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I travel space and time, searching for perfection, for safety, and for purpose. I may never find it, and I may get lost, but the important part is the journey, not the destination. Enjoy it or remiss.

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Aug
14th
2015

The Legend of Korra · 12:47pm Aug 14th, 2015

After finally watching The Legend of Korra to its completion, I have to say that it was probably the greatest anime I've watched in such a long time. Not only is it marked by spot-on animation, gut-wrenching humor, and relatable and deep emotional conflicts, it contains something that very few animes I've personally seen have ever even thought of including: politics.

I'm not sure why it is that politics and government intrigues me so, but this show satisfied my taste for steam punk and government all in one go. It's so unbelievably political that the parallels are laughably so. Whether it be through the Avatar dealing with personal, social problems that come with a burgeoning and blooming society, or the tedious, strenuous, and downright infuriating process of diplomacy, this show was nothing but satisfying.

The only downfall that I found was that the relationships were introduced far too early. In fact, I feel as if the entire first season was streamlined out in order to cover all their bases to begin a new story. Therefore, the first season and all that came with it was awfully lackluster and demands more thought, time, and care.

However, I do have to commend the show on one thing: the ending. Okay, spoilers, everyone. Of course, you should have known that from the get go. But anyway, the ending shows the fruition of their plans that saved the world and the downtime as they pick up the pieces and live happily ever after. It's an ending, and all endings tend to follow the same path.

But as Korra and Asami decide to go on a vacation together into the spirit world, the ending heavily, HEAVILY insinuates something romantic is most likely going on between those two, and that's an unbelievably ballsy move to make on a kids show network such as Nickelodeon. And that's respectable, I think. Commendable, in fact. But the one thing that really has me is this:

It felt right. At the end, their relationship felt like they could take it to that next level, and so I personally thought it was a fantastic ending. It borders on outright stating a romantic interest, but it stays just vague enough to not make it completely obvious. It's rather interesting.

Whatever the case may be, the series was great. It was unique, charming, and a thrill ride that forced me to binge watch the whole show in only a few days. I'd definitely give this an 8/10.

EDIT: Scratch that, turns out Korrasami is completely and totally a thing. It's basically like the ending to that The Last of Us DLC, which is a parallel that I meant to draw earlier.

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Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Chaika have politics in them, as does Crest of the Stars.

the greatest anime I've watched

Erm... I think it's western made, and as such, not considered anime...

~Skeeter The Lurker

Technically, this isn't an anime. It's western animation with eastern influences, including in art style, but it isn't a Japanese animation, or Asian at all, so it's not anime.
So, what Skeeter said is right.

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Yeah, but it's centered more in western problems, as far as I've seen. And I meant to change that to not be so general. There are all kinds of animes that involve politics heavily, but this is one that doesn't exactly seem fit to involve it, yet here we are.

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Yeah, but it's not a cartoon, and it is featured on just about every major anime site. There is no word to describe what this show is, and even "show" doesn't fit the description to me personally.

So while anime is more synonymous with "animations originating from Japan," I think the idea of anime is more general and not as specific as you guys are making it out to be. That's how I view it.

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To reaffirm my point, I'm posting a comment I made on my status update on Facebook. I originally wrote this post for Facebook, so I had two conversations going on this same subject.

Hmm, I think the connotation behind the word "anime" is misleading when you aren't in Japan. The same way that animation describes every cartoon, "anime" describes every "anime." Anime is still the Japanese word for animation, and I think that definition has been lost over the years. Except in Japan, I'm sure, since "anime" describes every single piece of animation, and to everyone else, it describes "animations originating from Japan."

So I personally think that anime is not an exclusive term.

I hated every moment of it. It was boring, drawn-out and suffered the original Avatar's lack of convincing backdrop. There was no worldbuilding, no hint at events greater than ones surrounding this single, boring, nonspecific city. Nothing made sense. Korra was an obvious lesbian, which would have been interesting had they been brave enough to explore it, but they weren't. Fanon doesn't count, because if it did Equestria would be a whole lot more bullshitty ship-tastic.

The world was unrealistic to the point of stupidity: poor-man's fighting mechs and silly taser gauntlets in abundance, but not a single firearm or reasonable vehicle to be found. The steampunk was boring, since they had (and relied upon) the "magic"-- excuse me, "bending"-- to fall back on when they needed to pull a deus ex machina from somebody's ass, which happened with alarming frequency.

The so-called "brilliant sociopolitical issues" were glossed over and unimportant, and can be thoroughly summarized by the statement "discrimination is always a horribad thing and everyone's equal", which was funny coming from a show about an elite group of elemental mages of the ruling caste battling the forces of oppressed-humanity-at-large in a misguided attempt at showing why equality is underrated if you're a special snowflake. The politics you seem to think are original and new (Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Now and Then, Here and There spring to mind, with the former having them as a central component and the latter using them much more effectively and simply than LoK) are both insignificant and bland, on the lines of something like Phantom Menace: Boring, pointless, let's get to the fight scene with hot women and robots already.

The villains were boring EvilDudes™ who tried to be clever and intelligent twists on common tropes, but failed miserably due to incompetent writing and lackluster supporting story, supplemented with deum ex machina aplenty when they needed to actually crawl out of their quagmire of incompetence and move the story forward.

Let's face it: it was a cash-in on Last Airbender's already-overrated existence, nothing more. It sucked, I hated it, Wakfu was a better Western anime (that's the technical genre, yes) in all regards. Watch that instead.

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Ahh, I see. Well, I'm going to be honest with you: I disagree with literally everything you've written here. Well, except about the firearm thing. But then again, that also means that you are saying that firearms are a part of the standard progression of society as it advances with technology, and since bending is the main mode of warfare, it can be anyone's idea on how things progress as the technological revolution takes hold. Nothing is certain, and to assume that things must be one way is wrong.

But anyway, as I said, I simply can't agree with you at all, and that's fine. You've got your opinion, and I've got mine. The only thing I truly agree with you on is the lack of same-sex shipping.

However, you must realize that people are easily triggered (sorry, that picture on your user page is hilarious), so the moment that two girls kiss on a kids show, every parent is going to cry about it.

"You're teaching our kids the wrong things! They're turn into lesbians for sure now!" I'm fairly sure that's how things would play out. But the fact it was even insinuated is a great step in the right direction.

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Oh, believe me, I recognize just how that particular revelation would go. Global shitstorms. Big and nasty.

But, hey. You enjoyed it. I didn't. It's hardly empirical either way. At least you got something from it, and it is certainly a high-tier show, don't get me wrong. But it tried to be something it never could have accomplished, and suffered for it. In my opinion, anyway.

I'll argue the "guns" thing if you like, because I firmly believe it was simple censorship by the authors that ultimately detracted from the show's worldbuilding, but frankly I'm tired enough to just let it go if you're feeling similarly apathetic.

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Meh, I'm able to agree that the lack of firearms is most likely connected to the lack of girls in love, but it's also one of those things where the world doesn't really gain anything from it besides more death. It's not a good addition, especially since there was already quite a bit of large-scale destruction and devastation wrought by things not associated with firearms. So it can be written off as simply not being the first thing people think of when they go to war in that world. Why would you need a weapon to defend yourself when you yourself ARE the weapon?

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