Date: 29 Jul 2010 09:49 pm (UTC)
starlady: Roy from FMA: "you say you want a revolution" (roy)
From: [personal profile] starlady
Nope, Hokkaidou. Her parents are dairy farmers (hence her cow avatar).

What stands out in this case is that Arakawa's parallax acts as a kind of exception to the rule, showing how rare it is, otherwise, for pop-culture animanga to question those wartime/post-war myths.

Yes, exactly. Which I think is where your example of the Jefferson/Hemmings miniseries is inexact--there are precious few anime and manga that deal directly with the war (Barefoot Gen and Grave of the Fireflies stand out, but those don't question the received view of the war), and FMA is notable because it does take a nuanced, realistic view of war and because it does question the received views. But because that nuanced view is set in a secondary world, the issue of allegory does crop up--I don't think it's an allegory, but I've read a few interviews in which people do raise that question. (I'm kind of reminded of JRR Tolkien being asked and denying that LotR was an allegory for the Great War.)
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