The Leader · review
State capitalism in china is very successful. so successful that the government is facing a paradox: how can it keep calling itself the communist party when the youth is so focused on making money and showing their elevated consumer status ? This anime is the answer: 1. make the leader a cool and trendy philosopher (clothing, music), keep the grit, drop the science. 2. draw the leader as an exotic individual, attractive but not chinese: the chinese cannot be universal, they shall be specific 3. don't dive into the study, do not explain. criticism shall stay manageable by emerging only from the gifted few 3. insist on social status, virtueand membership
4. kowtow to the new leaders who ditch the internationale and administer special treatment to the special people
a recipe to raise communism from the dead: all fashionable and brainless
this thematic was mostly treated with CGI and a few scenes were hand drawn. the animation is cheap, the colors are good.
knowing the science of the capital, i could appreciate that anime as a refresher on the chronology.
episode 3 features aerith's theme from final fantasy VII, so there's that.