I mean I “got” it (and I’m not referring to the acute early onset schizophrenia induced by listening to an hour and a half description of how insanely destructive capital has been to Japanese society sandwitched by sponsor plugs with a mid roll ad and plug in the description) but like the whole thing was delivered so inoffensively and with such neutral tone that I genuinely couldn’t clock if the cringey gamer metaphor conclusion was imploring the viewer to join a party and tear down the state or smash foreign idols or even just recognize your insignificance and reproduce your class.

Reading the comments didn’t clear anything up either because it was just a bunch of corrections about the director of Kirby games and true sexual pathology havers yelling “do xenogears”.

Like are they an anime trot? Amano/namura thought? Marxist-Leninist-Tominoist? I can’t come up with a banderite Japanese analog but you get the idea. Like are they even on some kind of political spectrum their essay can be set in or is their whole deal “this capitalism things not lookin’ so hot fellas”?