ChouunShiryuu's Profile - MyAnimeList.net (original) (raw)

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2214314

This thread probably has funny stuff. I got this from there:

https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=466684

His backstory is to be expected, but that take on Babylon is ridiculous. Marked funny.

"It asks questions such as: Is suicide wrong? Should suicide be legal? What if someone could coerce you into killing yourself within seconds? What is it she can say to change your mind? And if you figure it out would you be convinced to join her victims? It begs you to understand these questions. If you don’t get IT, you’re the minority, if you don’t get IT you are not intelligent enough. Politicians, citizens of Japan, and entire countries vote to support the suicide law. But you simply don’t understand why because you are a normal human being. You know what's right from wrong, and you can tell that everything that occurs within the world of Babylon is illogical. Rather than asking questions rooted in modern-day society (such as the legality of euthanasia), the writer discusses the suicide law, an argument no one in the real world would benefit from pondering. No one acts like a real human being in this show. They are all cardboard cutouts existing to preach philosophy from the insidious mind of an uninformed writer."

"There is no reality in which suicide will be legalized as a law. If someone is determined to take their own life, they will not stop to consider what the government has to say about it. People still have morals and know right from wrong, no decent human being would stand aside and watch a person commit suicide when they have the power to save their life. Meanwhile in the ass-backward world of Babylon... Hundreds of people commit mass suicide and the police do not investigate anything because they “want to avoid a scandal.” What the fuck. This is Japan not fucking North Korea. I find it impossible to believe the police wouldn’t care about a string of violent deaths at the same time in the same place. Babylon imagines a nightmarish perversion of reality where suicide is morally acceptable, encouraged, and the solution to depression. The sun emits a hellish hue of orange, water is colored blood-red, and the many deaths are shown in gruesome detail for shallow shock factor. The deaths also exist to get under your skin, desensitizing you to suicide at a record-breaking speed. If I had to live in a world where suicide is legal, enforced, and considered unimportant to the justice system, I wouldn’t want to live in it either."

"This show may have redeeming qualities: the music adds suspense, the animation is mostly acceptable, and it has an intriguing premise, but every positive aspect is doused in an impenetrable layer of poison. Babylon is an abyss with nothing at the bottom but despair and hopelessness. It gaslit me into believing its ponderings on suicide were of substance and worth reading into. Perhaps it is because I am in a valley as I write this, but analyzing Babylon made me contemplate suicide as a valid cure to a life of struggling against that roller coaster. I’m sorry this is not like my other reviews, but someone needed to warn people about this vile sack of shit. It’s about time I put this out of my mind for good. I think I’ll go outside today and enjoy the wonderful and beautiful things the world has to offer. Maybe later I will watch a comedy or a relaxing slice-of-life."

"NOTE: If you have Depression, Bipolar Disorder, experienced suicidal thoughts, or a history of self-harm, please do not watch Babylon. If you are currently having suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255."

What's the difference in euthanasia (probably better phrased as "assisted suicide" in these cases, as euthanasia was traditionally for immense physical pain and suffering, not because someone is depressed) versus suicide, really? Doctor pats you on the head, decides you're fit to die, and gasses you or whatever he does. I've seen loads of cases where the person didn't have some horrific illness and they chose to have someone help them commit suicide, in many cases, through legal means. If you're "sane" enough to go through with euthanasia, and you're not on your deathbed or with a horrible condition, then you're "sane" enough to commit suicide, I would think. Obviously, if suicide is legalized, then euthanasia is as well. That's more freedom, and people do ponder that kind of thing, regardless of how silly a suicide law may sound. Whether someone would have the urge to stop you in spite of the law is irrelevant. So many people are such rule followers that a large percentage probably would abide by these laws because they come from an authority. Suicide also isn't glorified. That one character embodies rather Freudian ideas about sex and death and also the harlot from Revelations. She tempts people into suicide through immense pleasure and functions as an accelerant to get the law passed. It's certainly not considered a good thing according to the series, lmao. I just don't understand, suicidal or not, how this would be your takeaway. lol at the suicide warning too. I would assume people who have had suicidal tendencies and don't really want to die, would not think, "Wow, maybe I should kill myself," from watching this, though maybe they'd rather not watch things related to suicide. Clearly, the harlot is forcing their hand into killing themselves! It's only because that review is buried that it's not getting marked negatively. :P

Edit: I'm going all in on Skinner being the hobo in episode 3. Especially with the way episode 8 is further putting us inside of Skinner's ecofriendly shoes. Then they'll do the Scooby Doo unmasking after they save the world.