This is what's getting me about this conversation-- most of the people who've taken objection to my position here (admittedly, there's only a few who've done so by response) immediately jumped into unwarranted personal attacks... while stating no more information or argument than what I already assessed. Now, you're insulting me while repeating yourself
and me, as if I didn't say what you're pointing out only to argue that it doesn't constitute "political commentary".
At the risk of sounding insulting, myself, the people I see on the internet with this temperament are compensating for an irrational insecurity that they alleviate by trying to cast the media they consume as deeper than it is. Sometimes they don't even appreciate said media's true depths, because they think "mature" is "politics" and psychology concepts.
Yes,
I already dissected this, and I already knew you didn't see the comment where I first did because you only quoted the first comment I made. My point has been that any derivable "take-home" statement from the sequence would necessarily be aggressively banal, and I altogether made
four hypothetical intended statements in an attempt to understand the perspective.
"America is War's favorite place" is not political commentary. That's what's stated by Yoru, and the reason given by Yoru is that it gave her much of her strength (and beauty). We understand this to be the case as it's juxtaposed with Americans reconstructing nuclear weapons from scratch and using them, even though Chainsawman erased nuclear weapons. The nuclear bomb is perhaps the deadliest class of warfare weaponry, and we also understand that America has been at the vanguard of warfare R&D for nearly a century.
These are utterly basic, historical, and effectively objective statements that aren't going to be reasonably disputed. Probably except for-- ironically-- political reasons. It's of more substance that Yoru (the War Devil, the character) mystically remembered she's an Ameriboo. Also as stated, you would be able to better make the argument that political commentary was afoot if
America was depicted as desiring the War Devil--
the inverse of what is in the chapter.
This being understood as political commentary implies an unclear standard for how we're supposed to understand Yoru as a character, because it degrades her into an allegorical symbol when she largely has never been written that way throughout Part 2 (and in fact, practically none of the devils are, despite being based on fears of concepts). When do we understand her as symbol, and when do we understand her as a character, if
this is the threshold at which we consider political commentary to be occurring? I can exemplify this point with various examples, but consider the following:
What political commentary is being made when War reflexively jacks off a broken young man in a dank alleyway?
...you even glossed over me explaining the inspiration for that phrasing, which had nothing to do with 9gag. Like,
I'm not the one that used 9gag, here-- don't take that out on me.
