Who is Granted Personhood? Frieren’s demons and the trouble with the “inherently evil race” trope (www.animefeminist.com)

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[-] lvxferre@ani.social 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I could go some extra length to say everything wrong with this text, and a bit more, but I'll TL;DR. The text fails to take into account that

different audiences forge different associations with the tropes contained within a work;
people from "random" countries (such as the author, or me) are not the target audience of those Japanese works.
there are a thousand themes to explore within fantasy. Social commentary is only one of them, and by no means obligatory.
every theme that you insert into a work dilutes the value of the other themes within it.

Once you do take those things into account, most of the text crumbles.

this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024

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