I don’t agree with the character, but in this case the message is so blatant that it’s funny to quote him

Death of the Author just means that an author’s interpretation of their work doesn’t supersede a reader’s interpretation and that both can be equally valid.

WHAT PART OF THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER BEING PLAYED OVER THE CHARRED CORPSES OF THE VICTIMS OF A NUCLEAR ATTACK BY AMERICA CAN BE CONSTRUED AS COMPLIMENTARY OR “LOOKING AWESOME”?!?! YOU’RE NOT INTERPRETING OR ENGAGING WITH THE WORK OF FICTION IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU’RE HALLUCINATING AT BEST OR AT WORST ACTIVELY REWRITING THE NARRATIVE TO SUIT YOUR GHOULISH PREFERENCES! THE AUTHOR ISN’T DEAD, YOU MURDERED THE POOR FUCKER! AND FOR WHAT, SO YOUR POOR EGO ISN’T BRUISED AND YOU WON’T NEED TO REFLECT ON WHAT THE STORY IS TRYING TO TELL YOU ABOUT REAL LIFE? YOU’RE BASICALLY ADMITTING THAT SENSELESS MASS DEATH IS COOL YOU FUCKING MONSTER! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Sorry had to scream into the void for a bit, but that take in the comments was wild.

Anyway got this gem from r/curatedtumbler, which is basically what happens when I’m asked to explain what Chainsaw Man is about after a few drinks, and the reply is “it’s not that deep bro” - a lot of vindicated literature students out there today:

Our patent-pending DePressive algorithm (Working title) will comb through publicly available meta-data, looking for tell-tale signs of suicidal ideation (such as a general left-wing outlook on the world), allowing our talented team at marketing (outsourced) to better identify and target potential clients at mass scale with minimal cost.

Fujimoto knows writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards

I blew through all of Part 1 reading the collected volumes in about a week, but I was taking breaks and not doing everything in one sitting. 1 volume (8 chapters) took me about 2 hours to read on average I think? But I read slow so ymmv

Man Who Grew Up In Poverty Has Some Things To Say About How Society Is Organised - Das Kapital Chainsaw Man Part 1

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210 chapters as of today

Part 2 does take a while to get going, it probably reads better now in a binge rather than week to week

JJK is fun and flashy but it’s a bit thin when it comes to deeper themes, especially compared to Chainsaw man. It nails the vibes of how apocalyptic everything feels nowadays, but it doesn’t really do anything more with it than that. Between the two I’d recommend Chainsaw man, although to be fair to JJK it is really not that bad and you could do a lot worse

I think the only reason is they seem to be able to instantly get you 1k+ viewers. Which is the minimum to drive self-sustaining growth on sites like twitch.

You’re kinda underselling how important this is starting out and how hard it is to get your foot in the door as an indie.

Like sure, you can get play as a garage band in your local pub, but the record label’s still the fastest way to get on the radio and to sell albums. It’s all the same no matter the entertainment industry, only the industries with strong unions (which is pretty much just anything film adjacent in the West, due to the history of that industry) have strong worker protections.

Damn, Doki is a real one for that

Game was awful at launch and it took years of patches + an expansion to end up in a somewhat acceptable state

Yeaaaah… the pool of possible returning characters is uh… kinda small…

In this house, we stan Tatsuki Fujimoto.

Chainsawman is unironically this generations Evangelion. My man’s goated with the sauce, and he has decent politics (which, to be fair, every author his editor publishes has like baseline decent politics so I’m gonna credit Shuhei Lin for cultivating that environment)

If you’re looking for more of Director Oshiyama’s work, he’s also did an anime original magical girl show called Flip-Flappers, if you want to check out more of his animation

I think UC Gundam is weighed down too much by the weight of Charmuro to do much more than this show did.

To be fair, it kinda is a small miracle we got this show in the first place, and that the show succeeded in addressing Lalah’s fate by re-centering it on her place in the universe quite literally (even if that success came at the expense of, I dunno, a cohesive independent story)… I’ll take it.

Amuro VA

Probably keeping him around for Hathaway 2, which just got announced. Bleh. And I was looking forward to that movie too.

Guilty as charged

(I’m halfway thru ZZ now lol)

Damn, I’ve never been more owned