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!
So apparently, after some investigation, the South Korean studio that was hired to do the animation outsourced the project to the North Korean studio under the nose of the American company that hired them.
That's... kinda scummy, actually.
It's actually pretty common. Outsourcing animation to occupied Korea is basically the standard now for US animated content network producers. US animators largely just produce storyboards and sometimes a couple keyframes of characters and define the drawing rules for certain characters. Occupied Korea then actually does the actual animations from these references and rules. Then, to increase profits, some of those occupied Korea companies outsource aspecta of the drawing to independent Korea.
That is wild! Wait, occupied Korea and independent Korea... which is which and why is what? Tried looking it up, and got a history lesson on the occupation of Korea by Japan, and a fuck ton of ads for like 5 pages.
I'm referring to South Korea as occupied Korea and North Korea as independent Korea.
Korea was divided due to US invasion and occupation that never ended. The war never ended and cannot end without the United States signing off, which it refuses to do. Massive US bases remain in South Korea and it is not really a sovereign country, it is controlled by Chaebols and similar monopolies entrenched with US-dominated capitalism.
North Korea, in contrast, remains independent. It outperformed the South until the fall of the USSR, after which the US-led capitalist faction of nations proceeded to isolate it, cutting off fuel and other kinds of trade on which it depended. Combined with natural disasters, this led to the near famine conditions of the 90s that are what the false memes about North Korean poverty often refer to. The philosophy of Juche strengthened as a result of this experience and North Korea is now much more secure and independent, though it has close economic ties to China.
Incidentally, the US invasion was essentially on the pro-Japanese side. The (more popular) socialists rejected the Japanese imperialists as well as their collaborators while the US embraced both, basically just stepping into Japan's shoes because they could use the existing apparatus to mass slaughter pro-independence people in the South.
Whoa! Well damn, I guess I have some stuff to study and follow up on. Thank you so much for informing me!
Of course, friend. If you like podcasts, Blowback recently did a very good and detailed series on this.
yo dawg i heard you like outsourcing
so we outsourced your outsourcing so we can save on labor costs while you save on labor cost
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That's classic capitalist pursuit of the profit motive right there.
boo hoo hoo a for-profit corporation got scammed by another one boo hoo fucking hoo give me a break
This reads like a line out of an old sitcom.