Victory Road as a Battle Royale sub-title makes TONS of sense. Just it's own mini-water shed moment, good job America. More on the disaster as voyeurism deal, there's such an setting framework that Disaster strikes MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREA as the hook...even when the actual event seems to reference ironically a poorer/less-developed/geo-graphically precarious location, it almost makes me wanna call it "disaster gentrification", where yeah the Fetishistic angle comes from "wow, at least this is fictiional, could you imagine [multiple massive structural damage] to New York/Chicago/San Francisco instead of [any fly over state's capital]". There's also the juxtaposition of both it's a GLOBAL THREAT, but also America WILL have the answer to fight back (somehow...as ass-pulled as it ever is). Actuall back to Japan's disaster's also reflecting back to international intervention, of all things, it reminds me most of Killer7's massive political sub-plot of Japan being literally under terrorist threat to incite a full nuking of Japan...and America being completely apathetic to helping since Japan has "out-lived it's usefulness". The entire treatment at least from Dedede seems almost too easily colonial and exploitative, almost vulture-like where "Japan just suffered one of the worst losses of life as well as society's collapse....but how can WE benefit from it????" I'm still hesitant for the immediate Otaku-Escapist defense despite also completely shaking off a vid on Saito Tamaki's complete caricature of Otaku infantalization...even discounting Western Ethics of Will and granting validation to the struggles of a lost generation, the complete enabling of Escapism as is, instead comes off Culturally-Relatvistic but after at least a full generation cycle of even SAO both progenating the desire of escape, beyond kinda erasing the entire Western Publishing/Licensing ecosystem that spawns "normie-perspectives", "Isekai as a genre" can't get any good full critiques if it immediately folds under basic duress, Feminist, Abilist, self-masculine reflective, etc, if there's always a knee-jerk reaction to all response - warranted or not via algorithmic/publisher saturation etc - I can't see it as itself just another form of sub-cultural voyeurism to project our own Western push-pull values honestly.
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Honestly, 9/11 might have created at least 5 different domino effects, some overlapping, considering it is explicitly said to inspire both Nier and Kamen Rider Ryuki, which by corollary also means 9/11 leads to Gundam 00 and Pluto minimum...and also Madoka's "Magical Girl's are just like Al Queda" comment...honestly even more than just "here's an active anxiety threat that manifests within Survival-Kei fiction (...which KR Ryuki ALSO is somehow), the specific nature for some auteurs instead of just National Trauma or despair, had a weird effect of "Ok, how can we trust ANY form of Justice if both USA AND Osama say they're in the right" -both Yoko Taro and Gen Urobuchi. Also now Garo's Victory Road as a Battle Royale sub-title makes TONS of sense. Just it's own mini-water shed moment, good job America.
More on the disaster as voyeurism deal, there's such an setting framework that Disaster strikes MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREA as the hook...even when the actual event seems to reference ironically a poorer/less-developed/geo-graphically precarious location, it almost makes me wanna call it "disaster gentrification", where yeah the Fetishistic angle comes from "wow, at least this is fictiional, could you imagine [multiple massive structural damage] to New York/Chicago/San Francisco instead of [any fly over state's capital]". There's also the juxtaposition of both it's a GLOBAL THREAT, but also America WILL have the answer to fight back (somehow...as ass-pulled as it ever is).
Actuall back to Japan's disaster's also reflecting back to international intervention, of all things, it reminds me most of Killer7's massive political sub-plot of Japan being literally under terrorist threat to incite a full nuking of Japan...and America being completely apathetic to helping since Japan has "out-lived it's usefulness". The entire treatment at least from Dedede seems almost too easily colonial and exploitative, almost vulture-like where "Japan just suffered one of the worst losses of life as well as society's collapse....but how can WE benefit from it????"
I'm still hesitant for the immediate Otaku-Escapist defense despite also completely shaking off a vid on Saito Tamaki's complete caricature of Otaku infantalization...even discounting Western Ethics of Will and granting validation to the struggles of a lost generation, the complete enabling of Escapism as is, instead comes off Culturally-Relatvistic but after at least a full generation cycle of even SAO both progenating the desire of escape, beyond kinda erasing the entire Western Publishing/Licensing ecosystem that spawns "normie-perspectives", "Isekai as a genre" can't get any good full critiques if it immediately folds under basic duress, Feminist, Abilist, self-masculine reflective, etc, if there's always a knee-jerk reaction to all response - warranted or not via algorithmic/publisher saturation etc - I can't see it as itself just another form of sub-cultural voyeurism to project our own Western push-pull values honestly.
Japan Sinks 3: Japan Sinks Even Further
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Is this a natural disaster episode? 😅
Yes!
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