Revolutionary heroes ranging from John Brown to Kim Il-Sung are isekai’d to a fantasy world that parodies shows like ‘the rising of the shield hero’ to break the chains of slavery in all forms once more and liberate the fantasy workers and the peasants from the yoke of feudal oppression while hunting down so-called “heroes” summoned by the feudal lords who intend to use them as tools to preserve their power and the economic base of their feudalistic slave economy.
Show me Stalin riding a chocobo or some shit leading a calvary charge against slaver caravans!
Show me Marx, Engels, and Lenin working together in the cities inspiring the proto-proletariate to take up arms against the feudal robber-barons and their land-leechs that bleed them dry
Show me Mao, Tito, and bonus character Jan Žižka, on a rural bro-venture with the three in a competitive rivalry to see who can organize the greatest peasant rebellion between the three!
I remember hearing that that part of The Lion King that people sometimes claim has the stars spelling out “SEX”, aCtUaLLy had the stars spelling out “SEK”, because that scene had supposedly been outsourced to SEK Studio — and the stars were SEK’s way of sneaking in some credits for themselves, since they wouldn’t get credited otherwise. Now the evidence of this story actually being true are basically nonexistent, just rumors, but it’s still a fun story if nothing else, right?
But honestly just give me more animation from every country in general, though. I used to say that I wanted to watch at least one animation from every country — really, I still kinda do, but it’s just not easy to actually do this, right? It’s easiest to get into animation from the Core Anglosphere and Japan, obviously; and it’s decently easy to get into animation from Europe, the FSU, China and Korea if you know where to look; and I’ve found it considerably more difficult to get into animation from everywhere else, but part of that might just be that I’m just not trying hard enough, right?
This desire to see animation in all countries flourish really also goes hand in hand with my own interests in fanime / (budget) independent animation, as well as my interests in fandubbing and fansubbing, and my fantasies about Norway sort of reevaluating its relationship to animation from Seppoland and Japan and going through a whole sort of renaissance of local animation that cuts into these countries’ soft power. Because basically nothing about anime that makes it so appealing for so many people is actually specific to Japan in any meaningful way, it’s really just historical happenstance.
Oh, and another side note about animation in the DPRK specifically: the anime tracker website Anilist used to have a section for DPRK animation, but they got rid of it for some reason! Honestly I am STILL a bit ticked off about that, because that was one of the best resources I knew of for learning about and exploring that country’s animation, and by Jove do they have animation in the DPRK, I can tell you that much!
isn’t it SFX?
Probably, that interpretation was apparently confirmed by someone who worked on the film.
But maybe thaaaat’s a cooooover uuuuup oOoOoOh
we need a juche