Complete misunderstanding of both "propaganda" and "cops"
02.03.2026 17:15
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Complete misunderstanding of both "propaganda" and "cops"
Im seeing now used at the mere existence of a police in a show and nothing more. This causes more harm than benefit
Gundam Hathaway is the most I have been excited for Gundam in a while. With GQuux, it was only while watching that I thought it was incredible, but this first of a trilogy sets up a very exciting entry into the Gundam franchise that -while I had issues- am eager for.
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Teaching my first course today (as instructor not assistant).
Wish me luck!
Starting something new in 2026, I'm challenging myself to write 12 essays in 12 months. Read about it (and stuff I liked in 2025) here. Will I achieve it? Will I burn out? Only one way to find out!
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Starting something new in 2026, I'm challenging myself to write 12 essays in 12 months. Read about it (and stuff I liked in 2025) here. Will I achieve it? Will I burn out? Only one way to find out!
Subscribe and tell your friends.
open.substack.com/pub/ramighan...
First film of the year!
Watched the highly acclaimed 100 Meters from 2025, one of the greats of the year I foresee.
wrote a few words on it on my letterboxd
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in any case I did play through Silent Hill f what an incredible video game please play it (more than once)
Been a hot minute since I posted on blusky whoops. Besides being smacked by the end of the semester, I've been mostly posting shorter movie reviews on my letterboxd which you can see here letterboxd.com/TigerHibiscus/
I'll probably do some kind of end of year substack post too
Congratulations!
Its been a long time since I read it but if u have any questions or just wanna discuss just msg me anytime
Good book!
Too amped up with thoughts from the film, especially my dissatisfaction with it (and maybe with Chainsawman as a whole) so I wrote it all out a new substack post. Please check it out if you have time and already seen it.
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I had a good time! A fantastic animated work, especially in the big fight scene. However, I find this film is exactly what I expected from my relationship with the manga, and I wasn't a big fan of this arc in the first place.
I'm just glad I get to see anime films in my small college town
Heard this movie is pretty good.
Happy birthday 🎂!!
Extremely important and well written article on the state of anime distribution through an undervalued but a pivotal practice in distribution, "typesetting". Some key takeaways (thread):
Go to working people*
Now, money is constantly being moved around between huge corporations at a disadvantage for the reason so that it doesn't go to working pepper
Addendum to my last point on capitalism not working: on the note of expensive new software, AI, and layoffs. Speculation is more profitable than sales. The promise of streamlined efficiency and AI production generates more than any product made by them, which is why execs are embracing it so much
As such, its hard to look at these things through our conventional notions of capitalism, capitalism itself is dated (you can argue when this began, perhaps 2008), both as a market system and a social system with neoliberalism. Daiz's article on typesetting reveals these new tenets in anime
Most of these executives have enough money for multiple lifetimes. We are now beyond the growth-seeking mindset or corporate economy, its now simply about control, bringing to mind the notion of "Techno-feudalism" (as well as platform capitalism mentioned earlier)
In addition, with the cost argument, using OOONA is not a financially lucrative decision, where human labor is already so cheap, Daiz frames it as any excuse to "cut the wages of real human workers" for "one step closer to the next yacht purchase" I agree with the former statement but not the latter
This is the crux of why Crunchyroll can "get away with it". Despite the existence of Netflix or Hulu etc, there becomes no difference if the product for consumption is simply "anime". This is where the exclusivity model gains so much power, the entire landscape of anime distribution is warped.
When you combine the homogenization of industry practice, eliminating typesetting, with the exclusivity model, there isn't an incentive to beat competition, competition itself as a concept becomes diminished. where you watch anime from no longer matters, if all anime is presented the same
In the last section of Daiz' article, sub-titled "how capitalism ruins everything", they outline the exclusive licensing model for international licensing. The power of such a strategy should have been more emphasized as its the key to all of this
Anime distribution, in the eyes of executives, is not a medium, its simply a product. Not a surprising statement, but the way this manifests and the decoupling of product from characteristic (medium, art etc., even as commercial) is crucial to such large corporate decisions that affect all of us
Here is the most important part. Daiz often repeats and emphasizes the lack of "care" or respect for "anime as a medium". This is repeated multiple times. This leads to their claim at the end that pivots to OOONA and others are NOT a cost-effective strategy. I would take it a step further -
