- The Japanese government just released a 90 page study on robot anime. Sadly, it’s only available in Japanese. What a unique use of government funds!
- Mefloraine is writing and illustrating a book about witches and releasing it serially on Tumblr. I think it’s really cool, both the story and the execution.
- How come nobody told me about Nathan Meunier, a guy who is basically doing for games journalism what I want to do for fandom journalism? I just bought his guide to freelance games journalism, Up Up Down Down Left Write.
- Cool resource for cosplayers: a blog that breaks down how to recreate popular anime character’s outfits.
- Nelson thinks it might be time for us to change how we define anime, arguing that Legend of Korra just might be an American anime. I believe fandom is always converging, so I am all for this.
- I’ve never talked about Nerdfighter fandom on my blog because I’ve always been a little confused about it. But the reviews are in, and Nerdfighters say Gavia’s 101 on the fandom is spot-on.
- PBS Idea Channel has done it again! Are the titans from Attack On Titan evil?
(Photoshop originally by Plasterbrain [site down] on Tumblr.)
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I don’t mean to beg the question, but I think the argument that Titans are evil has a fundamental flaw.
First, yes, I agree with his argument that they are not NECESSARILY evil. But in the context of the story, can they be argued that they are undeniably evil?
The Titans are definitely the antagonist, which is the “evil” in the story. Take Death Note as an example. Light is the protagonist and L is the antagonist. Within the context of the story, L is the “evil” character but Light is the one undoubtedly doing evil.
But not to just beat down on semantics, he had several interesting points which I haven’t thought of before. Most interesting to me is that Titans are compared with animals, because they are very much animals. The Female Titan, for example, is an anomoly, but it can be viewed as the “King” or “Leader” of all the other Titans. They literally flock to her when she yells out to eat her. That’s an instinct based on a mere scream. There was no complex instructions given to the Titans.
Maybe there’s more to Hajime Isayama’s comic than meets the eye. He himself posed that he created the comic sort of “anti-bully,” was it? That the underdogs, the humans, are placed against this unbeatable force in the Titans, which is perhaps transparent of his own insecurities.
Titans are people who just don’t know any better and you can’t always define them properly as “good” or “evil.” Isayama once said he’s based them off of drunk people he saw at a bar and also an experience where a customer was angry with him.
Thanks for the plug! ;)