I can't believe Japanese are still at it. Spewing out stuff artificially promoting motherhood, degrading women into baby factories which are simply obliged to marry a man. And I thought this was over with Darling In The Franxx. Apparently not.
Not to mention the Earth is already undergoing an overpopulation crisis. Though mainly in other areas than Japan...
Humankind is like a train. No matter how powerful the locomotive is, it can only travel as fast as its slowest car allows it to.
Darling In The Franxx features one character who is interested in being a mother, in a world where sterility is enforced and the concept of romantic love no longer exists. Furthermore, the main girl — who is clearly intended to be the center of the viewer's attention and affection — explicitly says she can't have children. Shockingly, the male protagonist does not immediately dump her as a useless waste of non-functional womanhood.
Just because you are filled with simmering rage at real world overpopulation does not mean that the existence of any female character who shows the faintest interest in having a child equates to a story "spewing" the "artificial promotion" of motherhood. Nor does it "degrade" women to baby factories.
While I'm not especially interested in this series, I'm always a bit skeptical about reviews that are this negative, particularly those that make claims about the Unfortunate Implications involved in the making of the series. It's hard to tell whether the reviewer is exaggerating and/or misreading the series.
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Anzu Hoshino is a high schooler who cares only for video games, chocolate & her cat, and has no interest in romantic relationships until a creepy wizard named Riri comes out of her TV. Riri takes away her ability to enjoy her few pleasures to try and force her to care about romantic relationships with a man so she can have babies with him, because Japan has a declining birth rate. (Ignoring the many societal reasons for the declining birth rate in Japan) Her father is also transferred to the US and her mother goes along with him and takes the cat.
So she's forced to live without the few pleasures in her life or her parents because the creepiest asshole since Kyubey wants her to get pregnant and keeps creating cliche dating sim situations to make this happen. Which is a shame because Anzu & Tsukasa are interesting characters and there was potential for an interesting story.