Unlisted video because I don’t know why? It wasn’t before. But this is by far one of the best critique videos of the show on the internet and very much worth your time.
Hear me out. Goblin slayer asks the question what if there were problems that effect poor and the government did nothing about? What would it look like for a person to dedicate their lives to solving it. Then they throw a bunch of edge lord stuff out that they have to walk back. Which I think they don’t really do a good enough job of. However they do way better than you can expect of an anime. In the end it is one of the few anime that takes a strong position against sexual violence I think and that just is too much for people to accept.
In the end it is one of the few anime that takes a strong position against sexual violence I think and that just is too much for people to accept.
By using it to titillate their audience? I disagree. It is pandering to people with a violent rape fetish. The manga is worse for it, featuring rape, the threat of rape, upskirts and damsels in distress every couple of chapters. It is very much intended to engage the hentai doujin audience in the production of fanworks for it (and they do).
I’ve seen that kind of song and dance before. The consumer consumed the product and doesn’t want to feel bad about what they consume, so after the fact excuses for the bad parts must be fabricated.
Yeah that definitely happens. I think people need to stop like moralising over consumer choices? I watched the show and will probably watch season 2, I enjoy certain aspects while also finding the show sus for these ones. It doesn’t mean I’m bad for anything. We can be critical of art while also consuming it.
People wrap too much of their identities up in things that they enjoy, “I enjoyed this therefore there is nothing wrong with it” is a frequent occurrence I see on reddit. Happens with videogames more than anything else though.
Is it? Did I just fail to catch the nuances because of lack of cultural context?
I cna for sure point to shows where it is guro or fan service stuff. Look at that one healer show or maiden abyss. If they wanted to go all in they could. It really looks like, to me, they tried and had mixed results. Which is wildly better than most anime that never tries. I know I am not the only person I have talked to to have this take. Is there like secret anti-korean vibes I am not picking up on or something?
I think you must have missed it? https://youtu.be/zVv4TJus-1c?t=442
Watch this from here up to 12:50, it goes through a bit of it piece by piece explaining. Honestly there’s probably better videos but it does a good enough job.
goblin slayer? that was the harry potter game, right?
We need a game, like red faction, where we play as a goblin and lead the goblin revolution in the wizardry world.
The virgin Goblin Slayer
The chad Dungeon Meshi
But according to the lore the goblins are not sapient and are more like a fungus, a fungus that needs sexual violence to reproduce and cackles all the while. This totally justifies a funny unlimited genocide
In that way they are obligate paracites like mosquitos, or a fantasy version of the aliens from aliens. Or I guess the most accurate analogy would be like a terrantula wasp which exists and who’s life cycle is so terrifying it made Darwin question his religion.
It’s a garbage excuse so creepy writers can have titillatingly presented sexual violence and a plot contrived justification for retributive genocide.
Hentai is an option. We can compare what that looks like. To me this just does seem to be edgelord stuff they didn’t pull off well. If it was ment to be fan service they could have just gone with it like in any other anime. No one would complain and the sales would be better. This is anime we are talking about here. The bar is very low but it is still intresting to see an attempt to clear it even if they don’t stick the landing.
