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>people still don't get it
"Kill Me Baby" was an allegory for the relationship between the West, mostly the United States, and Japan. Evidence for this can be seen throughout, especially in the anime. Let me explain for those unfamiliar.
Sonya represents your typical westerner, blond hair/blue eyes, the works. Yasuna represents Japan and Japanese people. The way these two interact really shows the allegorical message. You'll notice that whenever Yasuna uses a traditional Japanese method for solving a problem, Sonya will relentlessly berate her. This represents the western attacks on Japanese culture they perceive to be odd or uncivilised, and forcing themselves onto Japan. Yasuna attempting to be friendly towards Sonya, or trying to be like her is met with extreme violence, representing the wars of the West to keep a rising Japan out of their place in the sun. More direct references to specific wars include episode 2, when they have to fight a bear. Yasuna and Sonya win this fight, loosely by working together, but Yasuna is the biggest player by far. This, of course, is a reference to the Russo-Japanese War, a particularly proud victory for the Japanese. World War II is referenced several times, the most notable being when Yasuna and Sonya go fishing. Yasuna's expertise but overall failure and Sonya's overconfidence represent the several naval battles of the war.
Agiri and the unused character also have parts to play in the overall metaphor as well. Agiri being a Japanese citizen working with the West, which is ultimately unhelpful and only inconveniences the average Japanese citizen. The unused character is a representation of weeaboos, or other such people. They have no place in Japanese society, yet they continue to try to force their way on, leading to failure. They can never truly be Japanese.
There are many other examples.
"Kill Me Baby" may be one of, if not the most metaphorical and anti-western pieces of media I have ever seen from any nation.
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>>154877856
>Sonya represents your typical westerner, blond hair/blue eyes
The bullshit starts below this line.
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I'm not reading this shit. If you're joking it's tl;dr, if you're serious take your pretentious ass back to whatever hipster infested hellhole you crawled out of.
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>>154877856
This post is an example that some people shouldn't get off their meds.
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but what about the lady who got arrested for weed
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> "Kill Me Baby" may be one of, if not the most metaphorical and anti-western pieces of media I have ever seen from any nation.
Stopped reading right here
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can someone write a quick tl;dr please
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>>154878803
tl;dr
it's anime about cute girls doing cute things with trivially deep hidden meaning
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>>154878803
tl;dr kmb is an anti-west metaphor where characters represent the Japanese or the West.
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>>154878803
The West is evil and Japan is good
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6/10, kinda bothered me
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>>154877856
I actually laughed. Thanks.
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>tfw to inteligent too think criticely about anime
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>anon takes anime seriously
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>anon doesn't
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>>154877856
KMB was an excellent slap-stick anime. Stop bullying them.
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>>154877856
What?
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>>154877856
>anon spent all this time writing his wall of text just for it to fall off to page 10 immediately, after eliciting a mild chuckle in maybe two anons
didn't even read it lol
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>>154880056
you didn't even sage
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Actually made me think.
It's no different to literary critics analyzing a piece of work from a perspective the author never intended, which isn't illegitimate.
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I'd like to make sure, but this is just a form of that other copypasta, correct?
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So you thought Kill Me Baby was just innocent, silly fun? Think again. It is, in fact, the deepest anime of the last 15 years, providing a daring and shocking insight in the human psyche.
Enter Sonya and Yasuna, their outward appearance being similar to ordinary japanese school girls, their characters and interactions however resembling the protagonists of plays and novels, by Camus, Beckett and Sarte, both trapped in existential loneliness, the abusive and destructive nature of their bond symbolizing the eternal conflict between the Freudian "Es" (the raw, primitive force of life, Yasuna) and the "Ich" (Sonya's defensive, realistic and rational nature).
Agiri, as the archetypical "Ueber-Ich" controls their interaction from a distance, her ninja magic symbolizing society's moral fibre, which has a dampening, smoothening effect on the eternal conflict between the Es and the Ich.
Thus, the three characters' interwoven personalities are metaphors for the mental processes which take place within the mind of a single individual. Yasuna illustrates this philosophical principle by splitting herself in three, in episode 4. The three "Yasunas" act like exaggerated segments of her own personality, and seen in this light, Sonya, Yasuna and Agira, as representatives of the Es, Ich and Ueber-Ich respectively, possess the same amount of comical exaggeration and simplification, added to the archetypes that define their split personalities.
The "unused character" symbolizes God. Modern man, having no use for a higher power, assumed divine power and became God himself, symbolized by Yasuna taking the Unused Character's place and usurping her characteristics.
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Sanya is Russian.
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