No spoilers
What are some of the most heavy libertarian/freedom/capitalism themed animes you've watched? Why?
No spoilers
What are some of the most heavy libertarian/freedom/capitalism themed animes you've watched? Why?
Konsuba
Kazuma did nothing wrong.
Kazuma really is the only reason I answered with Konsuba. He's probably the most lib right anime character of time and also somehow best girl.
Why is this the first answer instead of Gunsmith Cats? Gunsmith Cats straight up has the line "We can't trust the ATF" in it.
I haven't scene Gunsmith Cats but Kazuma from Konsuba does have a really lib right personality. He's not particularly political but in a meme/stereotype way he is definitely lib yellow and purple.
Probably Deathnote. The main characters have an ideological conflict that reminds me of the authoritarian vs libertarian debate
Gunsmith cats
Spice and wolf
Gunsmith Cats taught me an important lesson: Never trust the ATF
I've watched Gunsmith Cats. It's class.
I have seen it too. It’s an amazing OVA.
I don't know if "the most" but Attack on Titan is quite libertarian, sometimes, and some characters at least.
Very militaristic and somewhat fascist.
Let's just say a part of it is libertarian.
Spoilers ahead:
!Eren and Armin at the beggining are looking for freedom, and to stop being encapsulated by the walls and humilliated by the titans. Later, they search for freedom in a bad way, genocide, but it contains some libertarian ideas here and there.!<
I have not watched Spice and Wolf but I heard that show revolves a lot about how market economies work. Psycho Pass is a great anime (at least the first season) that demonstrates the dangers of the police state and thought crime. Maoyuu Maou Yuusha is an anime that shows how free trade and a global economy can reverse the military industrial complex in a fantasy setting. Some of my personal favorite animes that arent necessarily libertarian themed but express pro-libertarian ideals are Full Metal Alchemist and Food Wars: Full Metal Alchemist again explores the military industrial complex and the concept of alchemy resonates a lot with lib right beliefs of opportunity costs and such. Food Wars is all about using ingenuity and breaking the mold to rise to the top, very akin to free market capitalism and how it should operate.
Trigun
Definitely
Omg, great anime.
Kino’s journey
Most anime have a shit ton of loopholes when it comes to the politics and economy of their show but ngl I'd probably say Naruto because you can practically anything you want with a few exceptions.
Free market jutsu!
I've thought about Naruto/the Hidden Leaf's society and it's relatively libertarian. The main difference would be the regulation of jutsu and Shinobi classes being like "licenses". Same thoughts for BNHA.
I mean you can still use jutsu without being a ninja and the government is funded through military type expeditions where they do jobs to pay for the government of the village which is more libertarian than them just being taxed to hell
Radiant, deals with a hella corrupt inquisition
Magi The labyrinth of Magic has an entire arc about how crappy fiat currency is.
I haven't watched it, but some say C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control.
My picks:
Doh. Somebody did mention psycho-pass
I don't know of any anime that focuses this much on politics and especially economics but if there is any slightly "libertarian" that would be one piece, at least the protagonists as pirates do not plunder AND they gi against the world government, raiding prisons, punching monarchs,
Ted kaczynski fans would really appreciate zankyou no terror. This is a much shorter and maybe more politics focused anime
I’m currently watching the impel down arc. God I love that show
It gets even vetter soon
Thanks for the heads up 🤝
Black lagoon
I feel like Dr. Stone has a bit of Fountainhead in it
Ryusui is literally an Ayn Rand character.
I've definitely felt this. Especially individualism vs collectivism. Hopefully it develops it more explicitly next season (I'm not reading) because I think it would add meaning to it.
Rand wasn't a libertarian.
Dororo.
Gurren Lagann, Gunsmith Cats, and Ergo Proxy.
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I see r/AncapWeebs is brigading this.
I'm with this guy!
fuck anime
Very underrated one: Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
I've watched this! I definitely see it; I think I watched it because I heard that it's libertarian-esque. The society definitely is close but it wasn't like FOCUSED on liberty ideals or anything.
Don't have a wide depth of anime knowledge, but Kill La Kill seems to fit the bill well. It's a pretty explicit anti-fascist story about fighting against oppression (cut the clothes that bind you).
I’m surprised nobody said Psycho-Pass yet
Log Horizon and One Piece
Ever watched shimoneta?
Don't think I've heard of it. Is it libertarian lol?
Kinda. The government gets all authoritarian on all thing sexual including pornography and sex ed. The first scene in the anime depicts a couple hooligans reading old porn mags in an abandoned building, and then a swat team rappels through the windows and arrests them
One piece 💙💙💙
Vinland Saga
Many of them deal with what it means to be a free, unique individual and the arcs are often set against authoritarianism. Cowboy Bebop, One Piece. Hell, even Ghost in the Shell deal with topics of how dangerous the state can be and what it means to have free will.
The diversity of plots and topics makes it hard to pick one.