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what is the point of making the viewer angry at the world if the characters do nothing?
The bourgeoisie push stories like this to get people used to it as inevitable, so you feel numb instead of mad.
The numbmess of the western working class is what has helped them keep revolution at bay
I never understood the hype about this show. I watched it purely for Sawano soundtrack, and while Mizuki - Avid was an amazing ED, the show isn't even worth watching for Sawano.
How did not a single person think "hmm maybe we shouldn't be feeding new brains to the Skynet eating brains to expand"? Even in the most fascist regime, at least military leadership tries to know its enemy. It's just a full cour of watching mechanical zombies being fed free new bodies because racism?
That premise is so idiotic I couldn't take it seriously at all. We're supposed to feel sad for the main characters when they die, but there's no build up, just "okay please become zombie food now" and then they die.
In the end, when the main characters manage to flee the country, the story becomes somewhat more interesting. In season 2 we see the geopolitics between the countries, the world map of how far the mecha-zombies have gotten, and how the fascist regime collapses. But it doesn't make up for how shit season 1 was.
Even in the most fascist regime, at least military leadership tries to know its enemy
You know what, I actually found that part to be believable. Look at western leadership today when it comes to Ukraine and Yemen in particular. Nobody is taking a sober step back to say "maybe we should try something else". I think something similar applies to a lot of our foreign policy. Our leaders do not wish to engage in the material world. So to me this was actually a good parallel with where we're at. In the show the military leadership does appear to know the truth but they are deferential to political leadership that is ignoring it.
Nobody is taking a sober step back to say "maybe we should try something else".
This is different, because there is no existential threat to the west and they know it. In the show, the survival of the human race in its entirety is at stake. In the real world, there aren't any self-replicating robot zombies of destruction expanding from those on the frontline dying.
Our leaders do not wish to engage in the material world. So to me this was actually a good parallel with where we're at.
The moment any NATO intel shows there is a real counter-threat it will be taken seriously. Hell, even if there isn't, it's used as an excuse to respond more harshly to something that doesn't even exist.
I never understood the hype about this show.
It's very "off brand IBO" at an initial glance. Too bad that it couldn't even live up to that. I don't even remember the spider robots being too interesting either.