corin3rd.bsky.social

So In response to this, I've been seeing some people doing a thing I've seen for years - Smugly going "Um, Actually, GL is fascist because Spiral Power is the fascist desire for willpower to overcome material reality!" ...You mean the guys who then made Kill La Kill are fascist? 1/x

It's not easy. You'll need a method to your madness, because in a straight fight you'll lose. You'll need other people as well, and to combine your strength with them. And you will lose people close to you, and it will hurt. And just because you win, that doesn't mean you have all the answers. 15/x

So In response to this, I've been seeing some people doing a thing I've seen for years - Smugly going "Um, Actually, GL is fascist because Spiral Power is the fascist desire for willpower to overcome material reality!" ...You mean the guys who then made Kill La Kill are fascist? 1/x

It's not wrong to focus on survival. To try & protect only the people who you can. Despite everything, there is a recognition that the people who do that aren't acting out on malice, but a cruel algebra of necessity. What else is there to do, when change is impossible? ...But what if it's not? 13/x

So In response to this, I've been seeing some people doing a thing I've seen for years - Smugly going "Um, Actually, GL is fascist because Spiral Power is the fascist desire for willpower to overcome material reality!" ...You mean the guys who then made Kill La Kill are fascist? 1/x

Gurren Lagann is, at its core, a story about people being told constantly that better things can't happen, that the death and suffering of the world they live in is the best of all possible worlds. To radically change this is treated as reckless and foolish. 11/x

So In response to this, I've been seeing some people doing a thing I've seen for years - Smugly going "Um, Actually, GL is fascist because Spiral Power is the fascist desire for willpower to overcome material reality!" ...You mean the guys who then made Kill La Kill are fascist? 1/x

No matter how I look at it... I cannot see it, unless I wilfully butchered Umberto Eco's Ur Fascism to force it to fit a point. This isn't saying GL is perfect - there's a solid argument that a different resolution to the Spiral Nemesis might ease some elements. But that the show is Fash? Nah. 9/x

So In response to this, I've been seeing some people doing a thing I've seen for years - Smugly going "Um, Actually, GL is fascist because Spiral Power is the fascist desire for willpower to overcome material reality!" ...You mean the guys who then made Kill La Kill are fascist? 1/x

If spiral power is fascisms belief willpower can overcome material realities, why is Kamina, the most macho person in the show, Dai Gurrens inspiration, Someone who dies heroically in a way fascists are obsessed with also the person with the lowest spiral power in the series? 7/x

So In response to this, I've been seeing some people doing a thing I've seen for years - Smugly going "Um, Actually, GL is fascist because Spiral Power is the fascist desire for willpower to overcome material reality!" ...You mean the guys who then made Kill La Kill are fascist? 1/x

Damn, for a bunch of Fascists, Kazuki Nakashima, Masahiko Otsuda, and everyone else who worked on both GL and KlK sure did manage to walk ass backwards into making a show that seems real critical of authoritarian, traditionalist, hierarchical power structures. Or maybe like. That read is wrong? 5/x

So In response to this, I've been seeing some people doing a thing I've seen for years - Smugly going "Um, Actually, GL is fascist because Spiral Power is the fascist desire for willpower to overcome material reality!" ...You mean the guys who then made Kill La Kill are fascist? 1/x

The show that has an episode where our protagonists try to work inside the system to try to take it down, only for Mako to start supporting the system because it now benefits her? Where all the one-star uniform holders are a faceless mass, surrendering their personhood to be tools of the State?3/x

So In response to this, I've been seeing some people doing a thing I've seen for years - Smugly going "Um, Actually, GL is fascist because Spiral Power is the fascist desire for willpower to overcome material reality!" ...You mean the guys who then made Kill La Kill are fascist? 1/x