[dreamcastegirl]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I don't begrudge anyone who'd hope that a writer would make enjoying a show designed to sell toys to Japanese children something that wasn't shackled to representations of masculinity that were tired and objectionable even back in 2008.

I absolutely agree, we should always ask for more, we should always ask for better, especially considering how horrible the world we live in is. I have so many feelings about this, and I struggle to find the words to express this over and over again, and, well, then you sadly end up with me being all emotional in your thread (sorry!).

I just... I'm all about Death of the Author, about knowing as little about the person behind the work as possible, but it's impossible not to see the values and politics of the time in which a work was made reflected in its telling, I guess, and there is a lot of 2008 in Kiva. That's what I'm trying to say.

I don't know, I personally hated 2008. I'll put a pin in this, as I want to come back to talking about Otoya later on.

(every one of my paragraphs in this post began with "I". That's awful.)