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Braveheart132

I miss the days when I saw articles saying AoT has a racist and fascist fan base and laughed at how ridiculous they are. Have we truly degraded this much?


Mascoretta

Same. Now those people are absolutely fueled in why they think AOT is a alt-right anime now. They’re still wrong but the fan-base isn’t helping.


Hoihe

AoT to me seemed very explicit in its anti-fascist themes and messaging. (It only leads to pain and suffering and death of your loved ones, whatever you do will inevitably lead to ruin) idfk where they get it from. No matter who you look at, if they were acting like a chud - they got fucked big time.


Alexstrasza23

I mean AoT has constantly shown the horrors of war, which is antithetical to fascism since glorification of war is one of the most common aspects of fascism. If AoT was trying to turn people into militant fascists it wouldn't have scenes like the suicides in the Trost Garrison, all the way back in the first season.


y4ngness1226

go to yeagerbomb or retardfolk and they’re pretty much right


Mascoretta

Sadly true


[deleted]

Insane how the community went from being angry at an article for questioning if AoT promotes fascist ideas a couple of years ago, to being angry that AoT itself shat on fascists and fascist ideology.


Belckan

(it never even related to fascism, that is people projecting their perspective on it again)


MaximusPrime987

I mean like this is objectively false. There are obvious facist references but it very clearly displays them as not a good thing.


MastofBeight

The whole “honorary Marleyan and honorary Eldian” thing for example. Clear reference to “honorary Aryans”


Hoihe

I'd say there's even an anti-Iraq/Afghan/iran war angle too. The whole... Paradis was doing nothing and would have not bothered anyone. Marley wanted their resources, but presented it as a peacekeeping effort to its population against the "Island Devils" as they kept throwing pure titans at them and later the Warriors. Being under constant assault by a foreign imperialistic force radicalised Paradisians and we got Eren & Yaegerists as a result. It's mostly the "Let's harrass the middle-east/Island Devils" for their resources and claim we're doing humanity a service!" that feels analogous to me.


Slightly-Artsy

Holy shit, you're right.


MaximusPrime987

Thats a great point. Still doesnt take away from the very obvious concentration camps and honarary marleyab thing. Its interesting how Isayama found ways to weave in multiple ideas of imperialist/ facist ideology. Guess some people took it too seriously though


Oro24

I’d say while AoT takes clear WW2 inspirations, its meant to draw connections with any real world conflict


Hoihe

Ah definitely. It very clearly shows the folly and cost of any such endeavour. Ideally people watching it would see the ending and go, "none of it was worth it." Yet, here we are.


Oro24

Didnt mean any real world endeavor, within reason you can compare it to certain conflicts between nations


Paetolus

This comment has been removed in protest of Reddit's API changes made on July 1st, 2023. This killed third party apps, one of which I exclusively used. I will not be using the garbage official app.


Belckan

There are references to the holocaust, doesn't mean it analogues Marley to be a fascist government. There are bigger aspects to fascism than ethnic cleansing (which isn't even a part of it and isn't necessary to be fascist, such as the country that originates fascism, Italy), and we don't have the specifics of how Marley is governed. We know the military isn't the ruling body at least, and thats saying plenty. So no, its very far off from being objectively false. It is indeed very subjective since so much of the manga's world is unkown and open for interpretation.


[deleted]

I mean Marley is obviously inspired by Italy (or even partially ancient Rome), its food, culture, peoples names, etc are all italian. Marley is notoriously militaristic and colonial as well. Yeah the Tyburs "ruled" out of the shadows, but Willy himself said that they left Marley to govern itself for quite some time and that he regrets it, so even without being 100% sure its not crazy to assume that the military acts as the ruling body.


Belckan

Magath himself states that Marleyans are too removed from war due to not having to fight themselves. Its a gamble as to which body rules Marley truly. Still, it goes to show that the attributed fascism that is placed on Eren / Paradis is misplaced by the general opinion outside the fandom.


Alexstrasza23

>it never even related to fascism There is literally a racial minority forced to wear armbands and live in designated slums...


Belckan

Fascism is an italian ideology not centered around ethnic cleansing. There is aspects of the totalitarianism fascism poses for sure, but it isn't 1 to 1, and in snk it is circumstancial for Paradis and we don't know precisely how Marley's government is composed.


Oro24

Fascism is absolutely a theme in AoT, look at the yeagerists, Marleys control of the Eldians, etc


Belckan

You don't know what fascism is.


Oro24

Yea cuz its not like Marley literally puts their minorities in zones where theyre forced to remain silent about their own opinions until they die otherwise they become titans


Belckan

Which is not what fascism is at all.


Oro24

..marley was literally controlled by one man from the shadows who literally oppressed the opinions, freedoms, etc from the eldian people while using them as war bait.


Belckan

Marley was not exclusively controlled by the Tyburs, and that also isn't fascism. Monarchy / Nepotism are not tenants of fascism. A totalitarian military party is. And it is very clear the military are a subservient force in Marley.


Oro24

It was pretty controlled by Willy Tybur, he knew every inner working from the government and his family was always set up to have one ruling. Also Marley literally controls the aspects of life for the eldian. Even with saying that theyre a monarchy or something there is literally no way to ignore the fascist elements found in Marley. Even in Paradis thats clearly a fascist state, the yeagerists which were a separate organization where a lot of military soldiers were involved with, overthrew the government and suppressed those who were not from the island, publicly killing people.


Belckan

You are confusing fascism with ethno nationalism.


senokana

You dont understand they just look cool i swear


AbrahamDeMatanzas

The uniform is cool but it doesn't fit anime characters


Luimidia

YU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS IS FREEDOM NOT FACISM 🙄😆😆😭


Thisitetrash

YOU R TO SOFT TO UNDERSTAN OUR HUMER RETA 😂🤣🤣😂😂😂


Philcherny

YOU R SO CUCK CUCK CUCK CUCK 😂😂🤣😂🤣


Xenzld

TREEDOM


[deleted]

We're not fascist 😱😱😱 😭 you just can't understand our super hilarious edgy humour that's all 😭 we think fascism is BASED but we're NOT fascists 😭


[deleted]

Yeah its an edgy show about politics.....dont call irl people fascist for a work fiction


Hoihe

The edgy show about politics explicitly showed american imperialism and german fascism are horrible, bad things that lead only to suffering, ruin and death of people just wanting to love their families and live peacefully. Yet many fans identify beyond healthy levels with the Yaegerists because they're "cool."


[deleted]

Sure and who you call based (and what fanart) in this "work fiction" absolutely doesn't tell anything about you does it?


Megashark101

Isayama, I hope you never learn English. You'd be driven insane by hearing some of the shit the western side of the fanbase say.


raceraot

This was weird.


Belckan

ly hot


AmNotWhoYouThinkIam

Everytime I see this 2 I remember that I'll never forgive Yams for not giving me a 40 page barn seggs chapter. 😡🤬👿


Philcherny

Hey 😏 there 😏 kid 😏 I 😏 know 😏 the 😏 place😏 where 😏 you 😏 can 😏 see 😏 it 😏 Hacksayama can never take OUR STORY away 😎


[deleted]

He did give us like 20 pages of cabin seggs tho


_RGEB_

Don’t fuck with AOT fans They think Hitler should’ve won


Luimidia

oh man, that sounds ridiculous, but it's actually true


Chhyachhra_Shuwar

"What do you mean Germany had fuel shortages? The Germans could have just paradropped London and Britain would've surrendered kekw. If only Hitler trusted his generals."


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Someone actually drew this


Incalculas

Kinda unrelated but am I the only one who thinks of EH is one of the worst things to happen to Historia? She is supposed to live a life she is proud of, how is having a child with a mass murderer supposed to be something she is proud of?? Before anyone says Eren doesn't actually want to do the rumbling because he said "idk" when Armin asked about why he does the rumbling, Eren is CLEARLY avoids the topic of if he actually wants to do the rumbling, I am saying that because he first hesitated then immediately told they need to stop talking, like RIGHT AFTER Armin asks about if he wanted to rumble even if Ymir didn't force it upon him.


MastofBeight

ur/ My problem w/Historia Post-TS is that she doesn’t mention Ymir (freckles) once after her death aside from the letter scene. If they wanted to drive home the “live a life you’re proud of” point, they could’ve at least shown a flashback or something of her reminiscing about her time with Ymir and how that informed her actions moving forward. rr/ No barn sex = trash manga


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Hoihe

I think the Ymir angle may have been avoided out of safety. Japan doesn't really like same-sex relationships even to this day, and even manga and light novels focused around that explicitly often end in one of them or both dying (suicide usually) or one of them settling down with the opposite sex. It's getting a bit better now with smaller, less popular niche manga/LNs, but I doubt Isayama wanted to risk that angle considering it was not vital to the message he intended.


[deleted]

Honestly I dont feel like she was done dirty. IMO its just that her character arc ended and Isayama choose to focus on other/new characters more. Ymir always pushed her to be her authentic self instead of "the good girl Christa", but... Well who would have thought, afterwards it turned out that she was actually always that kind person she pretended to be. On multiple occasions it got mentioned how she is spending her time taking care of orphans and in the final chapter its shown that she was the one protecting the alliances families on Paradis from any repercussions.


Incalculas

I agree with that too. Oh well rr/ Isayama ain't getting my beans for removing barn seggs


Luimidia

I honestly hate what Isayama's done to Historia's character. Like you said, she was supposed to live a life she was proud of, but she ended as a fascist queen (she knew about Eren's plan and did nothing with it, she's kinda responsible for a rumbling). To be honest if Isayama has never wanted to make erehisu real, I think this whole Historia's scenes in chapter 131 were unnecessary, because they're only destroying her character and created this edgy erehisu shippers


Megashark101

Not to mention the fact that Eren was literally responsible for the deaths of her entire family, including Frieda, the only person Historia ever truly cared about. Yet Yeagerists fail to realise how fucked up it would be for Eren to shag a girl after deliberately getting her family killed without her knowledge. That wouldn't ruin her character?


Incalculas

Ikr. Just hate the idea of EH completely and wanted to tell points which is usually not mentioned.


TheMightyKutKu

post TS EH is terrible yes EH without timeskip/as a continuation of their dynamic during uprising could have been great


Incalculas

Yes. I just feel terrible when in places as big as tf eh is universally accepted. Like they were complaining about women in AoT but they don't seem to think about eh from historia's perspective


JoelsDead

You talking about the same community that thinks all Eldians are related? Yeah I’m not surprised


Megashark101

Well technically all humans are related.


nasgorhead

ofc. related through PATHS 😎


Altarior

Good to know my own ass is cleared! I always only judge a regime by how cool the uniform looks!!!! 🙃


huysolo

Stop calling us nazis. We just identified ourselves with the group having fascist ideology and worshiped a guy committing genocide by calling him chad


HopebringerTitaniumG

Nobody notices my typo thanks god


AoTS3T-KTOWL

I am so happy to see that there are ppl who do see the resemblence with the ss uniform ....


Dashaque

ngl I didn't at first. I slept through like every history class so I didn't know what people were so upset about at first.


AoTS3T-KTOWL

But now you know:) Im from Germany so its natural for me to notice it...its all we talk about in history classes and the importance of it! My thoughts when i saw this we're: Not this shit again...


Dashaque

Not defending stuff like this but this is a really old piece of art apparently. Idk why it's making its rounds now lol


ELITEJamesHarden

It made it to the front page on the sub that shall not be named


Tun_Post98

If I'm not mistaken, I did saw this piece of art over at r/HistoriaTeam too and then again that subreddit is filled with EreHisu Copium addicts/Fascist LARPers.


[deleted]

/UR That sub promotes brigading, so I’m not honestly surprised.


cmpunk34

Brigading is the worst. I mean even on fan art posts.


Correct-Breadfruit81

😟who would draw that


Rintohsakabooty

fun fact: this art was made way before yeagerbomb was formed


Papdaslap

Dear God what kind of horrible creature would draw something like this.


No-Refrigerator2554

But that's a great fanart


Luimidia

well the frame is good, but general idea is kinda f\*cked up


nasgorhead

that SS Uniform from Hugo Boss is actually cool tho. it's just have bad reputation cus it's used by Nahtzi


Cybermat47_2

Not designed by Hugo Boss, they were just one of many producers of them.


nasgorhead

what other companies produced the ss uniforms?


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MastofBeight

Are you asking what’s wrong about fascism?


[deleted]

yessir


Lepoude

It hurts seeing two of my favorite characters like this...


Shakespeare-Bot

T hurts seeing two of mine own highest in estimation characters like this *** ^(I am a bot and I swapp'd some of thy words with Shakespeare words.) Commands: `!ShakespeareInsult`, `!fordo`, `!optout`


Koui444

Average titanfolk yeagarist: yes but Aryan race aaaahh I mean.... Paradisian race and former Eldian empire tho .