By the way, Null, why not employ the services of hackers to unveil the secrets hidden within the realms of kerfuffles and Liz's correspondences, if your allegations hold any veracity? We possess historical evidence suggesting your affinity for employing hackers to expose individuals you harbor disdain for.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" so... where is your evidence that Null has employed hackers to expose his enemies? You are literally asking Null to hack Liz and Keffals... while accusing him of having already done so? Even you should be able to see how your argument is self-contradictory.
I did not know null said that. I also don't remember the pissing scene as it's been years since I seen it but I remember the very sad ending and the bombing scenes and some of the scenes where the brother tried to comfort his younger sister after getting food for her too late.
I literally don't even remember seeing any nudity in that movie. If it was there, it went right over my head, that's how little attention I paid to it. I saw
Grave of the Fireflies for the first time about 10 years ago. Here's what I remember purely at the top of my head, without reading the synops or watching the trailer again:
I remember the older brother and his sister moving in with a scroogy aunt (? it was some family member, I think it was their mother's sister?) who complained about them eating too much rice.
I vaguely remember a hospital scene with the patients bandaged all over because they were burned horribly.
I most distinctly remember the scenes of the aerial raids/bombings of the villages and how orange-hued the drawings were. The Japanese houses catching fire immediately because they were made of wood and paper. As everyone else was fleeing out of the burning village, the older brother running in the opposite direction. The brother running into one of the burning houses to steal food while the village was still getting bombed. I remember he was stealing fermented soy beans or natto. Back then I didn't know what kind of food this was. Later I learned what it was, and I realized that fermented soy beans is likely what people would eat when they don't have a lot and they have to preserve literally every little bit of food they have. It's a survival food.
I remember the cave (or was it a hole in the ground?) where the siblings tried to survive for a while. The brother would bring the stolen goods to the cave to share with his sister and to make their space more comfortable.
I remember the affection and responsibility that the older brother felt for his younger sister, despite being young himself.
I remember the older brother having an argument with some older boys (because they knew he was stealing?).
I remember the little sister wanting to eat "dropuru" and a flashback scene where they showed her before the war, eating fruit drop candy from a little tin box with English lettering on it.
I remember her death scene and how awfully decrepit she looked as she starved to death.
I remember her brother's depression and personal sense of defeat at being unable to save his sister.
I remember the older brother dying in the train station amongst other starving orphaned kids begging, as well-dressed adults passed them by ignoring their misery. I remember how in the end, the frame zoomed out from above to show all the other kids around him, to really bring home the idea that he was just one of many such kids orphaned and starved by the war.
This is what I remember from this movie, 10 years later.
What Null remembers: There was a scene of a pissing toddler. It was obviously meant as a dog-whistle to pedos.
I am actually a little shocked that null was able to sexualize that movie. I assumed he never saw it and thought it was paedo shit cuz kids are in it. The fact he watched it and came to that conclusion is beyond fucked.
It's really sad in a way, because he's projecting so much personal sexual trauma and shame onto anime.
"If only I had never seen Neko Shota"... then he would've seen some other fucked up online porn and bragged to his frenemies at Blockland about seeing
that, because all that stuff was pervasive online. His generation of millennials have been on smartphones since they were 6 and had access to online porn at 10. They're all sexually traumatized by being exposed to various forms of online porn at very young ages. That whole generation grew up watching really twisted weird shit online, so I don't think it's entirely fair to single out Null like he was alone or unique in that. He really wasn't. Null's response to that sexual trauma is to aggressively disavow all anime and to use that as an opportunity to pander to the ultra-rightwing racists on his forum by claiming that Japanese culture is inherently a pedo culture and that he, as an innocent white kid on the internet, was manipulated into thinking he was gay by this evil foreign pedophilic influence. As if the West doesn't also sexualize children, infantilize women and feminize male children (
Cuties anyone? How about Lactacia and those other male "drag kids"?) I can imagine an Asian person looking at that and thinking that the West is pedo and a perverse oversexed culture too.
) understand that the kid is just too busy climbing the tree to be self-conscious of how they look.
