What are your left wing manga/anime recommendations? I only got Ninpu Kamui Gaiden, because it is communist and ninjaic? You may shrug you shoulders, but a communist created all the ninja cliches, like a dude named Sasuke and the “Izuna Drop”! Unfortunately, the manga is from 1969, when the United States still had not erased all left-wing presence in Japan.
I like to describe I’m in Love With The Villainess as ‘Lesbian isekai with Marxist-Leninist Characteristics’, as it has a revolution lead by a vanguard party in the first two light novels (which the manga has yet to get past the first two LNs). ‘Part 2’ of the story does get away from the same precise political themes a bit but it’s still entertaining (and it’ll probably be nice if/when the manga gets there).
I also read Koroshiya Yametai! (or: I wanna be fired!) recently. It’s kiinda mid but it’s lesbian and there’s an interesting polemic about refugees and their role as cheap labor in the global north.
I can also recommend the classic Akira, which while it isn’t explicitly leftist it portrays the military-industrial complex in fairly left wing fashion and also talks about some of the struggles of poverty.
I’ll definetly give the ones that you’ve posted a look :)
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This is what I was hoping Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady would be but it’s a bourgeois revolution.
I havent finished that one yet, some of the polemics were interesting but the light novel was kinda meh and I havent watched the anime yet. Bummer that its bourgeois
It’s still lesbian tho
That’s always something
Just started the I’m In Love With the Villainess manga and holy shit is she down horrendous
Which one?
Main girl Rae of course.
The politics seem to start around chapter 16 and while I don’t love the “rioting commoners were part of a shadowy plot” beat, the overall structure of how the magic system affects the material conditions is interesting.
Oh lol I see I had misunderstood what you had said. I think it felt more like the shadowy plot taking advantage of public anger to me which is why I felt like it works, since the agency is still with the populace at large. I’m glad you think it’s interesting though!