i fuckin hate that “anime was a mistake” meme because its almost exclusively used for shitty niche incest animes no one gives a shit about or like, you saw a gif of a girls boob bouncing but yet no one was going on about how western animation is a mistake when you look at shit like sausage party and south park and family guy (which are mainstream compared to That Random Anime Gifset of An Obtuse Upskirt Shot That Literally No One Knows The Name To)
Don’t talk shit about South Park, it may come off as some raunchy show with no depth, but each episode actually has a real meaning to it such as not carrying about race, accepting homosexuals, accepting religions, and some of those were made 10+ years ago.
when i was in the 3rd grade we had this weird PE teacher named mr denis (and by that i mean he used to pull up his gym shorts to his waist with a baggy t-shirt tucked in, knee-high socks, full tom selleck mustache, perfect bald head but thick hair on the sides) and almost all the time he’d make us play this game he called ghostbusters dodgeball where he’d BLAST the ghosbusters theme song in the gym so that the whole school could hear it and he’d set up two giant tents at either end of the gym and basically the point was to play normal dodgeball but if you hit someone on the opposite team, that opposite team member had to go be a ghost in the tent and if they wanted to escape they’d either have to slither their hands under the tent and hope they catch a dodgeball rolling by or sacrifice one of their living team members by snatching their legs/hand/feet and dragging them into the tent in exchange for the ghost to go back onto the court and continue playing
This scene still breaks my heart each and every single time I watch it.
Azula was a terrible, horrible person. She would have set the world aflame and laughed over the broken carcass of her brother.
But she was fourteen.
She was so ruined and twisted by her childhood and by her nation, driven to insanity by the expectations placed upon her.
Azula was bad and yet I can’t help but feel so terribly sorry for her.
“I don’t have sob stories like all of you.”
SHE WAS FUCKING FOURTEEN WHAT
“My own mother….thought I was a monster. She was right, of course, but it still hurt.”
actually, i think one of the shows strengths is that they didn’t shy away from what a horrible tragedy this was. even though she was clearly a villain and did unspeakably awful things, this scene was still framed as sad. there was no celebrating- they just look at her sadly.
the music for the battle that leads up to this moment is sad too- it’s an epic battle, visually probably one of the biggest things done in the entire series, and they could have played it with thumping, energetic, dangerous music. but instead it’s quiet and somber. because the whole scenario is heartbreaking, and they know it.
i think the fact that a kid’s show had so much respect for it’s viewers and their ability to understand the complexity of this situation is what makes avatar great.
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