Idol Jihen is, imho, a post feminist anime. I use this word to

From these the idead of the good guys party are built: economically they take a third view between capitalism and comunism, here there is no central authority but the priority of the individual (not the state) is the comunity, not making money.
The characters are feminists. The women here fight to be able to decide if they want to work. We saw this both in episode whatever, where we also see the kids (this is important) fight, and with Shizuka, where she goes against her father's wishes. And what is her father if not the patriarchy? It is important to notice that the bad guy in the kids/mums episode was not a cartoon villain. Everything he said had a solid logic to it, with which you could agree. Idol Jihen is not strawmaning, it doesn't want to, it attacks what is actually some people think.

This anime doesn't want to attack males because they are male, they are attacked when they are wrong. The girls' party has a male member. We are told that some younger members of the Gourai part agrees with the girls. In general, the positive male figure will be below the woman, he knows, accept, and likes this.
It's important these males are young. It's not coincidence that the only woman of the bad party we see is old. The complete message here is a struggle between the old patriarchy made of fathers and a new youhg matriarchy supported by the kids as well. We see this in episode 11 where we are shown the mc dancing. These scene, exaggerated on purpose, is there to show us what we were told before about the idols being tehe light of the world. I don't know if you know Bocca di Rosa, but it reminded me of that a lot.

There are then the positions taken by the anime. "Hammer the nail that sticks out" is seen as childish and negative. The girls, all from different sub-cultures (space nerd, gyarus, etc.), are all friends. Kinda like Senran Kagura's "Where good accepts few, evil accepts all". It's normal people who don't like different people. And who are the normals doing? they make fun of girls for silly things, complete bullshit, stereotypes, and so on. There is also an evident dislike for the media, for the press.
When Gourai's boss tells you that he wants to ban idol politicians because you can't do two things at once, the anime takes the other position. Politics is then something that you do as a second job. It follows a responsibilization of the citizen, who now is aware that he could, and thus should, be the one involved in politics instead of letting a politician do it for him. A democracy even more total than the greek one. Everything is narrated in a way that makes you forget all of this started as a fight against corruption, and now you focus only on the idols fate. You, the viewer, is then the same as the dumb male that is part of the mass and you should feel bad. The last episode remarks that the big bad actually believes in democracy. He may tell his own side of the truth, but he actually accept what people decide. What do we get them from an anime where the mass, the police, and powerful politicians managed to defeat democracy, letting the illegal, extra parlamentar, idols to perform?
And why was is it presented a good thing? the answer here is obvious, it's because you the viewer were part of the crowd that let the idols march against the wishes of the population, of the milions who voted in peace. And as such, you are biased and blinded, to you what mattered was letting your rulers I mean cute idols win.

So, it's shit?

>>155106966
Yes and OP is trying to justify his fapping to 3DPD Femdom BDSM porn.

>>155106966
Yeah. But Natsuki is a fucking cute.

>>155106966
No it isn't.

>>155107170
No I am not.

>>155107347
Yes she is.

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But at the end Koizumi was right. Idols can't be politicians because they will forget to do their duty because they are too busy being idols. The idols only want power and "help" the community but when they are needed, they will ignore that if there is an idol concert going. In the last episode you see the city in chaos and what the idols will do to solve it? Nothing. They don't even care.
Women aren't better than men in this anime. Men pity women to the point of letting do whatever they want to do and you see that in how Koizumi lifted the ban and called for votations again even though he knew they were going to be re-elected. You can't call the masses a bunch of idiotic men. The masses are ALWAYS portrayed as a bunch of idiot people.

If anything this anime failed at portraying a positive view of women in politics and since this anime wasn't that popular that won't be a problem but it's still a failure.

>>155108410
>Men pity women to the point of letting do whatever they want to do
You are falling for the post feminist trick I talked before. This is not something I came up with, it's a tested and used device in the genre.

>Idols can't be politicians because they will forget to do their duty because they are too busy being idols.
The idols were too busy being idols because the concert was the only way they had to fight back the idol politician ban.

>If anything this anime failed at portraying a positive view of women in politics
The anime never wanted to do that. What it wanted to do was portray all the problems of the democratic system. The concept itself of idols being politicians is against democracy perversions in itself, because it is the natural but exaggerated ending point of what we already see.


Women achieved what they wanted. The mums can work, the idols got the power, that a town is figuratively burning doesn't matter.

>>155108733
But they are not better than the males.
They get away with everything they want but not by working hard hard but instead by screaming the loudest and the male (Koizumi) knows this perfectly well and it's the one letting do what they want because he gave up.
For women to be the ones in charge like you said in your original post they must be aware of their own power but they are only pushing forward by instinct and that makes them no different than a cute animal that's being spoiled by the actual human bean.
You're even told at the end they are no match to the previous generation of idols because maybe, they actually knew what they were doing.

>>155109039
They are not match for the older idols yet. This is what they were told.

>they are only pushing forward by instinct
Not really. They are pushed forward by their desire to see other people smile and by their belief in their own power, but that's not instinct. The girls made plans and acted on them. Sometimes they fucked up, panicked and so on, but they are not emotionless robots.

>They get away with everything they want but not by working hard hard but instead by screaming the loudest
That's were the anti-populist message is from. What the girls are doing is not good. It works, but you could easily tell the story from the side to depict Koizumi as the good guy.

The girls are better than the old male because they won, they have started to convert him as well, but the story is not presenting it as something. Or to be accurate, it's presenting it as positive because there is a meta fuck you to the idol fan. It's also why you are never shown that the girls know about their own power, because *you* don't see it. You only get a hint of it when you consider the blonde girl that tells the two main girls what to do, forgot her name.