I don’t know, maybe because the country in that story represents progress not politics.
Let’s say aliens invade earth, all the countries on earth join into a singular government to fight the extraterrestrial invasion. Would you say that fight for survival is political only because a world government exists?
There is no way to tell a story about a country without talking politics. The only thing that differentiates one country from another is how they do things. These “ways of doing things” are called policies. Deciding on which policies are good and which are bad is known as politics, fairly straightforward. If you are not talking about politics, you may as well not talk about the countries in your story.
As for your question, of course you can write a story in a way where there is an abstract faceless “higher-up” figure, we’ve seen these, but the moment you try to create an actual character to represent the government, it will unavoidably get political when you see that character interacting with others in the story.
IIRC, the overarching themes of personal freedom and being yourself against authoritarian/puritan environment could be considered political.
I would argue the main themes of the show are believing in yourself, doing what you believe is right even when others oppose you and the abstract progress vs stagnation (do you take the risk and go out and experience the world or stay home and not get hurt but also not experience nothing). Those things can be political but I don’t think the show presented those ideas through a political lens and instead presented them as ideological beliefs.
I don’t remember there being any politics or gay stuff so OP wants Gurren Lagann. Honestly not a bad choice.
They literally built a country, love, how the hell did you miss the politics?
I don’t know, maybe because the country in that story represents progress not politics.
Let’s say aliens invade earth, all the countries on earth join into a singular government to fight the extraterrestrial invasion. Would you say that fight for survival is political only because a world government exists?
There was a whole arc where different government officials argued over how to resolve the situation. There was a coup and everything!
I guess I remember less about Gurren Lagann that I thought.
yeah i remember a completely different show
There is no way to tell a story about a country without talking politics. The only thing that differentiates one country from another is how they do things. These “ways of doing things” are called policies. Deciding on which policies are good and which are bad is known as politics, fairly straightforward. If you are not talking about politics, you may as well not talk about the countries in your story.
As for your question, of course you can write a story in a way where there is an abstract faceless “higher-up” figure, we’ve seen these, but the moment you try to create an actual character to represent the government, it will unavoidably get political when you see that character interacting with others in the story.
IIRC, the overarching themes of personal freedom and being yourself against authoritarian/puritan environment could be considered political.
Also Leeron. Just Leeron
I would argue the main themes of the show are believing in yourself, doing what you believe is right even when others oppose you and the abstract progress vs stagnation (do you take the risk and go out and experience the world or stay home and not get hurt but also not experience nothing). Those things can be political but I don’t think the show presented those ideas through a political lens and instead presented them as ideological beliefs.
Fair enough, I forgot about Leeron.
Fair points, don’t disagree on themes.
Will disagree on political vs ideological as I would believe they are the same thing.
Leeron is iconic.