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1 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00 [ImgOps] [iqdb]
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Can we talk about Japan's unhealthy glamorization of high-rise communist blocks and the absurdly decadent public structures in anime?

The architectural paradigms at work in anime for the last 2 decades seem to be the strong promotion of government-funded urban population centers and public structures to the exclusion of genuinely fresh design perspectives in terms of the "futuristic city" so many genres of anime spawn from.

It's a little annoying to me that any "fictional city" I come across in anime seems to operate on the ideal that a current city was razed and someone then let a single team of architects define every available open space with a single minimalist design, which seems far more analogous to communist trends of the 1970's than to modern-day city planning. There's no problem with imagining this in a fictional story, but it seems like it's all I see in anime these days. How can cute girls be so enthusiastic about living in places that seem so oppressive and brutalist?

I understand that art-directors and designers like to make the setting re-enforce the feeling of the story itself, and a lot of the exaggerated design is based on evoking a certain feeling, and of course there are many outliers, but i still think its an oddly overrepresented style and I'm disappointed studios aren't a little more creative.

I'd love to hear an actual anime/architecture expert's take on this
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2 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
Some of the stuff in Madoka Magica looked fresh, like Madoka's house.
>brutalism

>oppressive

Those aren't related.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67
For example, isn't this beautiful? It looks so natural, in a way.

Also, while commie blocks are boring-looking, what would you rather have?
A. A mansion right now
B. The guarantee that you will never ever be homeless in your life, no matter what, and that no one you love or care about will ever be homeless in their lives either.
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3 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>2
That looks terrible. And I'd choose A.
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4 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
I find there is a fine line that you have to balance upon when you're thinking about designing commie blocks/structures for a lot of people. Depending on the setting, a variation of Kowloon Walled City would be 1000x better than any ``modern'' and ``safe'' commieblock. Obviously, in real life both are shit to live in but you have to let the viewer feel the romanticized thoughts about our figurative Kowloon in the same way that people that have lived in the hood or whereever like to reminisce about living in bad conditions.
You need to convey a feeling of warmth when thinking back about that dump the characters used to live in.

If that is your goal obviously, in the end the architecture boils down to the feelings the director want to convey. Unless he didn't give a shit about that aspect at all, then it may or may not just suck in the settings department
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5 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>3
>And I'd choose A.

Just out of curiosity, why are you so short-sighted?
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6 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>5
Probably because he doesn't trust your guarantee.
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7 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
Fuck off /pol/tard.
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8 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>7
Does merely being anti-communist a /pol/tard make?
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9 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>8
No it makes you a respectable human being


ps fuck commies
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10 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>9
Hating freedom makes you respectable?
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11 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00 [ImgOps] [iqdb]
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>>10
>freedom
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12 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00 [ImgOps] [iqdb]
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>>10
holy shit look at this retard
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13 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>11
>>12
I like when people are free.
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14 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>13
great, you must hate communism too then
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15 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>7
You fuck off, we run this shit.
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16 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
you are a fucking idiot, how is your picture glamorizing commieblocks? It's gray and bleak and it's supposed to be this way
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17 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
That's just how the architecture looks in East Asian cities.

tbh it's better than giant suburbs
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18 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00 [ImgOps] [iqdb]
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We have no regrets.

>>17
Well, basically anywhere except consumerist west. Everyone living in a McMansion simply isn't sustainable - doing so results really shitty conflicts of interest in property value bubble scam. Think building codes in silly valley or london.
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19 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>18
how did I know they were slavs before reading the filename
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20 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>18
>we

Talk for yourself, biatch.
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21 Anonymous 1969-12-31T17:00:00
>>18
the girl in the middle is really cute

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