#but at the end of the day it's attracted a massive rightwing fanbase who view it as legitimizing their beliefs

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Attack on Titan fan jumpscare... it's so fascinating to analyze its fandom and cultural impact because it has left its creative mark on the seinen genre permanently for better or worse. I think it's a work created with good intentions, but Isayama lacked a holistic understanding of the historical context and rhetoric around the issue he wanted to address. From what I've seen and heard, it ends more or less on a sobering political note, utilizing tragedy to illustrate how fascist regimes fester and establish themselves to go on to abuse and oppress generations of innocent people. How well that commentary was executed, how much tact important subject matter was handled with, and the amount of self-interrogation the writer did of his own unconscious political leanings is a different story, which is where I suppose all the potential for misreadings took root. I'm skeptical of it having *explicit* pro-fascist subtext, though

i'm not generally inclined to take it in good faith, considering what i've seen jewish people say about its usage of holocaust imagery and what I've also heard about the author's views on japan's colonization of korea

#narrates #iirc the author has claimed to admire one of the worst war generals of imperial japan who played a big part in korean subjugation #maybe it was created with good intentions. idk. ive never engaged with it and I don't want to #but at the end of the day it's attracted a massive rightwing fanbase who view it as legitimizing their beliefs #and as far as I can tell the author has never dissuaded that. so I'm always going to view it with suspicion