So ngl ,I asked for one for comics ,but I want for manga too

Usually I wouldn’t ask for good politics but I think bad politics might get on my mood rn

I like sci if ,I like slice of life series ,I like mystery/psychological and I do like historical series

I don’t mind any genre

  • Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    getter robo is a series about how the hotblooded nature of a manly manga hero can easily turn into a constant desire for expansion and domination and is kind of fascist. it’s also a series about the coolest shit ever happening, with giant robots fighting dinosaurs and demons and weird bug aliens and wizards

    jojo’s bizarre adventure doesn’t always have good politics, but steel ball run (part 7) is a mostly standalone part that’s all about how american imperialism is bad, and is also just really good

    look back is a one shot by tatsuki fujimoto that’s good. not particularly political, it’s just a good drama

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    I mentioned in the other recent thread but Paperakyu has great politics, some of the best I’ve seen in a manga, which is weird because it very much feels like those weird existential comics that invariably have generally pretty bad politics like Oyasumi Punpun.

    The one that has the best politics though is definitely The Promised Neverland

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    Well, a historical manga with good politics might be Story of My Village — I haven’t read much of it but it is really cool to be able to read a manga about (a fictionalized version of) the Sanrizuka Struggle.

    Otherwise, have you read Akane-banashi yet?

  • theoneIno@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    heyy, have you read One Piece?

    It’s the leftiest, most anti-imperialist anime/manga I’ve seen to date. Although it has cartoon-like art, the themes are serious and deeply political.

    Also most people have issues with it being too long… the problem is quite the opposite the more you read/watch, it’s actually too short for how many well interconnected mysteries, characters and places there actually are, everything is fleshed out.

    Also it doesn’t get worse with time like most long series, it gets even better!

    Good luck on your Sails if you haven’t checked it out yet!

    Oda is a secret propagandist, who got to make the most popular anime in history, truly a madman genius if you ask me

    • Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      one piece is good but i would like to just say don’t expect too much from its politics. there is an arc where the heroes restore a settler colonial government, and most arcs are about restoring the rightful king to his throne. it might not be what someone looking for good politics is looking for!

      • theoneIno@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        I get what you mean, it does feel like that sometimes, but after watching more I’ve realized that Luffy is primarily an Anti-Imperialist, so the Sraw Hats do restore some monarchies, but in the name of expeling a foreign power who took over the country, which I’m all for as an ML, our first fight should always be against imperialism, as I’d argue that even the Taliban government is better than 20 years of imperial war to remove them from power and let them restore it again

        Which arc are you referring to? If it’s Skypea yeah, it’s the arc with worst politics IMO, but the others are mostly on point, for example Alabasta is a critique of Bourgeois Revolution (directed by Crocodile), even the name of his organization (Baroque Works) is a reference to this time in (european) history, who at the same time represents an external power meddling in internal politics and Wano is crearly against imperial industrial capitalism depleting a nation’s resources, starving its people and supporting an illegitimate internal power (which took over with foreign help)

        Few things to note:

        • Piracy in imperial Japan was one of the ways to true freedom living under an oppressive regime
        • In the Caribbean and many places, one of the few safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ groups was in piracy, if you are already persecuted by the governments for who you are, you have nothing else to lose (and this is a recurring theme) - Oda did make some mistakes about the Trans community, but at the same time, in later chapters this has been way better handled ans there are well written transmasc and transfem characters. Also there is a fruit called the Hormone-Hormone fruit, which can change a person’s gender in one touch
        • The main world pirate policing force, the Marines, belong to the World Government, which is quite literally the Anglo-(north-)American empire. Also who is still the biggest Marine military in the world right now?
        • Luffy’s dad rides a ship called the Wind Granma, the same name of the ship that took our comrades Fidel and Che back to Cuba, besides being the leader of the Revolutionary Army, his design being loosely based in Fidel, in recent chapters he confirmed he is a staunch Marxist-Leninist (IMO) as he recognizes (in a flashback, so when he was younger), that in order to oppose the Imperial core they do need a military force of similar might, or else liberation will never last