I know it’s not strictly anime but we can choose not to be petty fucks about animation.
Just watched S1 of this and I can’t help but see a strong allegory. Hell is literally a prison for undesirables that heaven regularly comes down into for the purposes of doing various genocidal exterminations. The population of Hell are unable to fight back. Then a major upset event occurs that makes everyone realise that heaven can bleed.
I can’t help but think all the way through this show that Hell desperately needs a liberation army to break out of their imprisonment.
Anyone seen it? Thoughts? First couple of eps felt a bit ehh but it finds its stride when it starts leaning in on being a musical and some of the characters are genuinely really fucking good, looking at you Alastor with your incredible radio voice.
Anyway if you haven’t watched it I kinda recommend it and not to be put off by the first couple eps feeling overly edgy/cringe. It finds a good rhythm after them.
Sure, if you believe that people are born Palestinian because the universe decided to punish them for their past lives and the solution to the conflict is for Palestinians to do self-crit, die, and then be reborn as Jews in Israel.
The answer is no it’s just a a classic rebellion against the divine order trope that has been going on for hundreds of years. The fact that the sinners aren’t masters of their own fate does not change the fact that most of them are still horrible people. Fucking cannibal town ring a bell? Angel Dust, probably the most sympathetic of the main cast, was still a murderer and gang member in their past life. If someone said this anywhere but hexbear, I would think they were shitting on Palestine.