Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

after decades of media slowly doing this in various small ways, things like castlevania and witcher slowly melting down season 2 onward, you get completely disenfranchised and tap out on all of it, and then occasionally get glimpses back beyond the veil like this and all you can do is say jesus christ what the fuck

A popular modern anime, Frieren, has demons who’re indisputably evil. Because of this, there’s a fair amount of discourse. From normal people who find it refreshing. To mentally ill “media literacy” types who can’t handle demons being bad. And what’s amazing is the show has those types built in. Often showing how naive and easily manipulated they are by creatures will ill intentions.

One day people will discover Mars Attacks.

Yeah it's pretty funny. At this point we're so used to writers subverting the evil creature trope that it has become refreshing when some media just hardcore doubles down on it. Demons in Frieren being like some fucked up predators who learned some mimicry trick that humans will stop fighting if you just fake the right emotions.

"Are we the baddies?" type of Stories can be great but modern writers often just suck at executing it and always treat it like this totally radical subversion when it has actually become pretty tired