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Frieren is so good when you don't have some racist prick in your ear screaming about how demons are libs and minorities
(hexbear.net)
Japanese Frieren fans ask themselves what Himmel would do.
American Frieren fans ask themselves what Himler would do
Americans and not applying their internalized protestant worldview onto other cultures challenge: impossible.
This is specifically in context to applying Christian guilt-projection-scapegoat mythological monster that is known as the "demon" onto the Korean yo-gwae (more familiarly known to westerners by the Chinese word Yao-guai or the Japanese wore Yokai)
idk, I've seen a lot of media that doesn't take the stance that Yokai need to be eradicated, and the movie itself kind of seems to be moving in the direction of empathizing with the Yo-gwae and that the whole "zeal to eradicate these hideous monsters" thing is a bit troublesome (is that not the point of Rumi discarding "Takedown"?), but then swerves back when this apparently only applies to exactly one of them, while the entire remainder of the Yo-gwae horde needs to be purged with violence. And it doesn't apply to Rumi herself of course, but she's mixed and the cosmological meaning of that isn't clear to me.
Like, if it's all just on Gwi-Ma and a lot of his minions are really victims, then having the hunters burn through a living wave of them like a transition effect while making Buffy quips and never really presenting the audience with the significance of that is a creative choice that I have trouble understanding.
breaking out of this loop is literally what one of the touhou official manga is about
Which one? I haven't kept up for... a decade or so now.
forbidden scrollery. the human village's kosuzu mootori who runs a book rental and can read youkai books slowly becomes more interested in youkai over time.