flimsy

I have a huge soft spot for this anime. I’m not even projecting this time ! I just think it’s really sapphic to spend an entire show singing songs to and with each other about how special your connection is and how nothing is more loving and understanding than the relationship you have with each other. And because I am always on a polyam/throuple propoganda moment, of COURSE I believe their love would also include Angela. Of course, of course.

I know the second season is all about racism and immigration rights and censorship, and that's what people remember this show for, but god the first season is so vehemetely anti-AI for being made before the current "AI" thing ever began... It's a world where AI is everywhere but consistently fails to be anything but mediocre at best. The good pizza place is the one that grows their own tomatoes on the roof. The songs that inspired Gus when he was young were written by a disabled intersex man on his one piano. The thing that makes the girls' music good is that they write it with passion, about their feelings and their lived experiences. And even in that fictional future with hyper-advanced technology, that's something AI can not imitate.