Watching Boku No Hero Academia. It's pretty good, but I can't help but find some of the themes behind it offputting. :/

@Angle what themes?

@ambyrb It seems... Very establishmentarian, if that makes any sense? The heroes are all important, official, respected, etc, while the villians are all clearly less established, less respected. Theres also bits like the part where they have a government database of everyones powers. And the part where they have the villians be vaguely mentally ill as a way of showing how evil they are. Though thats pretty standard for shonen anime. :/

@ambyrb Anime in general tends to have a lot of this - the Japanese are pretty conformist, and their works show it. :/

@Angle @ambyrb mmmmmmmm

please take a moment and think about what you're saying when you begin a sentence with "The Japanese are..." thanks

@amphetamine @ambyrb I mean yeah, obviously that doesn't apply to everyone. But on average, I'm pretty confident they'd score pretty high on that metric.