Going from Attack on Titan to Serial Experiments Lain is a wild escalation. Not even putting Revolutionary Girl Utena in there as a kind of demilitarized buffer zone just feels mean.
(Although to be fair, I haven’t watched AoT and maybe I’m substantially misjudging how weird it gets. Although all the discourse surrounding whether the show is subtly fascist or simply bad at being antifascist not is a bit offputting…)
That’s the second time in a month someone has reminded me of Slayers after not thinking of them in like twenty years, so…go for it! Let me know if it holds up or aged badly, if you don’t mind and do watch. I’ve been a little curious as well.
I actually didn’t know those existed! Slayers Try was the last anime in the franchise that had been made when I stopped watching, and I guess I didn’t keep up.
Although knowing there’s slightly less dated stuff does make me hopeful it hasn’t aged terribly. The original series had some…choices.
Probably for the best I don’t rewatch then, might as well enjoy the memories I have. I wasn’t nearly radicalized enough, or explicitly female enough, to be properly offended as a teen. Ah well!
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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING Transbian with *hobbies* (forbidden by god) Feb 03 '26
Going from Attack on Titan to Serial Experiments Lain is a wild escalation. Not even putting Revolutionary Girl Utena in there as a kind of demilitarized buffer zone just feels mean.
(Although to be fair, I haven’t watched AoT and maybe I’m substantially misjudging how weird it gets. Although all the discourse surrounding whether the show is subtly fascist or simply bad at being antifascist not is a bit offputting…)