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My daughter is only on the first season somewhere, and admittedly I'm not watching it with her but the here and there I've watched didn't seem like I need to baseball slide into the living room and snatch the remote out of her hand but I was also not paying deep attention to it. She's in bed asleep now, so maybe tomorrow I'll talk to her about Attack on Titan and it having some stuff in it that maybe she doesn't need to watch until she can have a more critical eye.
The author is most probably a fascist, but I'd consider it far less problematic than lets say Narnia or Harry Potter. Again I havent finished it, but the enemies are humanised and shown with their own valid motivations. There is also no sexualization whatsoever (extremely rare in shonen) and a some well written female characters. The politics are mix of both anti establishment and deference to authority, but I wouldn't consider it fascist or think average people would take away that message. It's far more revolutionary than liberal leaning media.
Im a bit biased I guess cause its what got me into anime. Personally I think it's great your daughter feels comfortable watching it around you! In my experience kids are gonna watch what they want to watch (or what their friends are watching) anyway.
I agree. She's going to, and I'm not going to do the same shit my folks did with me. It did nothing but cause strife.
Ooh, please expand on this (if you want), I've heard a lot of Harry Potter takedowns, but not a lot about Narnia beyond "it's just really hamfisted Jesus allegory with a lot of underlying racism against muslims."
Yeah pretty much, I remember The Horse and His Boy being extremely orientalist, even as a kid that stood out. Other than that its basically a white saviour story where some british kids are the natural rulers over some lesser beings, it feels very much like a justification of colonialism.
Tbh I watched the movies and read the books as a kid, I've never revisited them since so I couldn't give you a more detailed response, I'm sure other people have done so though