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[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 198 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

He's offered a pardon for being a military deserter and this is his reply:

Miyazaki fucking hates war.

Fuck, the entire premise of "Howl's Moving Castle" is how war turns people into literal monsters!!!

Miyazaki famously was not present to accept an award for "Spirited Away" because of George W's war policies!!!

FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!!

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 87 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He also expressly stated his hatred for AI art.

Satire is truly dead, buried, dug up, smacked around a bit, shot in the face for good measure, buried, dug up again, had a shit taken on it, and buried upside-down.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 61 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's not satire. It's overt propaganda. Problem is, it's lazy propaganda! Do you think people who truly love Ghibli would be swayed by this? Who does this appeal to? It's nonsense.

That said: let them keep doing it. Allow them to continue shootinh themselves in the foot.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think OP meant irony. The irony that we're at a point where zionist/imperialist militaries are communicating on a nazi-owned platform using stolen AI art styles about war when the style was developed by someone vehemently against war/imperialism in their creations. The irony is palpable on each and every level.

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry! I replied like 2 minutes after waking up. Understood you completely. My bad!

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

No worries!

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Who does this appeal to?

The cheap seats. The know nothing public.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago

Who does this appeal to? It's nonsense.

the fake nerds of silicon valley of course

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

Well, Nazis do have a tendency of appropriating and mangling countless cultures to fill the void left from their humanity, I would say that extends to those who openly admit ethnic cleansing

[–] snf@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How does The Wind Rises fit into this?

Plot spoilersI've always been a bit puzzled at that one, given that the protagonist spends most of the storyline designing and building warplanes. He's apparently motivated purely by the love of flight, but consequences are never directly addressed, except for maybe at the end when he comments on how they all got destroyed. Is he wilfully oblivious? Is he on board with Japanese aggression? Is this a comment on the "just doing my job" people involved in any war effort?

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I've always viewed it as somewhere between "willfully oblivious", "on board with the war", and "his love of flight".

Warner Von Braun built the V2 (among others) rocket for the Nazis, but he always claimed it was because of his love of space flight. And being German he was utilizing the resources he had available to him. Now, that was also while he was being shielded from the majority of questions by the US government so who knows what the real truth was. IMO I believe that he was driven by his desire to see space travel, and the rest of the "bad parts" (slave labour and building terror weapons for the Nazis) could be explained with just good ol fashion racism that was en vouge in the 30s-70s.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 157 points 10 months ago

😂 all these Nazis thinking they'd be the protagonists in a Ghibli story.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 55 points 10 months ago

I'm not even that invested in Ghibli and that's radicalizing me

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is Gravestone of the Fireflies right? I couldn't finish it. Cried a river...

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Grave of the fireflies. I watch it whenever I need a good cry.

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Damn I should take one day to watch it. But right now I'm not having a great time to stomach it.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's fair. It hurts more when you know the writer's story. You have to go in expecting to be destroyed.

May I offer Ponyo as the alternative (movie I watch whenever I want to feel better?)

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My daughters watch Ponyo every other weekend 🤣. My confort series is Futurama.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My comfort series is Futurama!!!! When am I hanging out at your house lol

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd invite you but I'm probably very far away. I'm Uruguayan you see.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Love from Canada!

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah no. Don't watch it until you're sure you can stomach it, it WILL fuck you up

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago

Yes. Directed by Takahata who co founded Ghibli and is also very based iirc

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Of fucking course the IDF jumps on the Ghibli AI bandwagon. They can't allow themselves to be neutral when they have the opportunity to be on the wrong side of something

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

The creator of the style hates the use of AI images that mimic it's likeness and almost every bad person out there is "jumping on the bandwagon" for social media points. From the Trump admin, the IDF, and even Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

The tone deafness is...deafening. I have never been so convinced that people at large who consume this brainrot have no self-awareness, introspection, or critical thought.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Am I the only one with this problem? The images that the AI generates it doesn't resemble to Ghibli to me. They look like a hard try to "look like ghibli", but it falls in its own style.

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago

You're saying it has no soul in that is true.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago

You're correct, it looks odd and very obviously so

[–] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

They look really washed out, like they're tinted yellow.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They look like one kind of Ghibli character.

[–] Tonuka@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

That is so fucked up

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago
[–] mlg@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Even in their infinite insanity, the IDF version looks like a recap of them attacking the USS Liberty.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Making the IDF look like heroes or anything other than the monstrous savages that they are is an insult to humanity.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Lets do an IDF, CIA and RUAF collab episode next.

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A fascist is a thief. Fascist are the useful idiots of empire. Capitalism is a pyramid scheme filled with thieves. They will poison your fields and send you to the factory and feed you canned foods filled with poison. This is the world of the lowest common denominator and the longer you are on this ride, the sicker you will start to feel. It's like the first few hours of Disneyland is pretty nice, but once you realize you're not allowed to leave Disneyland and you have no money and you're stuck there for an eternity, well then it becomes your hell. It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all.

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Better a pig than a fascist

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Does the movie include mass indiscriminate bombing of a civilian area and using human sheilds in ground operations?

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

First one, yes. Second one, no.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

I cant blame them, if they depicted all of the GDFs crimes it would be rated R.

[–] qbus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The movie opens with the fire bombing of Tokyo and ends with children starving to death so no human Shields

[–] mishielda1234@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

!lemmysilver

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org -1 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Japanese animation studio, responsible for very popular animated movies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the Info.

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