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My favorite tags include Slice of Life and psychological horror! 🌈
I admit, differentiating between one another isnt within my skillset :(
Youjo Senki? I need to think of Dies Irae too but that's the other side
I recommend Higurashi When They Cry! It's a wholesome show about a group of young friends that hang out together!
Since ur only specifying Anime Songs of 2023, here's my contender:
[Not meet doubt] Saori Hayami, Danmachi
But in terms of 'propagating' a semi-controversial idea, I'd say there's 86, which is a great work by asato asato and illustrations by our god and savior shirabii. There's a lot about racism, classicism, war bad, dehumanization and how child soldiers were the solution to our problem.
Edward snowden even commented on it.
Even anime is contemplating how we shift the burdens of war.
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1488990328073904129
There's also a guy in the comments of the post who says Evangelion did that 1960 already which isnt wrong lol.
Vinland Saga tries to tell a very similar premise, how Violence merely leads to more violence. Unlike many other japanese works that take cool semi-philosophical subjects, it actually delves into it and proposes not one but two possible solutions that clash and create a conflict.
Every other season we got one of those gorgeous CGDCT anime that advocate a certain niche topic, I'm really glad for those.
Yama no Susume advocates the beauties of climbing mountains
Yuru Camp does the same with camping
Current season has Pon no Michi, which is trying to get Mahjong back to the younger generation, it's also co-hosted by Yostar Games who own the online gacha game MahjongSoul, there was a whole episode about it... questionable, but hey they paid for it, getting their game out there also shows that playing mahjong isnt a thing exclusive for parlors, everyone can do it from everywhere!
Houkago Teibou Nisshi brought us Fishing!
Houkago Saikoro Club was doing a lot for boardgames!
Koisuru Asteroid was big on stargazing, very much reminded me of an old Visual Novel I played 'A Sky full of Stars', good game.
There is also Gils und Panzer which tells you about the Glory and Greatness of TANKS!
I cant think of an anime whose sole purpose was to be a form of propaganda in a ideologal or political way, but the topic reminds me of this one:
Where Niigata thought anime was to blame for the increase of bread consumption and decrease in rice consumption due to the trope of running to school with a slice of toast, so they combated that with this short:
https://youtu.be/6HIzRymaoOU?si=MO8_LkmnZ-odyobA
https://youtu.be/7tHwfcSwbzw?si=SPbzAADna2jmvajF
This is straight up attempting to convey a message.
Oh no I cant drink with my age of 13
Ye TW is still on pretty good terms with japan, home sweet home.
Taiwan used to be under japanese rule, and much of their cultural influence still lingers, including anime. Taiwan coined the term 'japanophile' and excessive manga/anime consumption is a genuine issue that many teenagers and anything before and after struggle with, something the government and schools are attempting to tackle.
Within the context of Taiwan and manga/comics I can only recommend Fang tzu-hsu's 'Reading Comic Books Critically'.A great read that delves into the origins and influences and does some experiments.
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1141770
Youko Tama of Sengoku Youko has four ears confirmed and even talked about it in one episode as being a confusing matter, but they resolved it within the same conversation.
There are also many Arknights characters, many that appear in the show do too, have 2 pairs of ears, even having ear covers for their human ears instead of their nekomimi, which has gotta be the weirdest shit considering Jessica uses a handgun and cat ears are arguably better than human ears.
Maybe less women working within the industry, but if they were to take the animes under investigation they would quickly find very different results :}
No
I extend my wish to everyone else.
A brain
Well that's gonna be worht keeping an eye on.
Haine, aka hiruko no mikoto
Yanpasunpasun
Tbh Al isnt exactly donning armor as uch as he is the armor.