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Fun fact, there actually do exist a Japanese politician who lobbies against censorship in jav and doujins etc called Yamada Taro. Correct me if I'm wrong but I remember him winning a seat in the national diet or somewhere sometime ago.
Hasan: "So Attack on Titan..." Oh, he's gonna talk about how political it is, the fascist imagery and all that... Hasan: "...is a mecha anime." Aaand the anime community goes apeshit.
Weird how it counts as controversial, because Mother's Basement also said the same thing (and everyone seems to love him), dunno which of them said it first tho
@@Diego-zz1df deadass all mecha anime revolve around some kind of world power adopting a revolutionary weapon/technology which the characters utilise to shift the world climate. I'd say what differentiates the genre from other power fantasies is how much focus is placed on the militarised value of the technology that only certain people can control
Garnt coping so hard to admit that Oda is a leftists lmaooo Not a single "history fan" would just hang a Che Guevara poster on his office lol And Hasan is right, there's a loooot of references through the anime
@@Tygrave The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological Yeah, luffy isn't a terrorist lol
@@sarov7658 I hope one day you have the ability to realize how political it is to try to define "true freedom". Y'know something philosophers and politicians have written and spoken about for as long as there's been humans
Yeah they really came across poorly in this episode. Laughing at literal facts that anyone with an ounce of media literacy could figure out. "Hurr durr OP is just long arm pirate man punch"
I'm pretty sure they were laughing cuz it was such a wild take even if they do agree with it. Literally, they never said they disagreed. They even agreed to some points. They just never heard such blunt takes like hassan has, so I guess their first instinct was to laugh lol
@@mura_saki that, and maybe they were afraid to lean one way or the other politically by agreeing with Hasan, since they're not a political podcast and stuff. probably the bois were just playing it safe
@@cavie034 Don't pretend like shonen isn't the most profitable genre in all of anime/manga. It would not be as global or successful of an industry without shonen. So if that's all he watches, that doesn't make him NOT a weeb.
I like to imagine it as hasan going "I'll hold your beer, also gonna give a speech about progressive praxis just try to stop me nerds" but I don't really watch hasan so that image is based purely on what I think is funny, and also on reversing the "hold my beer" phrase
@@MorbiusBlueBalls Yeah, they basically allowed him to say his views and opinions. Which was great. Also nice that they challenged his opinions a little, just enough it felt like for Hasan to elaborate. And ultimately, whether they agree with those opinions or not is irrelevant. Because what they believe shouldn't matter, since their opinions are theirs, and ours should be ours.
Around 26:39 where Hasan talks about wage slave. I think he'll have a blast learning about some Japanese call themselves "Syachiku" (社畜) or "company livestock". It is a self-mockery term for Japanese who are getting treated horribly by companies as if they are livestock and not human. Says a lot about some working condition in Japan.
Or the black company work culture, and how the asian collectivist mentality off load the society failing into the family; e.g hikikomori for the jobless and how japan just round up all the homeless people to relocate into a out of sight district.
@@noirto2 True! Black company culture is something I see in Japan, China, and Taiwan. Taiwanese often complain about bad company owner who doesn't know the expertise into certain fields and is very stingy about paying a good salary to those employees. China has 996 (9am-9pm, 6 days/week). I am certain if Japan use their 1% of their technological advanced resources, they can create remote works that even hikikomoris can work in, but they are also very slow at adapting new ideas.
"Why would you root for the bad guy" Hasan confirmed non weeb. Everyone knows Japanese media usually makes the villain incredibly sexy and charismatic.
in all seriousness though I think he just watches more things than most people in general. So he's seen a lot of anime compared to the average person but his watch habits still may not be as weighted ratio-wize as the average weeb (though he is a weeb of course 😉)
Hasans take about One Piece is completely correct, Oda is super into politics and is a massive history buff. He bakes in so much politics in One Piece. The literal main message is about being free and what "freedom" really is.
it's cuz some fans like to say dumb shit like "OP ISN'T POLITICAL IT'S A FANTASY STOP TRYING TO SHOVE YOUR SJW BS DOWN OUR THROATS" when there is clearly political themes in the series like bro did we watch the same anime?
@@mirelle_mojena well, when you have people like Hasan attempting to claim fighting against a world government that rules by offering safety in place of freedom as left wing, it’s pretty easy to write it off as the political ravings of an idiot.
Left: Change is good. We like new things. Right: Things are fine the way they are. In fact, things were better yesterday. One Piece: We need to change this world so radically that we come full circle and end up 900 years in the past.
@@anothun9216 Yeah, wtf is that guy talking about LMAO. The right is against exploitation of children? They literally are for removing child labor laws and age of consent laws are against libertarianism
@Noah Which is why all those stories of Catholic priests *not* molesting anybody make headlines. Or, conservatives looking for ways around child labour laws.
Oda: This revolutionary guy is modeled after Fidel Castro, his ship is named after Fidel's ship. You have tribes fighting for their land. You have doctor's being taken hostage by the government to artificially inflate the value of medicine, you have slavery out in the open, next to the literal house of the elites, who use the land as their playground. And spoilers: Luffy is the literal embodiment of Freedom dreamed up by the oppressed. Garnt: Coincidence.
Funny how socialism has destroyed countries just like the evil elites do in the anime. And also how socialism hates the freedom to be able to own private property. Seems Oda is very uninformed on politics and probably just makes the case for right-libertarianism more than socialism.
Lmao "One Piece is about a funny rubber guy having fun with his friends" -- average apolitical fan It's amazing how treating "political" as a poisonous word can keep someone from seeing the obvious
I'm pretty sure that they agree (you'd have to be pretty dumb to not see it), but can't agree too much/be too outspoken or else they'd be alienating their conservative fanbase (which I mean fuck conservatives but also understandable they wouldn't wanna politicize their content ig)
this episode is funny cause hasan just says obvious stuff like "one piece is political" and "attack on titan is a mecha" and the other three lose their minds
@@Shadowserpant00 i'm not even a big proponent of the whole "all art is inherently political" thing and i vastly prefer interpersonal themes to political ones but one piece is literally a story about toppling the government 😭
Joey: Eva isn't a mecha, its a scifi Joey...those aren't mutually exclusive.Being one doesn't make it so it cannot be the other. In fact, 99% of mecha are scifi.
Oda literally changed his art style quite considerably from how he naturally draws it so he could tackle all these tough topics while still making it a happy and goofy vibe. It’s absolutely that deep lmao
I highly suspect they were intentionally playing ignorant to lead Hassan on with his points without jeopardizing their apolitical image in an effort to maintain fan base. While it’s reasonable to think: in that case, why would they invite someone like Hassan in the first place? It could very well be that they simply wanted Hassan’s clout on their show but don’t want any consequences. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if the boys, especially Connor, secretly agrees with Hassan’s politics and just wanted him to do all the talking.
It was crazy that none of them saw that One Piece has many political views, and they really are that deep, loved this episode and guest definitely pays attention to his anime.
@@teasea546 well Hassan is pretty close to Ludwig and Connor is close to Ludwig. He also visited Japan with Sykkuno, so it only made sense to invite him. It might be that they want to remain apolitical for the audience, but I also wouldn't be surprised if they genuinely never thought about it. A lot of people can be apolitical in their normal lives, especially if they're living in a foreign country and so are sort of isolated from the politics of their own nation.
Totally agree with Hasan that One Piece is highly political lol. One of the many reasons the show resonated with me. Especially if you live in a country with a lot of tyranny and corruption, Luffy is an admirable icon because he does things his way not minding whoever he clashes with
Hasan is like a weeb who never actually talks about anime or watches anime related things on RUclips, he literally just watches anime and goes on with life. Its kinda cool to see.
😂😂 coming from a tall person: your legs get basically removed cause you dont sit on your legs and people have diffrent body ratios so hasan probably has tall legs and a normal upper body
The EVA argument is perfect The EVAs are just fleshy bloody titans and the metal acts like armor and BDSM gear to keep them contained and calm. The kids are just anti-anxiety pills to keep the EVAs nice and lucid
@nic sosa Take a step back for a second. You honest to god think this dude decided to go on some podcast to indoctrinate anime fans into leftist ideology via talking about anime plot lines. Doesn't this sound at least a tiny bit paranoid and insane to you?
To the point Hasan brought up about Luffy being Brazilian: part of Oda's regular character information he gives in Q&A columns is where characters would be from the real world and has said Luffy would be from Brazil.
@@kirkpatrikballares3291 I think on a stream when he got back to the US, Hasan said he’s planning to be back in Japan in June or something so fingers crossed they bring him back
@@emmityemmity6159 I know that Hasan is planning a 2nd trip, but regarding the boys guest throughout the years, only Chris Broad and Meilene have made more than 1 appearance, but theres definitely more they can squeeze out of Hasan aside from Anime, which is Memes in Politics etc, if Hasan isnt Available, I'll take Will Neff
As far as the politics in anime/manga thing goes, and whether or not the creators are aware of the history of the things they reference, or they're just throwing cool things, they are definitely almost always aware of the political ideas. Alotta people don't realize how deep the history of Japan goes in terms of leftist political movements, and how some of these authors/directors were either members of these movements, or had close relatives that were members, and taught them about their politics. And some of these movements are old. Like pre-WWI old. Some of them were around during the Meiji Revolution. It's pretty crazy. There's also the history of Indigenous Japanese (like the Ainu) fighting back against the government. Leftist politics and political movements are old in Japan, and many of the most respected creators in the industry are very aware of that part of Japan's history, as well as how it intersected with the history of political movements in other nations.
The Japanese Red Army had prominent members who fled Japan and joined the Palestinian Liberation movements. It's insane how deep that stuff really goes. Japan isn't the apolitical paradise so many Western anime/manga fans think it is.
Also its easy for people that dont write/make art to write off things as just meaningless or because it looks cool, like why the curtain is blue etc, but when good art is made, especially something as stand out as OP, the artist almost definitely has to put a lot of their soul into the art, so things they believe in and care about and make things in the art have meaning, the fact that the art says something makes it special and artists know that when they decide what to write about.
@@El_Bukis Every country has their own array of different political ideals unless they are authoritarian. But most are not as divided in their different politics as modern western politics.
It is interesting how Hasan didn't bring up the incredibly blatant anti war message at the end of the Chimera Ant arc in HxH, but he did say himself he hasn't seen it in ages.
@@johnthebarbarian The Nuke was more to show that human intellect trumps everything. Humans couldn’t beat the Ants by physical means but their intelligence can. More to do with humanity perseveres by intellectual means making them the apex species than a war message.
@@mijanhoque1740 It was about how much malice humans have and how we're monsters. In Chapter 298 there's literally the question "Were humans so different from ants?". This is after a monologue telling the reader about the horrors that was this bomb. Right after Netero blew up we get told that this bomb killed millions and there were efforts to ban it. The thesis statement for the entire Chimera Ant arc is literally about how horrible humans can be which culminates with Netero's words "You know nothing of the bottomless malice within the human heart".
Okay hold up, he was spittin with the One Piece is political take. I genuinely kept that in the back of my mind while binging it the entire time and thought “wait, this is literally a fight and abolish the corrupt government story.” And with so many references to both IRL and the story to actual ideals, I wouldn’t put it past oda to actually write it that way. I thought it was pretty obvious by the marine fort arc.
I heavily disagree. If you want to make the argument that it's political because of the tyrannical world government, then you'd have to admit it's also conspiratorial with the existence of the celestials. A shadowy cabal that rules the world through both overt and covert methods... I wouldn't read too much into it considering the negative implications that would have against Oda if it was intentional.
@@Akakiryuushinyeah but Star Wars Empire is based of the Nazis and Americas invasion of Vietnam. The Marines in One Piece I think are based on the British, American, and Duce Empires. Which makes sense why Dragon is based on the Cube revolution
Yeah it’s political but he says it’s leftist because that’s his side. He assumes that corrupt authoritarian government represents the right when it goes either way. To him facist dictators are the right. To people on the right fighting an overreaching government is a right leaning ideal
I feel like in a year or two Connor's gonna move to LA to be w the other streamers His connections will be more solidified, his audience will be bigger, and he's mentioned wanting to live in America. He also seems visibly bored in recent episodes. It's kinda sad to see but understandable.
@@prod.bipxlar8765 @prod. bipxlar! Connor always looks depressed LOL ,that's his resting bitch face , and the bois already talked about how much they'll hate living in L.A.
It's not a coincidence that many Japanese anime/manga have political subtexts. A lot of Japanese animators and drawers are very anti-war and some of them very influential in pacifist movement (i.e. Hayao Miyazaki, Osamu Tezuka and Eiichiro Oda)
It's weird to me how the boys laugh at Hasan when he said One Piece is political anime. The grand theme is clearly about power structure and social system. Slavery, power/knowledge, racism, weaponry, war, classism, and so on. 😂😂😂
As someone else said, I think it was their way of not taking a side in order to not piss off fans. All three boys have a large following in the US and Marxism is VERY taboo here. Like so much so that it's better if your a content creator, to just not talk about it unless you're like Hasan and are trying to appeal to a certain crowd.
@@Steve-xo5pq which is very funny cause Connor is very clearly leftist by American standards. If you pick up any of his sayings and occasional thought drops, he views a lot of right winged American things as fucked up lmao. It's also funny because the rest of the world is actually very far left and the conservative party in the UK for instance would be considered democrats in the US. SO occasionally, the boys will say something that is common to them, but to America, it can be controversial. It's a matter of perspective as the boys all come from countries that are far more left leaning than the US which is considered extremely right leaning. Again, American left parties are considered right wing in most countries.
@@Steve-xo5pq Being aware of any kind of political narrative and talk about Marxism is two different things, tho. You don't have to be a Marxist or talk about Marxism to discuss political issues. I think the boys just surprised (maybe that's why they laughed) someone casually break down One Piece storyline as a leftist narrative. They just not familiar with it, and I think Garnt also joined the conversation later on.
@@Steve-xo5pq yeah look what happened to mother's basement. He had to chill to a extent and catrter to the weebs first and formost. And thing is weebs or Otaku in Japan tend to be very politically apathetic.
Hasan on podcasts is very different to his solo stream self, on stream he’s constantly repeating basic Shit bc to him it’s what’s necessary to do that job, on podcasts he’s much more his loose natural self and is super funny and entertaining
@@amiracle3390 I think that is apt. I don't watch him and never cared about him, but from Connors IRL stream i gathered that the dude himself is cool, just don't need his content. Also i don't like his content for the most stupid reason, similar to Joey never watches overhyped stuff, i just don't like the huge streamers content. Didn't even know before the comments here that he does political stuff, which also does not interest me ^^
i love how like every kid raised in the middle east or north africa can universally remember watching captain tsubasa dubbed in their language growing up
As a 19 year old who also grew up in Turkey, the fact he mentioned he saw Tsubasa too was amazing. We also had this Korean anime called JangGeum’s Dream for some reason, but it slapped, the dub was so bad but amazing
I recently watched both seasons of JangGeum's dream and finished it just yesterday. Because I remember watching it as a kid on Yumurçak TV XD Kaptan Tsubasa animesi o kadar harika ki adamlar 10 dakika topla koşarken birbirlerine bağırıyorlar. O lanet olası futbol sahası ne kadar büyük 😅😂
OMG I've been searching for it for so long! THANK YOU❤ l watched it in Arabic dub when l was young but it didn't continue in the channel and l forgot the name
There's a lot of One Piece analysts that do actually understand them like GLR, Ohara, Randy Troy, Joygirl or Artur. It's just the more casual enjoyer like Garnt and Joey would not see them and that's the beauty of One Piece. It appeals to casuals and nerds/weebs. There's also literature geeks like Merphy or Melontree who also discussed those morals. The only difference is that they discussed it within the context of philosophical writings or thematic writings instead of politically.
Because these guys are more akin to comedians than some literary analysts. They try to gaslight him saying it’s not that deep but Hasan understands how blatantly wrong they are and doesn’t concede.
They're talking about the superficial aesthetic characteristics of what makes a mecha but Hasan is right if you think about mecha tropes and mechanics. The mech is a tool that characters use to fight eachother, they act simultaneously like a vehicle but also like protective armor or an extention of their bodies, they give the characters the ability to fight at a larger scale while keeping their anthropomorphic essence and personalities (which would be lost if it were, say tanks), each mecha has its own special ability, I mean it's all there, they're just made of flesh. It makes no sense to cut off the comparison at superficial stuff like "do you get in it or does it form from you?" or comparing it to Ratatouille. It's the tropes.
AoT is not mecha, they are augmented body part, you don't enter in a robot, you create it from your cell Also evangelion is mecha with biomech technology
mecha genre inherently just means mechanical, if these tools are not made of mechanical it really is not mecha at all, moreover if it's flesh / entire being. But if you said AoT should be in the subgenre of mecha, then sure I'll agree, they're different but they can still be in the same umbrella term
@@TomesTheAmazing so by that logic Kingdom is mecha anime? Mecha is mecha, if it doesn't have giant robots (which is not the same than overgrowth of your body) it's not mecha
hearing about all these "one piece takes" by Hasan, I now understand why One Piece is such an amazing franchise; the creator was literally inspired by important real-world historical events. he took the hot points and cooked them in his manga
Isn't it political like, from the first chapters? Like hinting at the police structure being corrupt from the get-go, police brutality and abuse of power and all
The problem is that to a lot of weebs "political" means bad, it's fucking ridiculous. I knew media literacy was dead when i saw someone call the new Gundam series shit because it got "political".
Gundam was always political since the beginning - it can’t “get political”. A video game like Mario can get political simply because it’s plots are really apolitical and literally about Mario/Peach/Bowser. Gundam was always political.
Never heard of HasanAbi before this episode. The double whammy of his political analysis of One Piece and Vinland Saga already made me interested in his content. Media analysis is so fucking hard. You can't ever precisely know what the intentions of an author were, but it's always important to think about the message the media conveys; intentionaly or not. Publically publishing art is always, at some level, a political act. This doesn't mean that you can't enjoy it at surface level or that all art is propoganda. However, art is made by persons that have ideals, motivations, principles, tastes etc. When they create art these predispositions will be inexorably intertwined with the product. This fact alone warrants a political analyis of most art. And I think Hasan shows this beautifully during this episode. Props!
Just letting you know, there are haters who doesn’t like him just cause of his political takes. Do proper research and try out his content first before deciding. Some of his haters are as insane as Tate fans.
He’s great i enjoy his streams a lot. If you would like to give his content a go you should start by watching some of his RUclips videos on subjects that interest you Hasanabi (main channel) Hasan (second channel)
This episode flew by so fast and I feel like they still have so much to talk about. This could be two times the duration and I'd honestly be down. Part 2 when
Hasan's take on AoT being mecha is exactly what I thought when I was watching it, he's so fucking right about that. The boys' reaction to it is hilarious.
think calling it a mecha is very much taking the show at face value, like yeah it looks like people piloting flesh mechas, but I don't think that qualifies it to be sorted under a genre it wasn't made to be. Comparing it to Eva is interesting but just because Eva has a plot point where it turns out the mechas have not actually been mechanical this whole time, doesn't mean that the definition of mecha has to be changed, or that Eva has to be stripped of the mecha tag. Eva was made to be a mecha show, aot wasn't. Think it's simple as that This feels like a "is cereal soup" argument
I got to the AoT argument...and immediately went, no, its more a magical girl genre than mecha...and then I remembered that gundam is centered around teenagers who are (likely or explicitly) psychic/have special powers that enable them to become Gundam pilots...so ive convinced myself further that mecha and magical girls are the same thing and if AoT sits at both, then the military drama aspects push it as being a mecha. I thought I was free from AoT....and now I keep thinking of narrative parallels 😢
@@Mellow_Yellow13in England in school especially, it was kind of a cringe thing to do, not sure why but it always just felt weird speaking another language, maybe potentially outing yourself as an outsider or maybe cause it’s considered a subtle flex? Either way, it was always just cringe for the speaker.
I'm surprised they haven't heard of the term wage slave, it's pretty ubiquituous in most places I see talking about work and living. Maybe it's a US thing, but it's working a job that doesn't pay you enough to live, just enough to survive. So say all of your money goes to Rent, to Food, to Utilities, and then nothing is left over for anything else but basic survival needs. Then, you work over 40 hours a week at this job, so you work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, plus an additional weekend or possibly both weekends, and you never have time to actually do anything. Days your not working is spent just catching up on maintenance of your house and person, so your entire life becomes just completely engulfed by working and spending money to survive.
Sometimes it's less than 8 per day/40 per week, because that means you are not entitled to benefits like Medicare for the illnesses you gained from doing the job.
It's shocking to me that people don't know what the term means. It's the only reason,why slavery was abolished. The "free market" was way cheaper and more lucrative for them. You just let people compete against each other for jobs and press the wages down to nothing.
@@Sultansekte Same deal as "decolonised africa" - a bunch of bullshit. Europe and America never let Africa go, just look at how France still maintains its Empire economically with the CFA Franc, even though today It doesn't show up on the map anymore. Imperialism today comes not from the barrel of the gun, but the banks. It's even more lucrative to have these nations nominally independent: the imperial masters can continue to exploit the workforce and resources of these countries without having to build the infrastructure to maintain it themselves.
Idk how the boys watch/read Enies Lobby, saw the massacre of Ohara, saw Akainu's extreme sense of absolute justice, watched Luffy tell Usopp to burn the WG flag and declare war and the go "apolitical, totally apolitical"
Probably because they watched early One piece when they were still in their late teens to early 20s and are so focused onto consuming anime and japan culture
It's genuinely insane. Now I don't know wether Oda is a genuine communist, but I do think he clearly is a leftist. Literally all the "good thing" in his work are leftist ideals.
What a banger of an episode. Can't stand weebs proclaiming that they're unpolitical and that we should keep any politics (they always mean identity politics) out of all conversations and should just chill bro. This was lit.
someone on reddit before said code geass was neither left or right and not political at all. just pure action. i almost offed myself after reading that
@oliv_r in chat I know, right? One Piece is obviously political in a substantial sense, not a stylistic sense. All it takes is too look at the allusions and references. Luffy's father Monkey D. Dragon is the leader of the Revolutionary Army, his ship is named Granma, the same name as Fidel Castro's shop, and his birthday is October 8, the same date of the October Revolution. Not only that but having a framed portrait of Che Guevara on your wall is quite a lot different from having a Che Guevara T-shirt. Another is the Gorosei/Five Elders who are at the near top of the World Government. All 5 of them are visually based on important political leaders from history, namely: Itagaki Taisuke, Abraham Lincoln, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mahatma Gandhi, and Giuseppe Garibaldi (often erroneously confused for Karl Marx by other OP fans). One Piece is plenty political not simply in stylistic choices but also in substance. Its just wild that the Trash Taste boys are missing it, especially when 2 of them also focus on media analysis. Do you get what I mean?
Hasan my man. There are so few talks about Space Dandy let alone being the favorite one. Space Dandy is my all time favorite period. Deserves way more talks.
@cdawg as a fellow mechanical engineer I’m disappointed, the body is essentially a mechanical functioning system. Mechanical engineering is made up of core principles such as heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, etc. all of which the body can be broken down into categories of those principles. Thus AoT should be considered a mecha Edit: typo
There's a reason we call them mechanical pencils and not button pencils. Mechanical doesn't mean it needs to be a fucking robot lol. I'm fully on board the flesh mecha train. Also an engineering student but this is sort of common knowledge anyway.
Hasan is actually right with his One Piece take. Luffy is a literal freedom fighter against an oppressive government. Cool that somebody else pointed it out.
@@honey2826 it sure can be, and it certainly does lead to greed and wealth inequality. But it doesn't need an oppressive government to enforce, and it still to this day is the only economic system that actually works and has helped more people live better lives than worse overall.
@@ZingoBananaa Capitalism is the system that had hundreds of millions (if not billions, considering the timeline) living under colonialist rule for centuries, brought back literal slavery for a time, and continues to wage imperialist wars to this day. And defintion of "oppresive" is frankly debatable, and modern governments could easily still be viewed as opressive, just less so in some regards.
Naruto also has a lot of political subjects. It criticizes the idea of child soldiers being treated only as tools, Corrupt governments (Even the Leaf which are supposed to be the good guys do messed up shit which makes it less black and white) Xenophobia/Racism against the Uchiha and the Jinchuriki/Tailed Beasts, Pain's whole character is deeply political and anti-war especially when he clearly equates the power of the tailed beasts into nuclear deterrent.
To be completely honest, I always thought I wouldn't like Hasan based on what people say about him on the internet. I dislike and avoid creators that drown themselves in dramas and politics but Hasan reminded me not to judge a person based on rumors/internet rumors and their content alone. Hasan was funny and a sweet guy this whole Japan arc, I'm a fan now. Yes, ik that he's not always like when he is streaming but I feel that the Hasan we saw in the Japan episodes is the real Hasan.
People on the internet are insane, he's a chill dude but since he talks about politics, more specifically left politics online all the crazies come out to rant on everywhere he shows up
Politics is not equal to drama. Politics are very important and it is a tough topic, but necessary. Hasan doesn’t really involve himself in drama that isn’t necessary (ok he kind does) but honestly he’s right much more often then he isn’t. So even if you don’t care about politics, don’t view everyone who does as a crazy drama queen. We trying to improve society out here.
@@franekkkkk never said that politics=drama. There are topics that attract so much toxicity and politics is one of them, I simply dislike getting involved in that.
@@Alex-bi9mk Oh yeah I bet, it's inevitable that people are going to say and do some unhinged stuff when it comes to that topic, especially on the internet.
He’s a great guy, obviously has his flaws but he has a big heart for people as a whole. He almost cried on stream the other month because people were using their preconceived notions of him to prevent and bad mouth the charity he was a running for the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. He wasn’t sad that people were hating him but the fact the hate prevented IShowSpeed from donating 50k to the relief efforts. The charity was made and started by Hasan and Turkish ppl
yo this was probably one of my favorite episodes, and side note: as an american it's pretty crazy that all four people at that table were bilingual and w/ a different language each. im so jealous
@ho1m well you got to consider that English is essentially the language of commerce around the world but in America there are alot of bilingual people. iirc its Spanish, French, German as the most prevalent and many schools here teach Spanish in middle school(ages 11-13) and almost all high schools have Spanish plus other languages to teach.
@@chrisholcomb7066 Yeah i know, its just intereting how suprised/facinated americans are when they meet someone whos bilinual, when most of themself are/should be as well
With everything in this episode, it was nice to simply see Hasan happy. The joy, even when banter got heavy, the boys and him were in that playful-banter place.
it happened in japan too, they were a subculture back in the day. young high schooler delinquents were an epidemy across the country. motorbikes, rockabilly/grease asthetics, beating up people, in fighthing and even murder sometimes.
I'm surprised they were laughing off what Hasan was saying about One Piece. I agree with everything he was saying, and when I was catching up with the manga, the political aspects were a huge part of what got me excited to continue reading it. Like he was saying, Luffy literally spends the whole story fighting against authoritarian government bodies to free the people. The most amazing thing to me about the world-building in One Piece is the complexity of the political structures and how they interact
That's what I'm saying, Hasan said it like it was a hot take and meanwhile he was just citing things that happen in the manga, One Piece has never NOT been political
Oda is so “leftist” that One Piece still doesn’t have LGBTQ characters and all women are feminine, attractive and wear skimpy clothes. Oda just writes about common human themes, there is nothing “political here”. Same way some people think sitting on a couch and relaxing is political.
@@c.k.1933 Have you not watched Impel Down, where we discover that a whole community of trans people exists in the world's strongest prison ? Or the theories about how Crocodile is actually a transmale ? Or the whole liberation theme centered around the fishmen ? Or how there are a LOT of female characters that are neither sexualised, feminine looking or scandily clothed ? I know you're just trolling at this point, but I wanna make sure people realise that this is not an argument.
One of the worst episodes so far bro couldn’t help but somehow bring leftist politics into anime conversation.. Bros whole personality is politics and it’s fucking weird
Touching on what Hassan said, in Japan, too, homosexuality was once considered no big deal pre-Meiji period. Openly gay samurais were known. The Meiji Restoration and the post-war US occupation were the two blows Japan took that has sadly resulted in a more prudish society.
As someone studying Japanese, and Japanese history in college, I've read through several stories and accounts of this. It was very common at the time. Even in the Tale of Genji (a fiction story written a Long time ago based in the history at the time), there are big themes, and story points of homosexuality. There are even paintings of this as well. I hadn't thought about it before until Hasan brough it up, but honestly it's very likely that it's because of America Japan became so against things like homosexuality.
ngl i would love to watch a political analysis of anime lmao... i do this shit too🤣 hasan REALLY went full nerd on this!!!! also ngl... these were prolly the best anime takes we've ever had on the pod👀
@@luffytaro728 or when Hasan said "i like Zoro, Luffy is just too goofy" or something, i was like "brruuuh, i do NOT think you'll enjoy what's to come😬" xD
Not surprising though. He comes from a rich family of scientists. Like he used to do equestrian and show jumping. Not sure which field his dad is in but his brother is an aeronautics engineer at Boeing. His dad lost all their money betting on futures by the time they immigrated to the states tho.
Swastikas are not symbols of Nazism. They are ancient Indian symbols which Hitler took for his party. Please correct your knowledge as it portrays our religion wrongly. Hitler's symbol name is Hakenkreuz.
Can we take a second and appreciate that 4 different people each have another language they are fluent in yet they all speak English so well and fluent. Very cool especially since none of them are the same languages.
This is true for basically a billion other people on Earth. Obviously, they are speaking English at a native level, which isn't true for most of the aforementioned people, but this is still very common in Europe, and the parts of Africa and Asia, that were colonized by English speakers. It is mainly an English and US thing, that it is shocking, that somebody is bilingual (or more).
i am genuinely surprised by the guys' reaction to Hasan's words about politics in One Piece. Like... the Five Elders (Gorosei) literally based on real life politics from the past. how it's not clicking LOL One Piece is INSANLY politic driven.
Because people can take inspiration from real life events and politics, without trying to claim the author pushes for the same kind of narratives IRL. Attack on Titan is also a story very heavily inspired by IRL politics, but that doesn't mean Isayama actually believes in genocide being the answer. He just thought using it might make for an interesting story. It's extremely dangerous to conflate what people create in fiction, to real life views. And it's also extremely naive.
I highly suspect they were intentionally playing ignorant to lead Hassan on with his points without jeopardizing their apolitical image in an effort to maintain fan base. While it’s reasonable to think: in that case, why would they invite someone like Hassan in the first place? It could very well be that they simply wanted Hassan’s clout on their show but don’t want any consequences. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if the boys, especially Connor, secretly agrees with Hassan’s politics and just wanted him to do all the talking.
@@AnOwlfie you cant hear luffy literally go “i want to be pirate king because the king of the pirates is the most freest person in the world” and not think that’s a political statement. in a story about pirates. pirates who are called pirates because they go against the views of the world government
@@miljan1399 yeah you're right. I got that, thought it was a bit suspicious though because early access is also a thing on youtube too, should have the comment a few days older but agreed with the Spotify one, fair point
@@c.k.1933 lol it doesn’t have to be American you dummy. Indigenous people have been removed from their homelands by many nations outside of the United States. It’s just a theme that alludes to very common political historical events. If you don’t want to recognize it, that’s fine, but it doesn’t need to frustrate you if people find those commonalities in a media beloved by many walks of life.
The world was built on politics. Just because some people don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. Not everything has a political message but politics still is the structure of society. Politics doesn't always have to be conflict.Even a Utopia where everything is perfect would have politics.
Oh okay. This is one of those episodes were the person they invite has an enciclopedia worth of takes and arguments to back it up. Is super fun seeing Hasan talking with a passion and weebing out
They're all "teachers" those guests. The driver, the animator, the local JAV woman, the American teacher, the English traveler, and the kawaii jack-of-all-trades ladybeard
Hasan gets so much shit online so its nice to see his episode get so much praise. If you're a new fan I recommend watching him in a podcast or a structured setting because you see all his best qualities in a hour or two. His twitch streams are a hard-core due to their length (8 hours) and the dynamic he has with chat.
@@ajiththomas2465 he literally had a flashing neon light on his screen for days saying Putin is bad. His point is that the war is unjustifiable on the side of Russia but was provoked by the spread of NATO, a group made in collaboration with Nazis. I don't see how this is such a bad take
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You're welcome
Here come the "first" mfs
Can't wait for the respectful comments under this video.
love your podcasts
You're welcome
I AM NOT A WEEB!!!!!!!!!!😅
too late, the truth is out
Roight roight
Copium
So when you fighting Sam Hyde?
bro was the biggest weeb on the pod literally and figuratively.
Actually, 2 pregnant women fighting over diapers at Walmart is a flesh-mecha.
But the baby isn’t in control of the mother?
@@theturtle8869
Those hormonal flashes man
LOOOOOOL
You might be correct tho 🤔
Hmm you're into something here 🤔
Fun fact, there actually do exist a Japanese politician who lobbies against censorship in jav and doujins etc called Yamada Taro. Correct me if I'm wrong but I remember him winning a seat in the national diet or somewhere sometime ago.
Isn't that the same dude that has a dance crew with music videos dancing through akihabara?
Yamada LET'S GOOO
he's a famous mangaka right ?
@@lontongtepungroti2777 Just looked it up, it’s not the same one that made the Monogatari series
Is that a Garnts DND character?
Now I can tell the kids that accuse us of watching a kid's anime that it's very matured and has a lot of deep message that they won't understand 😅
hasan saying one piece is super political was funny at first but after he explained it he is 100% right😭
It's what makes it good, number one things that draw fans to OP.
Leftist politics are nearly universally popular, as long as they’re disguised to not LOOK leftist.
It has politics but it's not superpolitical
9:05
Hasan: I'm old, I'm 31
Joey: *quietly glances over to Garnt and his 32 year old existence*
The face he made 😂 thanks, I didn't catch that at first
LMAO THEY WERE SMIRKING
ohoo
Grant is pushing 40
lol
Hasan: "So Attack on Titan..."
Oh, he's gonna talk about how political it is, the fascist imagery and all that...
Hasan: "...is a mecha anime."
Aaand the anime community goes apeshit.
Weird how it counts as controversial, because Mother's Basement also said the same thing (and everyone seems to love him), dunno which of them said it first tho
This argument is literally a “dumplings are ravioli” argument - technically true if you want it to be.
@@MichelleD2023 I dunno, there's a part that Hasan says that's on point, about the kind of stories common in mecha animes that you also see in AoT.
@@Diego-zz1df deadass all mecha anime revolve around some kind of world power adopting a revolutionary weapon/technology which the characters utilise to shift the world climate. I'd say what differentiates the genre from other power fantasies is how much focus is placed on the militarised value of the technology that only certain people can control
That's exactly what makes it Meat Gundam though, the war crimes.
"Luffy is a terrorist."
Looks at his bounty by the world government. Checks out.
Garnt coping so hard to admit that Oda is a leftists lmaooo Not a single "history fan" would just hang a Che Guevara poster on his office lol And Hasan is right, there's a loooot of references through the anime
He's not. He's a pirate. Completely different
@@yellowcard8100 lol some people would definitely call pirates terrorists
@@Tygrave The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological
Yeah, luffy isn't a terrorist lol
@@Cron0s91 yea but oda is not a woke sjw idiot. hassn thinks oda is in his side lol what a tool
Ain’t no way these people are laughing at someone calling One Piece political when the main villain is called “The World Government”
Cause its not as simple without wg ther would be ppl lik Blackbeard or rocks which would be worse the freedom seeking is the true core of the series
@@sarov7658 I hope one day you have the ability to realize how political it is to try to define "true freedom". Y'know something philosophers and politicians have written and spoken about for as long as there's been humans
Yeah they really came across poorly in this episode. Laughing at literal facts that anyone with an ounce of media literacy could figure out. "Hurr durr OP is just long arm pirate man punch"
I'm pretty sure they were laughing cuz it was such a wild take even if they do agree with it. Literally, they never said they disagreed. They even agreed to some points. They just never heard such blunt takes like hassan has, so I guess their first instinct was to laugh lol
@@mura_saki that, and maybe they were afraid to lean one way or the other politically by agreeing with Hasan, since they're not a political podcast and stuff. probably the bois were just playing it safe
Hasan giving us the most anime episode we’ve had in ages. He’s never beating the weeb allegations.
He is a big smelly weeb
he literlly just watchs shonen
@@cavie034 Don't pretend like shonen isn't the most profitable genre in all of anime/manga. It would not be as global or successful of an industry without shonen. So if that's all he watches, that doesn't make him NOT a weeb.
@@cavie034 he watches samurai champloo, i love anime but i havent watched that. HE IS AN OG WEEB
@@cavie034You're not gonna catch a Naruto or My Hero stan knowing what Space Dandy is lmao. Hasan is deep into anime.
Trash Taste: we stay out of politics.
Hasan: hold my beer.
A true limo lefties XD
i mean it was balanced. the podcast never went into complete politics at the same time it had a political touch because of hasan.
I like to imagine it as hasan going "I'll hold your beer, also gonna give a speech about progressive praxis just try to stop me nerds" but I don't really watch hasan so that image is based purely on what I think is funny, and also on reversing the "hold my beer" phrase
@@MorbiusBlueBalls Yeah, they basically allowed him to say his views and opinions. Which was great. Also nice that they challenged his opinions a little, just enough it felt like for Hasan to elaborate.
And ultimately, whether they agree with those opinions or not is irrelevant. Because what they believe shouldn't matter, since their opinions are theirs, and ours should be ours.
If they wanted to stay out of politics, they wouldn't have invited one of the most political, and controversial, streamers.
Around 26:39 where Hasan talks about wage slave. I think he'll have a blast learning about some Japanese call themselves "Syachiku" (社畜) or "company livestock". It is a self-mockery term for Japanese who are getting treated horribly by companies as if they are livestock and not human. Says a lot about some working condition in Japan.
Or the black company work culture, and how the asian collectivist mentality off load the society failing into the family; e.g hikikomori for the jobless and how japan just round up all the homeless people to relocate into a out of sight district.
@@noirto2 True! Black company culture is something I see in Japan, China, and Taiwan. Taiwanese often complain about bad company owner who doesn't know the expertise into certain fields and is very stingy about paying a good salary to those employees. China has 996 (9am-9pm, 6 days/week).
I am certain if Japan use their 1% of their technological advanced resources, they can create remote works that even hikikomoris can work in, but they are also very slow at adapting new ideas.
“Luffy is a Terrorist.” Great way to start the podcast
Edit: As a big AOT fan, I see both sides of the debt that Titans are Mech’s
that's what happens when Luffy eats the Baku Baku no Mi instead
Hasan's favorite
I mean hes not wrong
I mean yea he definitely would be considered one by the government. 😅
Even better
"Why would you root for the bad guy"
Hasan confirmed non weeb. Everyone knows Japanese media usually makes the villain incredibly sexy and charismatic.
But all replies to Hasan in this comment section think he is actually a weeb😂
They really got people rooting for griffith
They are joking about Hasan being a bigger weeb than them, but he proved it literally from a first minute of the podcast
Hasan is not a weeb copium
@@TurtleChad1 Imagine still saying copium
@@TurtleChad1 nah dudes never beating the weeb allegations.
@@TurtleChad1 cringe
in all seriousness though I think he just watches more things than most people in general. So he's seen a lot of anime compared to the average person but his watch habits still may not be as weighted ratio-wize as the average weeb (though he is a weeb of course 😉)
Hasans take about One Piece is completely correct, Oda is super into politics and is a massive history buff. He bakes in so much politics in One Piece. The literal main message is about being free and what "freedom" really is.
yeah, it was really disappointing hearing boys saying that its not political
he literally has a picture of Che Guevara in his office xd
One of the gorosei dude who wields the kitetsu(one of the highest ranking in the world government hierarchy) is literally Mahatma ghandi as well.
@@halcyondreams1132 Rich people giving zero fucks about politics as usual.
Which makes sense since they're pirates
I love how Connor's got his arms on the back of his head and is relaxing just watching Joey and Garnt arguing.
Oh how the tables have turned
A change of pace
He went finally now its my time to sit back
わ😊😊あいかあぁ
What's the timestamp?
the one piece being political is the most common sense take hasan has ever made, i have no idea why it is controversial
It’s because the way he classified as being American left wing political is absurd.
it's cuz some fans like to say dumb shit like "OP ISN'T POLITICAL IT'S A FANTASY STOP TRYING TO SHOVE YOUR SJW BS DOWN OUR THROATS" when there is clearly political themes in the series like bro did we watch the same anime?
@@mirelle_mojena well, when you have people like Hasan attempting to claim fighting against a world government that rules by offering safety in place of freedom as left wing, it’s pretty easy to write it off as the political ravings of an idiot.
Hasan makes it seem like one piece only exists to make a political statement. He exaggerates the level to which its present or how prominent it
It's controversial because Weebs are literally the most politically illiterate group of people in the world.
holy shit. Hasan literally made Garnt and Joey into arguing each other about EVA🤣🤣
"Joey dont do this man"
Of course he did ..thts what Hasan does best, be toxic and gaslight people into fighting
@@ArtfulDodger94 Go outside
@ArtfulDodger Bro you literally watch Matt Walsh 🤮🤮🤮
@@igris0189 oh no he watches somebody, that completely invalidates his point 🙄. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive
The whole episode is just “hold up, let him cook”.
You dropped this 👑🤣
and he did cook well
And cook he did.
It’s absolutely insane that Baki’s creator is the father of the creator of Beastars
😮😮😮😮😮WHATTT??? Damn that's cool
THAT IS WILD!! I had no idea
I am gonna say a fcked up thing, do you think he did the baki father watch his kid have sex thing irl?
That’s crazzzzzyyyy
@@eleonarcrimson858 I have no idea on what you're saying with this wording, but the creator of Beastars is a woman.
Lol Hasan is so spot on about Vinland. The author's previous work, Planetes, has deep anti-capitalist messaging it's insane.
Dude I loved planetes and had no idea it was from the same creator. Cause Vinland is awesome too. Glad I came across your comment.
No way he wrote Planetes… I tried to go through that shit, it was so boring that I let it go after 8 episodes.
@@Matt-fh4bk it’s ok I don’t like slow burns😂
source and proof?
Didn't know he was the same author. Planetes is a masterpiece . You know how to make people eager to watch an anime.
I'm not a weeb.
Left: Change is good. We like new things.
Right: Things are fine the way they are. In fact, things were better yesterday.
One Piece: We need to change this world so radically that we come full circle and end up 900 years in the past.
Yo GLR watches trash taste??!!!
Damn GLR?!? Big fan!
@Noah Conservatism, which is a right-wing ideology, is literally about conserving the status quo, man.
@@anothun9216 Yeah, wtf is that guy talking about LMAO. The right is against exploitation of children? They literally are for removing child labor laws and age of consent laws are against libertarianism
@Noah
Which is why all those stories of Catholic priests *not* molesting anybody make headlines. Or, conservatives looking for ways around child labour laws.
Oda: This revolutionary guy is modeled after Fidel Castro, his ship is named after Fidel's ship. You have tribes fighting for their land. You have doctor's being taken hostage by the government to artificially inflate the value of medicine, you have slavery out in the open, next to the literal house of the elites, who use the land as their playground.
And spoilers: Luffy is the literal embodiment of Freedom dreamed up by the oppressed.
Garnt: Coincidence.
Funny how socialism has destroyed countries just like the evil elites do in the anime. And also how socialism hates the freedom to be able to own private property. Seems Oda is very uninformed on politics and probably just makes the case for right-libertarianism more than socialism.
Lmao
"One Piece is about a funny rubber guy having fun with his friends" -- average apolitical fan
It's amazing how treating "political" as a poisonous word can keep someone from seeing the obvious
Centrism bias and lack of knowledge about politics. The two plagues of every liberal society.
I'm pretty sure that they agree (you'd have to be pretty dumb to not see it), but can't agree too much/be too outspoken or else they'd be alienating their conservative fanbase (which I mean fuck conservatives but also understandable they wouldn't wanna politicize their content ig)
@@franekkkkk Not even close
this episode is funny cause hasan just says obvious stuff like "one piece is political" and "attack on titan is a mecha" and the other three lose their minds
yeah they basically proved his point lol anime fans hate that their shit could actually mean something
@@Shadowserpant00 i'm not even a big proponent of the whole "all art is inherently political" thing and i vastly prefer interpersonal themes to political ones but one piece is literally a story about toppling the government 😭
@@Shadowserpant00 damn
@pinna it's "discovering the secrets of your freedom masters and becoming free vs those who have ill-intent for freedom" first imo
Obvious, yes, but given a lot of people seem to reject the concept that One piece is political.
Joey: Eva isn't a mecha, its a scifi
Joey...those aren't mutually exclusive.Being one doesn't make it so it cannot be the other. In fact, 99% of mecha are scifi.
What's the mecha that's not sci-fi? I'm kinda intrigued by that concept, ngl.
@@morganqorishchi8181attack on titan
@@morganqorishchi8181 Attack on titan
@@morganqorishchi8181Gleipnir
Oda literally changed his art style quite considerably from how he naturally draws it so he could tackle all these tough topics while still making it a happy and goofy vibe. It’s absolutely that deep lmao
Oda is a hugeeee history buff. The trash taste guys are seriously underestimating how much thought Oda puts into the story haha
I highly suspect they were intentionally playing ignorant to lead Hassan on with his points without jeopardizing their apolitical image in an effort to maintain fan base.
While it’s reasonable to think: in that case, why would they invite someone like Hassan in the first place? It could very well be that they simply wanted Hassan’s clout on their show but don’t want any consequences.
Though I wouldn’t be surprised if the boys, especially Connor, secretly agrees with Hassan’s politics and just wanted him to do all the talking.
It was crazy that none of them saw that One Piece has many political views, and they really are that deep, loved this episode and guest definitely pays attention to his anime.
@@grizzlybane I'm almost certain that they were playing dumb to avoid potential backlash from certain parts of the fanbase.
@@teasea546 well Hassan is pretty close to Ludwig and Connor is close to Ludwig. He also visited Japan with Sykkuno, so it only made sense to invite him. It might be that they want to remain apolitical for the audience, but I also wouldn't be surprised if they genuinely never thought about it. A lot of people can be apolitical in their normal lives, especially if they're living in a foreign country and so are sort of isolated from the politics of their own nation.
Totally agree with Hasan that One Piece is highly political lol. One of the many reasons the show resonated with me. Especially if you live in a country with a lot of tyranny and corruption, Luffy is an admirable icon because he does things his way not minding whoever he clashes with
Daym u real
Tgl viewer
ooohoo
Who cares; Hassan is a L lol
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"You didn't have to tell me that franky is American , he's powered by coke" Cdawg had me mf rolling at this point lmao
Not gonna lie. This episode was so much fun to listen to. HasanAbi is a great guest.
Joey is right, Hasan should start an Anime Analysis Channel
He would never beat the weeb allegations by then lol but the good thing is his political streams would be less on screen which is good.
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@@АртурМилкович ooooooo
It's finally time for him to spread over Breadtube essays thing
@@zondor8123Acting like his anime tales aren’t based in his politics in the first place lmao
Hasan is like a weeb who never actually talks about anime or watches anime related things on RUclips, he literally just watches anime and goes on with life. Its kinda cool to see.
The best kind of weeb tbh
@@friendlyneighbourhooddegen4739 he does sometimes drop a "Nani" in middle of stream 😂
ohooo
Um...no. he's a well known, extremely active political socialist commentator. His appearance here was a recruitment campaign for his channel.
@@nicsosa369 touch grass
did they give hasan a kids sit so that he looks normal😂
😂😂 coming from a tall person: your legs get basically removed cause you dont sit on your legs and people have diffrent body ratios so hasan probably has tall legs and a normal upper body
Its a babies high chair. They also gave him some soft peas and a bib.
I think he’s slumping down a bit too because he’s very conscious of enormous size
i also always forget but all of them are pretty tall. especially garnt.
@@crawlspaces yeah but hasan isn't just tall, he's also big
Only took 145 episodes for Space Dandy to be mentioned on the show 🙏
I actually like the debate about Aot being a mecha anime. I never thought of the idea and it was interesting as hell.
The EVA argument is perfect The EVAs are just fleshy bloody titans and the metal acts like armor and BDSM gear to keep them contained and calm.
The kids are just anti-anxiety pills to keep the EVAs nice and lucid
@@aaaalexandredo same
I’ve seen so much political content on AOT, apparently some people think Isayama is a fascist, which seems weird to me.
Yeah, they were always like nature's mecha or some sort lol
it's been a thing since season 1 was airing, how did you not at least come across the idea? I knew about it before I even watched the show ^^
Of all people, I didn’t think Hasan would be the one to get them to talk about anime for this long in an episode of trash taste.
I think hassan saw an opportunity to capitalize with the trash taste audience. And from all the comments, it worked. Unknowing minds were swayed.
@@nicsosa369 Ah yes, he doesn't actually like anime, he just studied on anime before the podcast to capitalize on being a guest in a podcast.
@@nicsosa369 literally no one cares. Stop putting your hasan conspiracy theory bullshit in every comment you see and go touch some grass.
@@nicsosa369 He's literally been a weeb for longer than he's been a political commentator.
@nic sosa Take a step back for a second. You honest to god think this dude decided to go on some podcast to indoctrinate anime fans into leftist ideology via talking about anime plot lines. Doesn't this sound at least a tiny bit paranoid and insane to you?
Hasans anime takes are actually incredibly based
Nope, he doesn't like Ussop and Buggy
@@kobil316SH Nice meme, my duderino.
@@kobil316SH I had to read One Piece because I couldn't stand Usop having the same voice as Shinichi in Detective Conan
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Based on what? Dogshit?
To the point Hasan brought up about Luffy being Brazilian: part of Oda's regular character information he gives in Q&A columns is where characters would be from the real world and has said Luffy would be from Brazil.
The way he goes into detail about how one piece is political makes it sound so interesting
If he comes back for another episode, hopefully Connor catches up to Hasan, so they can cover more political points in the series.
One piece is incredibly interesting for lots of reasons!! But it's cool to listen to such a passionate fan explain his reasons for loving it
@@kirkpatrikballares3291 I think on a stream when he got back to the US, Hasan said he’s planning to be back in Japan in June or something so fingers crossed they bring him back
@@emmityemmity6159 I know that Hasan is planning a 2nd trip, but regarding the boys guest throughout the years, only Chris Broad and Meilene have made more than 1 appearance, but theres definitely more they can squeeze out of Hasan aside from Anime, which is Memes in Politics etc, if Hasan isnt Available, I'll take Will Neff
@@emmityemmity6159 not gonna be caught up
People here thinking OP isn't political are living in the stone ages lmao
All stories have themes and messages baked into them. At least the good ones that last
There's a saying in Anime community long long time ago.
“If you enjoyed it, just enjoyed it. If you get it, you'll understand why"
@@tonionio Fishmen Island ain't the same as GoT incest ☠️
Fr people are just blind
@@tonionio exactly One Piece is way more historical and cultural before being political
Robin is in the crew not dragon and ivankov
As far as the politics in anime/manga thing goes, and whether or not the creators are aware of the history of the things they reference, or they're just throwing cool things, they are definitely almost always aware of the political ideas. Alotta people don't realize how deep the history of Japan goes in terms of leftist political movements, and how some of these authors/directors were either members of these movements, or had close relatives that were members, and taught them about their politics. And some of these movements are old. Like pre-WWI old. Some of them were around during the Meiji Revolution. It's pretty crazy. There's also the history of Indigenous Japanese (like the Ainu) fighting back against the government. Leftist politics and political movements are old in Japan, and many of the most respected creators in the industry are very aware of that part of Japan's history, as well as how it intersected with the history of political movements in other nations.
The Japanese Red Army had prominent members who fled Japan and joined the Palestinian Liberation movements. It's insane how deep that stuff really goes. Japan isn't the apolitical paradise so many Western anime/manga fans think it is.
blah balh balk hblak blah b;ah boring get new material nerd
Some outhor literally went into politics after finishing the work, check out the author of love hina
Also its easy for people that dont write/make art to write off things as just meaningless or because it looks cool, like why the curtain is blue etc, but when good art is made, especially something as stand out as OP, the artist almost definitely has to put a lot of their soul into the art, so things they believe in and care about and make things in the art have meaning, the fact that the art says something makes it special and artists know that when they decide what to write about.
@@El_Bukis Every country has their own array of different political ideals unless they are authoritarian. But most are not as divided in their different politics as modern western politics.
the fact none of the boys can take him seriously when he talks about how political one piece is makes me really sad.
It is interesting how Hasan didn't bring up the incredibly blatant anti war message at the end of the Chimera Ant arc in HxH, but he did say himself he hasn't seen it in ages.
There was no anti war message and if there was what was it?
@@mijanhoque1740 i think it has something to do with them nuking the ants
@@johnthebarbarian The Nuke was more to show that human intellect trumps everything. Humans couldn’t beat the Ants by physical means but their intelligence can. More to do with humanity perseveres by intellectual means making them the apex species than a war message.
@@mijanhoque1740 Did you not watch/ read hxh? ...
@@mijanhoque1740 It was about how much malice humans have and how we're monsters. In Chapter 298 there's literally the question "Were humans so different from ants?". This is after a monologue telling the reader about the horrors that was this bomb. Right after Netero blew up we get told that this bomb killed millions and there were efforts to ban it. The thesis statement for the entire Chimera Ant arc is literally about how horrible humans can be which culminates with Netero's words "You know nothing of the bottomless malice within the human heart".
Okay hold up, he was spittin with the One Piece is political take. I genuinely kept that in the back of my mind while binging it the entire time and thought “wait, this is literally a fight and abolish the corrupt government story.” And with so many references to both IRL and the story to actual ideals, I wouldn’t put it past oda to actually write it that way. I thought it was pretty obvious by the marine fort arc.
I heavily disagree. If you want to make the argument that it's political because of the tyrannical world government, then you'd have to admit it's also conspiratorial with the existence of the celestials. A shadowy cabal that rules the world through both overt and covert methods... I wouldn't read too much into it considering the negative implications that would have against Oda if it was intentional.
corrupt government being the antagonist in stories is kinda common place tho. star wars was rebels vs the empire(gov)
Oda is just writing about common human themes man. There is nothing deep here. He is not trying to inspire a leftist revolution.
@@Akakiryuushinyeah but Star Wars Empire is based of the Nazis and Americas invasion of Vietnam. The Marines in One Piece I think are based on the British, American, and Duce Empires. Which makes sense why Dragon is based on the Cube revolution
Yeah it’s political but he says it’s leftist because that’s his side. He assumes that corrupt authoritarian government represents the right when it goes either way. To him facist dictators are the right. To people on the right fighting an overreaching government is a right leaning ideal
I never seen Connor laugh this much.
I feel like in a year or two Connor's gonna move to LA to be w the other streamers
His connections will be more solidified, his audience will be bigger, and he's mentioned wanting to live in America.
He also seems visibly bored in recent episodes. It's kinda sad to see but understandable.
@@prod.bipxlar8765 I don't think so man , you reading too much into it , and his audience already big both as streamer and as youtuber.
Check out Hasan and Connor’s IRL stream in Kobe. One of the funnest streams I’ve seen in a while.
@@prod.bipxlar8765 @prod. bipxlar! Connor always looks depressed LOL ,that's his resting bitch face , and the bois already talked about how much they'll hate living in L.A.
@@prod.bipxlar8765 I disagree
It's not a coincidence that many Japanese anime/manga have political subtexts. A lot of Japanese animators and drawers are very anti-war and some of them very influential in pacifist movement (i.e. Hayao Miyazaki, Osamu Tezuka and Eiichiro Oda)
It's weird to me how the boys laugh at Hasan when he said One Piece is political anime. The grand theme is clearly about power structure and social system. Slavery, power/knowledge, racism, weaponry, war, classism, and so on. 😂😂😂
As someone else said, I think it was their way of not taking a side in order to not piss off fans. All three boys have a large following in the US and Marxism is VERY taboo here. Like so much so that it's better if your a content creator, to just not talk about it unless you're like Hasan and are trying to appeal to a certain crowd.
@@Steve-xo5pq which is very funny cause Connor is very clearly leftist by American standards. If you pick up any of his sayings and occasional thought drops, he views a lot of right winged American things as fucked up lmao.
It's also funny because the rest of the world is actually very far left and the conservative party in the UK for instance would be considered democrats in the US. SO occasionally, the boys will say something that is common to them, but to America, it can be controversial.
It's a matter of perspective as the boys all come from countries that are far more left leaning than the US which is considered extremely right leaning. Again, American left parties are considered right wing in most countries.
@@Steve-xo5pq Being aware of any kind of political narrative and talk about Marxism is two different things, tho. You don't have to be a Marxist or talk about Marxism to discuss political issues. I think the boys just surprised (maybe that's why they laughed) someone casually break down One Piece storyline as a leftist narrative. They just not familiar with it, and I think Garnt also joined the conversation later on.
@@Steve-xo5pq yeah look what happened to mother's basement. He had to chill to a extent and catrter to the weebs first and formost. And thing is weebs or Otaku in Japan tend to be very politically apathetic.
@@ScourJful Exactly, a lot of the USA's left-leaning parties are considered right-leaning by other Countries' standards.
damn, didnt think this episode was gonna be a banger but Hasan proved me wrong, for me this was the most entertaining episode since Pete's ep.
Hasan on podcasts is very different to his solo stream self, on stream he’s constantly repeating basic Shit bc to him it’s what’s necessary to do that job, on podcasts he’s much more his loose natural self and is super funny and entertaining
@@amiracle3390 I think that is apt. I don't watch him and never cared about him, but from Connors IRL stream i gathered that the dude himself is cool, just don't need his content. Also i don't like his content for the most stupid reason, similar to Joey never watches overhyped stuff, i just don't like the huge streamers content.
Didn't even know before the comments here that he does political stuff, which also does not interest me ^^
Pete's episode was great!
@@MrStatistx nice story buddy nobody cares
Worst epsiode shouldnt have allowed him on
i love how like every kid raised in the middle east or north africa can universally remember watching captain tsubasa dubbed in their language growing up
Mexico too
Holy shit I didn’t know that was a thing that’s hilarious
Add Germany to that list :D
dominican republic too
Indonesia too. Both the 80s and the 2002 series
Hasan: "I wish Luffy was a little less GOOFY though"
*_He's not gonna like Luffy's newest form..._*
As a 19 year old who also grew up in Turkey, the fact he mentioned he saw Tsubasa too was amazing. We also had this Korean anime called JangGeum’s Dream for some reason, but it slapped, the dub was so bad but amazing
I recently watched both seasons of JangGeum's dream and finished it just yesterday. Because I remember watching it as a kid on Yumurçak TV XD
Kaptan Tsubasa animesi o kadar harika ki adamlar 10 dakika topla koşarken birbirlerine bağırıyorlar. O lanet olası futbol sahası ne kadar büyük 😅😂
@@yusassin1449 I loved JangGuem's Dream as a kid!! Wish I could find it in korean and rewatch. Where did you watch it and was it in turkish or korean?
Bro I loved jang geum so much
I waschen it turkish dubbed on yt
OMG I've been searching for it for so long! THANK YOU❤
l watched it in Arabic dub when l was young but it didn't continue in the channel and l forgot the name
@@yusassin1449love when you see the goal appear over the horizon like they're playing on a Mario Galaxy planet
How is Hasan the only one who understands the moral backbone of One Piece lmfao
There's a lot of One Piece analysts that do actually understand them like GLR, Ohara, Randy Troy, Joygirl or Artur. It's just the more casual enjoyer like Garnt and Joey would not see them and that's the beauty of One Piece. It appeals to casuals and nerds/weebs. There's also literature geeks like Merphy or Melontree who also discussed those morals. The only difference is that they discussed it within the context of philosophical writings or thematic writings instead of politically.
Omg! Ikr!
Because these guys are more akin to comedians than some literary analysts. They try to gaslight him saying it’s not that deep but Hasan understands how blatantly wrong they are and doesn’t concede.
Facts it is 100% political idk why they’re laughing when he says that lmao
@@wandringhobo4321 great take
They're talking about the superficial aesthetic characteristics of what makes a mecha but Hasan is right if you think about mecha tropes and mechanics. The mech is a tool that characters use to fight eachother, they act simultaneously like a vehicle but also like protective armor or an extention of their bodies, they give the characters the ability to fight at a larger scale while keeping their anthropomorphic essence and personalities (which would be lost if it were, say tanks), each mecha has its own special ability, I mean it's all there, they're just made of flesh. It makes no sense to cut off the comparison at superficial stuff like "do you get in it or does it form from you?" or comparing it to Ratatouille. It's the tropes.
Bro spitting facts
AoT is not mecha, they are augmented body part, you don't enter in a robot, you create it from your cell
Also evangelion is mecha with biomech technology
mecha genre inherently just means mechanical, if these tools are not made of mechanical it really is not mecha at all, moreover if it's flesh / entire being. But if you said AoT should be in the subgenre of mecha, then sure I'll agree, they're different but they can still be in the same umbrella term
On top of that mecha is more often than not set up as a political drama which is a half of what's going on in AoT
@@TomesTheAmazing so by that logic Kingdom is mecha anime?
Mecha is mecha, if it doesn't have giant robots (which is not the same than overgrowth of your body) it's not mecha
hearing about all these "one piece takes" by Hasan, I now understand why One Piece is such an amazing franchise; the creator was literally inspired by important real-world historical events. he took the hot points and cooked them in his manga
The creator of One Piece supports pedophilia lol
This is the most fun episode in such a while. Hasan seems like such a fun guy to hang with
Hasan is right about OP being a political anime. Every arc after arlong, or atleast from alabasta to current has been political LMAO
Isn't it political like, from the first chapters? Like hinting at the police structure being corrupt from the get-go, police brutality and abuse of power and all
The problem is that to a lot of weebs "political" means bad, it's fucking ridiculous. I knew media literacy was dead when i saw someone call the new Gundam series shit because it got "political".
Gundam was always political since the beginning - it can’t “get political”.
A video game like Mario can get political simply because it’s plots are really apolitical and literally about Mario/Peach/Bowser. Gundam was always political.
I don't think I've ever seen Garnt and Joey on such opposing sides than talking about if Eva is a mecha anime or not.
Hasan of all people was the profit all along, someone finally convinced the boys to talk about Anime on their Anime podcast xD
Maybe Hasan will save us from the Dark Timeline.
The profit?
@@Cunningstunts23 prophet lol
Never heard of HasanAbi before this episode. The double whammy of his political analysis of One Piece and Vinland Saga already made me interested in his content. Media analysis is so fucking hard. You can't ever precisely know what the intentions of an author were, but it's always important to think about the message the media conveys; intentionaly or not. Publically publishing art is always, at some level, a political act. This doesn't mean that you can't enjoy it at surface level or that all art is propoganda. However, art is made by persons that have ideals, motivations, principles, tastes etc. When they create art these predispositions will be inexorably intertwined with the product. This fact alone warrants a political analyis of most art. And I think Hasan shows this beautifully during this episode. Props!
Do not watch him hes literally said america deserved 9/11
Lol he's a weeb some people don't.
@@benjaminramsey498 ????
Just letting you know, there are haters who doesn’t like him just cause of his political takes. Do proper research and try out his content first before deciding. Some of his haters are as insane as Tate fans.
He’s great i enjoy his streams a lot. If you would like to give his content a go you should start by watching some of his RUclips videos on subjects that interest you Hasanabi (main channel) Hasan (second channel)
This episode flew by so fast and I feel like they still have so much to talk about. This could be two times the duration and I'd honestly be down. Part 2 when
This is true i think hasan wants to talk alot more but the episode will be 4 hours if they let him lead hahahaha
IKR??? Hasan was ready to go longer
ohoo
This felt like only 30 mins of Hasan spitting with some incredibly based takes, I need a second episode of this shit
yep it felt like that
The three word summary of this episode is "Let him cook."
It's wild to me that conner has never heard the term wage slave.
I love how hunched over Hasan is here which makes him look like the smallest person in the room lol
I wanna see how he compares to Grant the Giant 😜
I wanna see how he compares to Grant the Giant 😜
his exterior matches his pathetic interior
@@josebeteta8283 God I hate emoji
@@Good_Hot_Chocolate you not alone
Hasan's take on AoT being mecha is exactly what I thought when I was watching it, he's so fucking right about that. The boys' reaction to it is hilarious.
Garnt immediately defending hasans very correct take made me laugh so hard
Titans are flesh mechas!
think calling it a mecha is very much taking the show at face value, like yeah it looks like people piloting flesh mechas, but I don't think that qualifies it to be sorted under a genre it wasn't made to be.
Comparing it to Eva is interesting but just because Eva has a plot point where it turns out the mechas have not actually been mechanical this whole time, doesn't mean that the definition of mecha has to be changed, or that Eva has to be stripped of the mecha tag.
Eva was made to be a mecha show, aot wasn't. Think it's simple as that
This feels like a "is cereal soup" argument
thats a basic observation, also its pretty impresive that he even realized that with him not liking any shows with giant robots in them, what a clown
@@cavie034Mecha fans are either the most aggressive or most chill people. You're obviously not that chill.
I got to the AoT argument...and immediately went, no, its more a magical girl genre than mecha...and then I remembered that gundam is centered around teenagers who are (likely or explicitly) psychic/have special powers that enable them to become Gundam pilots...so ive convinced myself further that mecha and magical girls are the same thing and if AoT sits at both, then the military drama aspects push it as being a mecha.
I thought I was free from AoT....and now I keep thinking of narrative parallels 😢
Damn. Does this mean Eva is a magical girl anime?
Bruh
lil bro has no one to talk this with so he came to the yt comments😢😂
@@lordsubl1meok dud
Bro is thinking for free
Joey accidentally argued against his own point 48:50 . I love it
Connor flexing his welsh and Garnt flexing his thai is kind of insane. Wish joey and hasan also flexed some stuff in their languages.
I think they did but it was very short
Agreed, not sure why they seem so reluctant to speak their native tongues, specifically Connor and Gigguk.
@@Mellow_Yellow13 Because they can only communicate in English and appeal to an English speaking audience
@@Mellow_Yellow13in England in school especially, it was kind of a cringe thing to do, not sure why but it always just felt weird speaking another language, maybe potentially outing yourself as an outsider or maybe cause it’s considered a subtle flex? Either way, it was always just cringe for the speaker.
I'm surprised they haven't heard of the term wage slave, it's pretty ubiquituous in most places I see talking about work and living. Maybe it's a US thing, but it's working a job that doesn't pay you enough to live, just enough to survive. So say all of your money goes to Rent, to Food, to Utilities, and then nothing is left over for anything else but basic survival needs. Then, you work over 40 hours a week at this job, so you work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, plus an additional weekend or possibly both weekends, and you never have time to actually do anything. Days your not working is spent just catching up on maintenance of your house and person, so your entire life becomes just completely engulfed by working and spending money to survive.
Sometimes it's less than 8 per day/40 per week, because that means you are not entitled to benefits like Medicare for the illnesses you gained from doing the job.
It's shocking to me that people don't know what the term means. It's the only reason,why slavery was abolished. The "free market" was way cheaper and more lucrative for them. You just let people compete against each other for jobs and press the wages down to nothing.
@@Sultansekte Same deal as "decolonised africa" - a bunch of bullshit. Europe and America never let Africa go, just look at how France still maintains its Empire economically with the CFA Franc, even though today It doesn't show up on the map anymore. Imperialism today comes not from the barrel of the gun, but the banks. It's even more lucrative to have these nations nominally independent: the imperial masters can continue to exploit the workforce and resources of these countries without having to build the infrastructure to maintain it themselves.
it's a left-wing term. And most people aren't left wing in that anti-capitalist sense.
Wage slave is a very uncommon term, unless you are engaged in political circles, which most people aren't.
Idk how the boys watch/read Enies Lobby, saw the massacre of Ohara, saw Akainu's extreme sense of absolute justice, watched Luffy tell Usopp to burn the WG flag and declare war and the go "apolitical, totally apolitical"
Overthrowing the govt is just a normal thing everyone does wdym
Right?!
So true lol
Probably because they watched early One piece when they were still in their late teens to early 20s and are so focused onto consuming anime and japan culture
It's genuinely insane.
Now I don't know wether Oda is a genuine communist, but I do think he clearly is a leftist.
Literally all the "good thing" in his work are leftist ideals.
What a banger of an episode. Can't stand weebs proclaiming that they're unpolitical and that we should keep any politics (they always mean identity politics) out of all conversations and should just chill bro.
This was lit.
someone on reddit before said code geass was neither left or right and not political at all. just pure action. i almost offed myself after reading that
@@olivr_wtf the feels.
@oliv_r in chat
I know, right?
One Piece is obviously political in a substantial sense, not a stylistic sense. All it takes is too look at the allusions and references.
Luffy's father Monkey D. Dragon is the leader of the Revolutionary Army, his ship is named Granma, the same name as Fidel Castro's shop, and his birthday is October 8, the same date of the October Revolution. Not only that but having a framed portrait of Che Guevara on your wall is quite a lot different from having a Che Guevara T-shirt.
Another is the Gorosei/Five Elders who are at the near top of the World Government. All 5 of them are visually based on important political leaders from history, namely: Itagaki Taisuke, Abraham Lincoln, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mahatma Gandhi, and Giuseppe Garibaldi (often erroneously confused for Karl Marx by other OP fans).
One Piece is plenty political not simply in stylistic choices but also in substance. Its just wild that the Trash Taste boys are missing it, especially when 2 of them also focus on media analysis. Do you get what I mean?
@@olivr_wtfcode grass??? Wtf
There's no politics, it's just cartoons
Hasan my man. There are so few talks about Space Dandy let alone being the favorite one.
Space Dandy is my all time favorite period. Deserves way more talks.
Space Dandy is GOATED.
@cdawg as a fellow mechanical engineer I’m disappointed, the body is essentially a mechanical functioning system. Mechanical engineering is made up of core principles such as heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, etc. all of which the body can be broken down into categories of those principles. Thus AoT should be considered a mecha
Edit: typo
There's a reason we call them mechanical pencils and not button pencils. Mechanical doesn't mean it needs to be a fucking robot lol. I'm fully on board the flesh mecha train. Also an engineering student but this is sort of common knowledge anyway.
This was what I was thinking too
This comment goes hard, and I love it
Not even remotely an engineer and this was my thought. Flesh bodies are still essentially mechanical structures... just cellular in its composition.
I’d even read flesh mecha, it’s kind of popular genre in fantasy
This man DEFINITELY knocked the set over getting out of the seat
Their new set is very spacey.
@Michael yes i had a camera installed inside the studio.
@Michael They made a vlog
Hasan is actually right with his One Piece take. Luffy is a literal freedom fighter against an oppressive government. Cool that somebody else pointed it out.
imagine calling yourself a socialist but rooting for somebody fighting against oppressive governments lol
@@ZingoBananaaand capitalism isn’t oppressive?
@@honey2826 it sure can be, and it certainly does lead to greed and wealth inequality.
But it doesn't need an oppressive government to enforce, and it still to this day is the only economic system that actually works and has helped more people live better lives than worse overall.
@@ZingoBananaa Capitalism is the system that had hundreds of millions (if not billions, considering the timeline) living under colonialist rule for centuries, brought back literal slavery for a time, and continues to wage imperialist wars to this day.
And defintion of "oppresive" is frankly debatable, and modern governments could easily still be viewed as opressive, just less so in some regards.
@@A_B_1917 i agree, do you want to make this into a ”pick your poison” debate?
Naruto also has a lot of political subjects. It criticizes the idea of child soldiers being treated only as tools, Corrupt governments (Even the Leaf which are supposed to be the good guys do messed up shit which makes it less black and white) Xenophobia/Racism against the Uchiha and the Jinchuriki/Tailed Beasts, Pain's whole character is deeply political and anti-war especially when he clearly equates the power of the tailed beasts into nuclear deterrent.
So true absolutely
Hidden leaf village deserved shinra tensei. There I'm saying it.
@@w77eed Did a spit-take at this reference lmfao
@@w77eed fuck it, I’m saying it. 😂
Tbh naruto really had some basic political points going but then the ending and the message just wasn't it like what was the point.
To be completely honest, I always thought I wouldn't like Hasan based on what people say about him on the internet. I dislike and avoid creators that drown themselves in dramas and politics but Hasan reminded me not to judge a person based on rumors/internet rumors and their content alone. Hasan was funny and a sweet guy this whole Japan arc, I'm a fan now. Yes, ik that he's not always like when he is streaming but I feel that the Hasan we saw in the Japan episodes is the real Hasan.
People on the internet are insane, he's a chill dude but since he talks about politics, more specifically left politics online all the crazies come out to rant on everywhere he shows up
Politics is not equal to drama. Politics are very important and it is a tough topic, but necessary. Hasan doesn’t really involve himself in drama that isn’t necessary (ok he kind does) but honestly he’s right much more often then he isn’t. So even if you don’t care about politics, don’t view everyone who does as a crazy drama queen. We trying to improve society out here.
@@franekkkkk never said that politics=drama. There are topics that attract so much toxicity and politics is one of them, I simply dislike getting involved in that.
@@Alex-bi9mk Oh yeah I bet, it's inevitable that people are going to say and do some unhinged stuff when it comes to that topic, especially on the internet.
He’s a great guy, obviously has his flaws but he has a big heart for people as a whole. He almost cried on stream the other month because people were using their preconceived notions of him to prevent and bad mouth the charity he was a running for the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. He wasn’t sad that people were hating him but the fact the hate prevented IShowSpeed from donating 50k to the relief efforts. The charity was made and started by Hasan and Turkish ppl
yo this was probably one of my favorite episodes, and side note: as an american it's pretty crazy that all four people at that table were bilingual and w/ a different language each. im so jealous
It's not too late to start practicing another one
America has lot of bilingual ppl
It's wild to me that a lot of Americans only speak english, as a Swede we learned english in like 4th grade
@ho1m well you got to consider that English is essentially the language of commerce around the world but in America there are alot of bilingual people. iirc its Spanish, French, German as the most prevalent and many schools here teach Spanish in middle school(ages 11-13) and almost all high schools have Spanish plus other languages to teach.
@@chrisholcomb7066 Yeah i know, its just intereting how suprised/facinated americans are when they meet someone whos bilinual, when most of themself are/should be as well
the bilingual section was so fun to listen to and hear all the differences between their mother tongues
With everything in this episode, it was nice to simply see Hasan happy. The joy, even when banter got heavy, the boys and him were in that playful-banter place.
He's happy because chat isn't there
ohoo
@@kobil316SH oh god, you know chat would be stun locking him every 5 minutes
@@kobil316SH He wasn't watching a reactionary conservative for more than 10 minutes
These things change a man
Someone tell Conner that 14-17 year old gang members is realistic it happens everyday in America
it happened in japan too, they were a subculture back in the day. young high schooler delinquents were an epidemy across the country. motorbikes, rockabilly/grease asthetics, beating up people, in fighthing and even murder sometimes.
@@Afreshio that’s more of an anesthetic, not the actual gangbanging
It’s realistic in a lot of countries
every country's got their own flavour of teenage gang members
It literally happens in the UK too, he's just a bit dumb like that sometimes.
I'm surprised they were laughing off what Hasan was saying about One Piece. I agree with everything he was saying, and when I was catching up with the manga, the political aspects were a huge part of what got me excited to continue reading it. Like he was saying, Luffy literally spends the whole story fighting against authoritarian government bodies to free the people. The most amazing thing to me about the world-building in One Piece is the complexity of the political structures and how they interact
That's what I'm saying, Hasan said it like it was a hot take and meanwhile he was just citing things that happen in the manga, One Piece has never NOT been political
Oda is so “leftist” that One Piece still doesn’t have LGBTQ characters and all women are feminine, attractive and wear skimpy clothes. Oda just writes about common human themes, there is nothing “political here”. Same way some people think sitting on a couch and relaxing is political.
@@c.k.1933 lmao you keep putting this same exact reply under every comment correctly talking about the leftist politics of One Piece.
@@BryanChuckBrennan yeah, these same comments deserve same responses
@@c.k.1933 Have you not watched Impel Down, where we discover that a whole community of trans people exists in the world's strongest prison ? Or the theories about how Crocodile is actually a transmale ? Or the whole liberation theme centered around the fishmen ? Or how there are a LOT of female characters that are neither sexualised, feminine looking or scandily clothed ? I know you're just trolling at this point, but I wanna make sure people realise that this is not an argument.
My favourite episode to date, hot takes about anime, some politics, and the guest actually being the main star here instead of being overshadowed.
Yeah, a lot of the time they're the third wheel, here it was all about Azan!!!
One of the worst episodes so far bro couldn’t help but somehow bring leftist politics into anime conversation..
Bros whole personality is politics and it’s fucking weird
Not as good as Pete’s episode, but definitely still top tier
@@BirdMorphingOne Pete's episode is one of the best, but I like Hasan's a bit more since it's anime oriented.
@@BirdMorphingOne Pete's episode was like 3 boys are talking to their cool uncle
Touching on what Hassan said, in Japan, too, homosexuality was once considered no big deal pre-Meiji period. Openly gay samurais were known. The Meiji Restoration and the post-war US occupation were the two blows Japan took that has sadly resulted in a more prudish society.
nah
Imagine if that never happened
"Nazi Germany lost but Fascism won."
- George Carlin
As someone studying Japanese, and Japanese history in college, I've read through several stories and accounts of this. It was very common at the time. Even in the Tale of Genji (a fiction story written a Long time ago based in the history at the time), there are big themes, and story points of homosexuality. There are even paintings of this as well. I hadn't thought about it before until Hasan brough it up, but honestly it's very likely that it's because of America Japan became so against things like homosexuality.
@@keiz_ Nah, as countries become more militant they become more heterosexual aswell its nature
ngl i would love to watch a political analysis of anime lmao... i do this shit too🤣 hasan REALLY went full nerd on this!!!! also ngl... these were prolly the best anime takes we've ever had on the pod👀
Watches Code Geass, Promare, Gundam, MHA, and any Miyazaki movie: "Boy, I sure am glad there's no politics in anime!"
Ahh yes I remember watching my neighbor totoro and kiki's delivery service and seeing all the politics in it. But no seriously you are right.
When you watch even something like Death Note and think it is not political
" I see Luffy looking like Popeye "
Connor has no idea how real this is given with Luffy's recent ability.
shishsishi sun god what??
@@luffytaro728 or when Hasan said "i like Zoro, Luffy is just too goofy" or something, i was like "brruuuh, i do NOT think you'll enjoy what's to come😬" xD
Is that what it is
@@TheMindofagenius1 he should stop
Goofy chars r always above stoic badass ones
I didn't know who Hasan is, but I can see why he's so popular.
Very charismatic dude.
You should watch one stream. On Twitch.
He's a wealthy guy that hates wealthy people.
@@Nightharmony69 hell no his streams are unbearable
@@Yo-gf6xl sounds like You problem
It’s really sad how Hasan was forced to stop drawing, you can tell he really used to like it.
Not surprising though. He comes from a rich family of scientists. Like he used to do equestrian and show jumping. Not sure which field his dad is in but his brother is an aeronautics engineer at Boeing. His dad lost all their money betting on futures by the time they immigrated to the states tho.
At least he still gets to work in a relatively creative field!
@@Angels510 damn that's crazy
@@Angels510 then he moved to his bazllion dollar compound with a killer whale around the motte (do not fact check this just trust me)
@@Emileave damn that's crazy
Swastikas are not symbols of Nazism. They are ancient Indian symbols which Hitler took for his party. Please correct your knowledge as it portrays our religion wrongly. Hitler's symbol name is Hakenkreuz.
Can we take a second and appreciate that 4 different people each have another language they are fluent in yet they all speak English so well and fluent. Very cool especially since none of them are the same languages.
This is true for basically a billion other people on Earth. Obviously, they are speaking English at a native level, which isn't true for most of the aforementioned people, but this is still very common in Europe, and the parts of Africa and Asia, that were colonized by English speakers. It is mainly an English and US thing, that it is shocking, that somebody is bilingual (or more).
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@Gabor F yes it is true but as an American it's not something I get to commonly see. So yeah perception is everything.
That is all fucking normal anywhere but among Anglophones
i am genuinely surprised by the guys' reaction to Hasan's words about politics in One Piece. Like... the Five Elders (Gorosei) literally based on real life politics from the past. how it's not clicking LOL One Piece is INSANLY politic driven.
Not everyone wants to see politics in the things they enjoy.
Because people can take inspiration from real life events and politics, without trying to claim the author pushes for the same kind of narratives IRL.
Attack on Titan is also a story very heavily inspired by IRL politics, but that doesn't mean Isayama actually believes in genocide being the answer. He just thought using it might make for an interesting story.
It's extremely dangerous to conflate what people create in fiction, to real life views. And it's also extremely naive.
I highly suspect they were intentionally playing ignorant to lead Hassan on with his points without jeopardizing their apolitical image in an effort to maintain fan base.
While it’s reasonable to think: in that case, why would they invite someone like Hassan in the first place? It could very well be that they simply wanted Hassan’s clout on their show but don’t want any consequences.
Though I wouldn’t be surprised if the boys, especially Connor, secretly agrees with Hassan’s politics and just wanted him to do all the talking.
@@AnOwlfie you cant hear luffy literally go “i want to be pirate king because the king of the pirates is the most freest person in the world” and not think that’s a political statement. in a story about pirates. pirates who are called pirates because they go against the views of the world government
people watch anime or any media want to turn off their brain to escape reality and enjoyed it.. thats all
When the takes are so spicy that the alliance between Joey and Garnt are broken
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@@dirtypedestrian correct its one of my most played game when I was in highschool
Just casually trying to catch up on some trash taste and out of nowhere “Oda is a leftist and luffy is a terrorist”
His not the same lefty as hussian who dont know what a woman is
based takes.
The fact that Hasan brought back anime to this podcast is hilarious!
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@Weebgraphy also the podcast is put out early access by like a day on Spotify and other platforms where the podcast exists
@@miljan1399 yeah you're right. I got that, thought it was a bit suspicious though because early access is also a thing on youtube too, should have the comment a few days older but agreed with the Spotify one, fair point
I just finished skypiea and I thought the exact same thing as Hasan. There’s a lot of political themes in the arcs and I’m early into one piece lol
It is not dumb American politics, which is the whole point. There are some themes, but people who say “le everything is political” are just dumb af.
@@c.k.1933 lol it doesn’t have to be American you dummy. Indigenous people have been removed from their homelands by many nations outside of the United States. It’s just a theme that alludes to very common political historical events. If you don’t want to recognize it, that’s fine, but it doesn’t need to frustrate you if people find those commonalities in a media beloved by many walks of life.
Everything is political and anyone who says otherwise is dumb af. Not challenging a status quo is just as political as challenging one.
There are some vestiges of Israel Palestine conflict in Skypiea for sure
The world was built on politics. Just because some people don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. Not everything has a political message but politics still is the structure of society. Politics doesn't always have to be conflict.Even a Utopia where everything is perfect would have politics.
This is the most Anime I have ever heard Trash Taste be. Hasan literally made it an Anime podcast lol.
Connor and Hasan hyped this episode so much and it was definitely worth it lmao
Is this a joke?
I'm at 57 minutes, and this is the most headache-inducing one yet...
@@imarock.7662 sound like a you problem
@@imarock.7662if you got something wrong with your head you should see a doctor bro, hope you get better
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It wasnt
Oh okay. This is one of those episodes were the person they invite has an enciclopedia worth of takes and arguments to back it up. Is super fun seeing Hasan talking with a passion and weebing out
They're all "teachers" those guests. The driver, the animator, the local JAV woman, the American teacher, the English traveler, and the kawaii jack-of-all-trades ladybeard
@@bobbysworld281995 man, ladybeard was such a vibe
hasan is also a weeb for politics.
Hasan is a keyboard warrior lmao
What is “enciclopedia”???
Hasan gets so much shit online so its nice to see his episode get so much praise. If you're a new fan I recommend watching him in a podcast or a structured setting because you see all his best qualities in a hour or two. His twitch streams are a hard-core due to their length (8 hours) and the dynamic he has with chat.
I will say, Hasan's anime takes a far better than his dogshit Ukraine takes.
Bro deserves most of the shit he gets though
@@Derpy_Dutchman nah
@@ajiththomas2465 he literally had a flashing neon light on his screen for days saying Putin is bad. His point is that the war is unjustifiable on the side of Russia but was provoked by the spread of NATO, a group made in collaboration with Nazis. I don't see how this is such a bad take
@@Derpy_Dutchman because america deserved 9/11? or something else? xD