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Yeah, they could've just added that for the adap really still even if it wasn't, considering how slow it got. I think the significance could've been smthn like she chose the non utopian world over the one her sisters chose, but is she even a sister xD?
Pretty much, a neutered potential sexploitation flick that got a bit too high on something it should've been using as a camoflauge, it was destined for that greatness, but failed :"P

I had to delete 1 paragraph and told to not discuss the MAL score, I didn't even discuss it I just mentioned it to give a frame of reference. I'm more surprised that MAL has had more problems with the review than Anilist at the moment, Anilist is the one that usually has problems with minimal things in reviews, they don't delete the reviews but make them so only you can see them, it happened to some of my reviews, even my Kusuriya review suffered it for saying "rapechad" and I had to correct it to make it visible again. The rating it has is ridiculous, yes, the thing I compared it to, Nanatsu no Taizai Season 3, has a score of 6.47, Berserk 2016 has a 6.34 score, so, obviously, OPM S3's score is a psyop, there's no other possible explanation.

Yeah, aya's personality was weird, did she want to stay in the simulation with everyone returned to her city or was she a strong girlrawr who wanted encouraged the MC to be anti escapist, that was the worst contradiction. Really nothing was built in their relationship, no childhood backstory either. I mean not clarifying on her image being crossed out from the other 2 sisters says something about how much was cut out.

He managed to bridge ancient oriental 'feminism' (woman can be creepy rawr, don't abuse her ) with modern occidental feminism (waman (she/her/shim) can be stronger rawr, don't mess with her rawr). If his commentary on intent was any less sincere, he's have done well making a better version of those trashy "abused girl out to kill em all" sexploitation flicks judging from his career, could still pass it off as deeply thematic women empowerment thing :P

Oh boy, here we go again :'^P

Nah, I don't like Ruri Dragon that much, specially after it started going in circles, I hope KyoAni can do some of their magic to improve it. My OPM review was neutered yesterday btw, so it was deleted and I had to republish it, you can see the original in my blog posts section.

Seeing some people having a meltdown over KyoAni adapting a Jump manga the same day the OPM 3 sequel announcement dropped sure was a frantic day.

Well since I haven't seen it since I wanna say it was either a short or ova maybe a cancelled show or tester episode. It deff was a 3d new animation form like cell shaded or cgi. I've watched a lot of different anime and I've tried finding this before just never had any luck.

I'll take a peek to see, man something about these early 2000s experimental anime. I'll always love that kakurenbo short, I remember watching it on Halloween at night alone. Peeps keep pointing me toward elfen lied but I remember it being around the cgi/ cell shaded anime trend. It was dark and dirty like the line work the anime felt angsty. Deff had a lot of mature themes and blood

It might not be but in my brain it's right around that early 2000s time when it was popular. Do you remember the Kakurenbo Halloween special? On adult swim cause it came out same time that did and it looks very similar in style.

See I've tried watching galerians and idk if I could find the scenes that are like burned into my brain but I'll try another watch just incase. Been rewatching shigurui death frenzy damn it's good.

Yeah, thanks. I'll hit you up soon.

4. "The problem is that most people tend to view the world through an outdated lens akin to a bunch of nation states that act from a nationalist perspective, though having to make compromises with the "international community," when what we're really dealing with is more like Immanuel Wallerstein's World-systems theory, where the U.S. or "the west" is the core, siphoning off resources from the periphery (which includes Japan), and the homegrown bootlickers of the various "periphery nations" collaborate with the core. The international bankers collude with the banking elite in each country to shape entire markets and extract resources. The IMF was certainly doing a lot of that in Asia, and it wasn't just Japan. This is an abstract rendering of real corruption that is presented by the media as being a normal thing. This isn't exactly riveting for a conspiracy action film, so what we see is more visceral, with Ichihara and Togawa being one facet of Japanese "collaborators" who wreck their country at the behest of the international system."

4. According to Wallerstein, whom I may as well mention is a Jew, the Core nations cipher resources from the exploited periphery. Japan IS a core nation. It's one of the countries that benefits from the resource exploitation of the 3rd world. Patlabor 2 was right in that regard. Japan's peace and prosperity according to this theory of global development is coming at a cost that's invisible to the average person living in Japan.

5.

"Then it goes on a tangent about how America lost over 500,000 soldiers in the Vietnam War which was entirely orchestrated by American Jews in order to test out chemical weapons on Vietnamese civilians." I'd have to look at the actual line but it was somewhere around 50,000-60,000 (I believe that was his typo) American deaths. What I hate about criticism like this is how even kernels of truth are ignored if the line is at all exaggerated (and that's assuming the translation was accurate in the first place). Was the only reason to test chemicals? Certainly not. There were a lot of reasons for the Vietnam War, and one benefit of any war is for the financiers and weapon contractors. They certainly did saturate Vietnam with a lot of chemicals—1962-1971 saw 19 million gallons of chemicals sprayed in Vietnam, with at least 11 million gallons being Agent Orange (and we've all seen the awful ways in which this affected people and animals). The U.S. made a deal with Japan's Unit 731 to get their experimental data, so I'm sure there were elements within the military that were giddy about seeing these chemicals tested at a mass scale for warfare or general use. This was a time where counter-insurgency tactics could be perfected as well; for example, the Phoenix Program."

5. The anime says "gojuusanman gosen" or ５３万５千, where 万 is 10,000 and 千 is 1000. So, the anime says that America lost 535,000 soldiers in Vietnam. The old Youtube subs were right. Diskotek actually corrected this number in the Bluray subs to the actual number killed in Vietnam to clean up Angel Cop's mistake! This may be just a nitpick, but it shows the sloppiness we're working with here. I have no idea where Itano pulled this number from. It vastly exceeds killed, wounded, and captured combined. The spending 200 billion dollars part though is more or less accurate. 160 billion rounds to 200 billion, so he got the number essentially right there.

As for Agent Orange, I don't mean to sound like a Redditor, but it's not a chemical weapon. It was and is a plant killer that makes trees lose their leaves so you can see through the canopy. Its property as a plant killer was very well known, so there was zero reason to test it. In Angel Cop, Jews started the war specifically to test chemical weapons. However, Dow Chemical and Dupond were never major lobbyists for the war. In other words, we didn't invade Vietnam in order to drop Agent Orange. Those companies were opportunistic and sold a product to the government once the war had already started. This product had tragic side effects that they already knew about and just didn't care about since they didn't fully value Vietnamese as people. The US did make a deal with Unit 731 to gain research into chemical and biological weapons. However, this was largely to act as a MAD deterrent against the Soviet Union. There is no evidence that America tested either chemical or biological weapons in Vietnam. America did commit a LOT of atrocities in that war. This just wasn't one of them.

6. "So the /pol reference is a weak snub. From a rhetorical standpoint, the script is basically right, though possibly exaggerated a bit. The series is making a quick reference to one of the most recent long-running and bloody wars perpetrated by the U.S. It's not a history lesson detailing all the players and piecing together everything. Emphasizing the chemicals in Vietnam is simply to point out the horrible things the U.S. government was willing to do to Vietnam (affecting many children and people who had nothing to do with the war, but that is also the very nature of counter-insurgency, to wage a campaign of terror and bloodshed against the populace) and making a comparison of what they could potentially be willing to do to Japan (not to mention the unnecessary bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima)"

6. So here is another place we flat out disagree. If I thought Angel Cop was "basically right but just exaggerating a little", I wouldn't bother nitpicking so much. I think Angel Cop's views of geopolitics and history are fundamentally, objectively wrong. It even throws in a reference to the first Iraq War and how America gave Iraq the greenlight and then ignored the diplomatic cable stating Iraq's intention. This is some propaganda that was distributed in Leftist circles at the time, but ignores the fact that America didn't blast the shit out of Iraq the second they crossed the border. America was friendly with Iraq since they fought Iran. America also had bases in Kuwait and saw Kuwait as a strategic ally. Kuwait royally pissed off Iraq by refusing to slow down oil production. Iraq needed the price of oil to be higher than Kuwait did in order to function. Kuwait was also stealing Iraq's oil. You know that milkshake line from "There Will be Blood?". They were doing that. The US was ok with Iraq threatening Kuwait and trying to scare them into backing down, but the US didn't want Iraq to actually invade. When Iraq invaded, the US, USSR, and China all told Iraq to get the fuck out. They didn't. America sent Iraq many messages saying that "If you don't leave by this deadline in 7 months, we're going to attack you and force you out." Iraq chose to ignore every single warning. The US along with a massive coalition then attacked Iraq exactly when they said they were going to. Also, I'll just point out that it's highly debated whether or not the atomic bombings actually saved lives. I personally agree with you that they were unnecessary, but a lot of historians would say that Japan wouldn't have surrendered without them or if the US had merely given a visual demonstration a few dozen miles off the coast of Tokyo

7. "If you really wanted to make this piece interesting with references, then Fugu Plan would have been the thing to read about, as the Japanese government, before they were occupied, took these ideas from the Protocols seriously. And, anyway, it doesn't matter who wrote the Protocols or what your opinion is on that because you would have to be willfully ignorant to not notice that Jews, like any ethnic group under normal circumstances, also organize for their own interests. The Jews do so when it comes to Israel and the diaspora, they're quite good at it, are plenty powerful and have a lot of money to pour into their causes, and Christianity (zionism and appeal to the "chosen ones") and the U.S. MIC enable them. In all honesty, establishment monotheism (Atenism was also a staunch enemy of polytheists and sought to quash them, just as Christianity did), such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all means of centralizing power, taking over the world, enacting a new world order (more like New World Ordure), etc. Just read the Torah or bible carefully or consult a Jewish scholar, like Daniel Boyarin, or find some honest rabbis. The root for these two younger religions can be found in Judaism. A core idea of Judaism is to conquer the world, which ultimately leaves the gentiles to act as their slaves. It says it in their book (written by them and having nothing to do with an alleged god, so, of course, their god "chose" them), and rabbis will confirm it, so don't cry to me."


7. This is another point where our worldviews don't align. The Old Testament is absolutely barbaric in its morality and fully justifies genocide against the Canaanites and slavery. What it doesn't do is say anything about world domination. Judaism has never been huge on converting non-Jews and was pretty limited in its territorial expansion. If the Romans hadn't utterly crushed them and caused the diaspora, Israel would still likely be around the same size, not a Russia sized juggernaut with tens of millions of gentile slaves. The super religious, Middle Eastern Jews who wrote the Tanakh were not internationalists like Leon Trotsky who wanted a united world. They really weren't thinking very big. Also, I just wanted to point out that as a US Southerner I virulently hate Evangelical Christian Zionism and have a lot of criticisms for the Israeli government in general and the Likud in particular.

Anyways, I do like Angel Cop as entertainment. It's why I own it and have watched it so many times. I do NOT personally think that it deserves to be rated highly in terms of its quality. Given, my own ratings are entirely subjective and should be taken as such.

Hey, so a while ago you wrote a response to my low effort, goofy ass review of Angel Cop that was hilariously about 3 times longer than my actual review. This was brought to my attention by some rando and I didn't actually know if I should bother responding. However, I have time now and I'm bored, so I guess I will. Whether or not you respond back is completely up to you. I will quote the relevant sections and respond segment by segment since I think that would be easiest.

1. "The whining over the political messaging makes me role my eyes. During the Cold War it was always THE RUSSIANS! THE RUSSIANS! THE RUSSIANS! And, hell, it's still like that. Same for the Arabs and other Middle Easterners... it was always the Saudis, or the Iranians, or Afghanis, or whatever in older action films; let's not forget, these were not just casually chosen bad guys, but they served as reinforcement of a narrative for geopolitical aims, and all the most popular examples were from Hollywood. Guess who founded Hollywood and disproportionately acted as producers, writers, studio heads, etc., heavily influencing culture and shaping it in their own image.

But mention the you know whos at all, and suddenly the haughtiness and sanctimonious defense of "our values" comes to the forefront, and the hypocrisy is staggering. Anyone who knows anything about the real world and is honest knows the you know whos are heavily influential and overrepresented in foreign policy (neoconservatism and general leftism especially), banking and finance, media, NGOs, etc. In an ideal world, AC should realistically not be any more controversial than Red Dawn or those trashy Cannon films with Arab villains in terms of plot, but that's simply the nature of politics. Most "criticism" of this series is moral outrage, snide nitpicking, and taking potshots at the dub. I respect AC for having the balls to say something about the situation, and I can easily excuse the occasional info dump. The political content of AC should actually be more common in anime, given that the U.S. is using the outcome of WWII as an eternal excuse to occupy the Japanese and use them as a geopolitical token."

1. You make some good points here. Propaganda has indeed targeted other groups and is considered "normal". Red Dawn was written by a Jew who fervently hated ethnic Russians and is disgusting propaganda slop of the highest order. Yet that film was mainstream at one time. Dude, I hate Red Dawn as much as you do. I passionately despise that film. As for Jews being overrepresented in everything, you're not entirely wrong. Per capita they aren't quite as impressive as the Parsi, but still way above average representation per capita across many fields. Ironically, Angel Cop accuses Jews of first taking over America not through the media, but their control of Big Oil and the energy industry, which is actually where their representation is perhaps the weakest. I'm not sure what Itano was thinking here.

Do I hate Angel Cop because JEWZ are the bad guys? Not really. An anime can have a Jewish villain and be really good. A group of Jewish villains could also work in a story. Anyone can be a villain since there are decent people and despicable people in each sufficiently large group. The issue is how sloppy its execution is. Something I'll expand upon in the comments below. You seem to give this anime a lot of love simply for attempting to "name the Jew" but I don't think it deserves it. Instead of dick riding Angel Cop, I think you should hop on the Zeta train. It's a giant robot anime about how a group of former victims conspire to brutally slaughter their former oppressors while smugly acting like it's all just to prevent past atrocities from every being able to happen again. It was written in direct response to Israel's bombing of Lebanon in 1982 and Tomino wanted the villain to outright be an Israeli Zionist dude who wants to claim the whole Earth for Israel. Even though Sunrise forced him to tone it down a little, it is still explicitly Anti-Zionist for anyone paying remote attention. Oh yeah, and the use of mass gassing by the Titans against Spacenoids and those shots of piles of naked corpses wasn't an accident. Tomino does have autism, so he can only be so subtle.

2. "Also, cannot disagree more with litnerd's new (or old) review on this, though it's probably the most detailed criticism I've seen of this title (which isn't saying much). Most of his points are nitpicky, like the motives of corrupt bureaucrats selling out the country; they're going to benefit from it financially and will leave when/if it gets bad enough in Japan. Obviously, you can find wannabe or actual western and U.S. sellouts in any country. The plan was not to sterilize the Japanese either; that's just an assumed outcome because of radiation, not the purpose (though there are enough people who want to drastically reduce the population that it wouldn't be far off the mark). Capitalism already functions to make us distracted, fat, stupid, and sick, so it's not that much of a stretch, is it? While the script could have been fleshed out more, this seems obvious enough to not warrant a mention and seems like a request to be spoonfed."

2. So obviously we disagree here. The gag dub mentions that the politicians will benefit financially and then escape to a fancy beach when things get bad. The original script never implies this. The entire reason they allow the Jews to turn Japan into a nuclear waste dump is to avoid the shame of Japan becoming the 51st state. This is honestly kind of stupid. If Japan is already just a puppet of the US in this setting, why does it matter if they are the 51st state? In fact, wouldn't that actually give Japan more influence over America and be an upgrade from colony? I guess it's all about saving face, but this is still ridiculous. Also, what other purpose would the Jews have for turning Japan into a nuclear waste dump? Their motive would logically have to be the sterilization of the Japanese in order to remove them as a threat. Unless you think they're just doing it for the lulz. I also love how Da Jewz flat out buy the entire island of Hokkaido. The whole fucking thing! They went to hundreds of thousands of property owners and sent them shekels to sell their portion to Jewz Ltd and they all just accepted. Once again, Angel Cop is fun as schlock media, but I don't think it works as serious political drama. Given, I find value in the likes of Elfen Lied, so who am I to say?

3. "I don't especially care about what was actually going on in Japan when it comes to economic trends, but I get the impression he is just "anti-conspiracy," doesn't know much about this situation, and wants to sound like he researched it honestly. Instead, he'd rather use a gaslighting cope to hand wave everything away, like saying they're "scapegoating" America or Jews, which implies Japan only has themselves to blame, despite not existing in a vacuum and having had a close relationship to the U.S. ever since the end of WWII; they are effectively still occupied and many Japanese would love to root out the Americans. So to act like the U.S. or foreign entities couldn't have a hand in it at all strikes me as naive. It's a complex issue, as was stated, but unless you're going to do a thorough survey, it's hard to say it's solely the Japanese government's handling of the economy, especially when you consider how complicated the global economy is, as well as a vast array of domestic and international machinations. This isn't 1600s Japan. Plus, the main plot was in place even before the economic downturn, and it was a futuristic setup where Japan had the dominant economy, and there was a U.S. conspiracy against them, so while the bubble popping might have intensified certain aspects, the seeds were already there. This series began during the Heisei boom, not after the economic downturn. Japan was seen as a rising economic giant for many years. Clearly, the concept was based around this notion of Japan, then there had to be an enemy, and the U.S. was the only realistic choice for a country. Angel Cop was not conceived of after the economic downturn to fill in the blanks for why there was one, so what he wrote about economics strikes me as deceptive or misinformed, as if to suggest Itano (or Aikawa) is seething over the downturn and needed to find a "scapegoat." Rather, the U.S. was chosen as an enemy to prevent their rise, which the U.S. has done to many people, with Libya being a good example of one that was doing quite well before Washington wrecked them, but one can also point to the many color revolutions all around the world.

The bubble was created by excessive money printing, with the usually choosy banks allowing an excess of loans that they would have otherwise rejected. The Bank of Japan (their central bank) pressured smaller banks to follow suit. Japanese bankers are not stupid, even if the media will suggest they were greedy, arrogant, or naive. The bubble and its inevitable burst were meant to happen. I'm sure some people would respond with REEEEE conspiracy theory and why would they do this to their own country? Economics as a discipline is about making elaborate excuses for why money is "created" or rearranged on a domestic and international scale at the behest of oligarchs and transnationals. They make excuses for economic decisions that seem "bad," or "misguided," but what is "bad" is relative. What is bad for the masses is often good for certain interest groups and the wealthy. Richard Werner's Princes of the Yen book certainly suggests an international component, and a conspiracy amongst a small selection of Japanese banking elite and global elites."

3. Here is another point where our world views are quite different. You're right, I do blame Japanese bankers and the Japanese government entirely for the bubble. I think they accomplished that fuck up alone without the help of Jewish Americans giving bad financial advice. Now if we were talking about 1990s Russia...that's a bit different. American economic advisors (many of which were Jewish) did give terrible advice that contributed significantly to Russia falling on its face and being an economic basket case for over a decade. Much like 1980s Japan, China is also fucking up right now with their absurd real estate bubble and they have only the CCP to blame. I do also believe that the story wasn't planned out from the beginning. The first 3 episodes plant zero seeds suggesting a grand foreign conspiracy and neither does the short-lived manga. Then suddenly in episode 4, the anime outright drops the first Jew bomb. "Isn't that power company actually controlled by the Jews?!" It wasn't planting seeds, it was spoiling the ending with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Episode 4 was made in 1994. Episode 3 was made in 1989 and early 1990 before the bubble burst. The Angel Cop Bluray blames the popularity of anti-Semitic conspiracy books in the immediate aftermath of the bubble bursting (including Protocols) for the direction the series went. This may be wrong and it's just those damn Jews that own Discotek making up excuses. Note: I have no idea whether or not any Jews actually work at Diskotek. Anyways, it is possible that the twist reveal was planned all along, but only Itano himself could answer that. I have yet to see any convincing evidence that this was planned prior to Episode 4.

More to follow. This post is long enough

Hey there, just had a look at your 'Anime in need of subs!' interest stack after watching Tosca. Somebody in the comments section of the director's official upload of the short has left a translation of the intertitles, тоска is the Russian word for melancholy, which I've just learnt through this short :)

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