watched a bunch

• the first few episodes of gundam unicorn. not good, deeply naive liberal politics. the most blatant anything i've seen has done "the villains are right but go too far" because they forgot to make them go too far but everyone acts like they're going to blow up planet earth. incredibly pretty mech fights though, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not. 7/10
• momotaro: sacred sailors. bad, blatant fascist propaganda, deeply imperialist to its core. cute animals representing the indigenous population of colonized islands in the 1940s sing about how much they love acting as japan's labor force. fascist propaganda/10
• voices of a sacred star: the only good thing makoto shinkai has ever made. who knew that if his stuff had charming animation and a relationship that works instead of being the most overproduced glossy shit ever made and having bad relationships i don't care about i would actually like it. 8/10
• finished g gundam: would be a 9/10 if the fights were good. instead it's a 6/10 that has the occasional good episode and ends way stronger than the rest of the show. maybe 7/10
• gundam seed freedom: dogshit movie. so many problems from the plot to the editing to the awful awful animation (they spent 18 years on this garbage! how!). there are massive pacing problems and the movie ranges from the least subtle thing ever to not explaining what happened to the plot of the movie and why everyone is doing something else now and the themes are incredibly reprehensible but had a good time heckling the movie for all the terrible terrible choices they made with it with some friends. 2/10
• gate thus the jsdf fought there: again, this is fascist propaganda but it's worse than momotaro because this is doing isekai bullshit the whole time in addition to the fascist "we should get to invade china because they want to send HALF THEIR POPULATION HERE!" the author of gate believes china is attempting to flood japan (a country with a high population density at ~120 million) with SIX HUNDRED MILLION IMMIGRANTS. this is the kind of delusional right wing fantasy we're dealing with here. the heroic jsdf are pure to the point of absurdity as they slaughter hundreds of thousands of medieval soldiers and suffer no casualties ever. maybe the worst thing i've ever seen. 17 episodes to go
• horus prince of the sun: the guy who made all those good ghibli movies (and also miyazaki is helping) does marxist propaganda by way of a fairy tale. 1968 was an interesting year. 9/10
• ghost in the shell stand alone complex: man what a great show. love the tachikoma and batou's relationship with them, love the main character being a transgender bisexual poly queen, love the action and music and cool cyberpunk ideas, and all the stand alone episodes except maybe the wine one, and all the complex episodes (togusa's such a loser i love him) 9/10 but maybe bumped up to a 10 if i keep thinking about it
• nausicaa: this is a fantastic movie to watch while stoned. what a cool world and movie, the best aesthetic miyazaki ever put out, i gotta read the manga. 9/10

also reading some manga. we are former girls hits hard, the main character's transphobic mom is painful to read. really praying the manga doesn't decide she just has rinko's best interests at heart and she should be forgiven all her bullshit