The last thing we watched, cartoon/animu edition
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Saturday morning 1993 to '94 Sonic the Hedgehog isn't really Sonic. He's highly stylized, with only a few needles on his back and blue skin, while every other Freedom Fighter is just a regular talking cartoon animal. That's also why they all blink correctly while the white of his single eye is never covered. Animators didn't know what else to do with that. Sega's designs always had actual eyelids. The idea of Sally's former kingdom being turned into Robotnik's city, as illustrated by the opening, is cool, but when they're carrying out their operations together it kind of just feels more like Star Wars. Only regular enemies being uniform stormtrooper-likes doesn't help. They changed Robotnik's design and made Tails a minor character to distance it from the video game aesthetic. World is obviously much more realistic than in the video games and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
At least he's not overpowered like in the other cartoon. His buzz saw roll with the saw sound is still there, but doesn't appear to cut anymore. Find the electric sound of his running overdone.
It's alright. I vaguely remember these first three episodes or can predict like I've seen it in the not too distant past, even though it's been a lifetime. Knew Uncle Chuck would lose himself again before they escaped. I remembered the theme that often plays when they're in Robotnik's city, partly because my big brother and I sometimes "sang" it, but it was more orchestral in my memories.
At least he's not overpowered like in the other cartoon. His buzz saw roll with the saw sound is still there, but doesn't appear to cut anymore. Find the electric sound of his running overdone.
It's alright. I vaguely remember these first three episodes or can predict like I've seen it in the not too distant past, even though it's been a lifetime. Knew Uncle Chuck would lose himself again before they escaped. I remembered the theme that often plays when they're in Robotnik's city, partly because my big brother and I sometimes "sang" it, but it was more orchestral in my memories.
I found out today that another episode of There She Is! (the old flash animation about a cat and a rabbit falling in love with each other) had been released to the public.
I'm saddened to say that it was not one of the better ones. Of the original 5 episodes I though step 4 was the worst for two reasons:
I'm saddened to say that it was not one of the better ones. Of the original 5 episodes I though step 4 was the worst for two reasons:
- Because it was less about the hijinks of two characters in love with bigotry lurking in the background and more the bigotry on the forefront which puts me in a bad mood.
- Because the format for the videos is not the best for complex storytelling leaving me confused.
Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)
A while ago I wrote that I love this series way more than I have any right to as a straight guy. Which is, of course, I did somewhat in jest but not without reason. Reading reviews on Utena, you'll find a wide variety of people sharing their personal anecdotes about how much its portrayal of characters and relationships that defy social norms in regards to gender and sexuality means to them as members of gender or sexual minority groups themselves, how it helped them find themselves and come to terms with who they are. Now, like every other good little leftist, there was a point in my life where I contemplated my gender and my sexuality and like most, I didn't come across anything especially interesting. Apart from a brief period in my teens where I identified as asexual, which passed and even though I do enjoy sex, I still find talking or reading about it more fun than actually having it, I'm not anywhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum even by the most generous definition. Which did lead me to some soul searching: Why, exactly, does Utena, an allegorical story about love between to women, one of whom rejects, to some, extent, classical feminity, mean so much to me, a cisgender, heterosexual man?
I watched it in a formative time of my life. My late teens, if I recall correctly. The same time I watched another anime series that got me into anime and still stands as one of my personal favorites, Serial Experiment Lain. But I can articulate why I love Lain quite easily, it encompasses a lot of what had at that point already been some of my favourite themes and stylistic traits in fiction. Surrealism, paranoia, conspiracy theories, psychological horror, angst, social alienation, metaphysics and techno-mysticism. I couldn't be more perfectly in that series' target audience if I tried.
Utena is by all means a less obvious choice. Revolutionary Girl Utena is the story of titular tomboy Utena Tenjou. Utena is a student at Ohtori Academy, a palatial boarding school surrounded by an unnamed town. At this school she comes across Anthy Himemiya, a timid girl tending to the campus' roses. She soon finds out that Anthy is trapped in the position of the so called "Rose Bride" treated as a price in a dueling competition seemingly set up by the student council held in a magical arena on a platform beneath an illusory upside down fairy tale castle. She resolves to liberate her from this inhumane treatment and ends up actually falling in love with her, leading her unravel the dark secrets of Ohtori Academy and its student body as well as the mystery of her faint childhood memory of a fairy tale prince who came to console her after the death of her parents.
So, of course there is still the surrealism and in a sense even the angst, albeit wrapped in a rose scented embrace of sapphic romance, fairy tale symbolism and baroque, neo-clacissist kitsch. But instead of being a story about politics or social dynamics or occult conspiracies (but I repeat myself), Utena is a story about love. I'm not ashamed to admit that love is something I don't know very much about and what I do know about it is rather painful. But nevertheless there is a part of me that considers myself a romantic and I think one of the only reasons I managed to accept that part of myself is because I saw this show at a pivotal point in my life.
So, Utena is a story about love. However, it's not exclusively about the love between Utena and Anthy, although that's obviously at the center of it all. Love, both its kind and its cruel side, the requited and unrequited type, the sincere and the manipulative kind, is in some form or another the driving motivation of every single character. Utena wants to liberate Anthy out of love, while everyone holding her captive is doing it, in their way, for the same reason. And what writer and director Kunihiko Ikuhara so beautifully illustrates is that despite loves potential to corrupt, there is nothing greater than its capacity to redeem.
Ikuhara creates his own audiovisual language, both classical and modern, both operatic and intimate, both baroque and pop. Roses and shadow plays projected on walls to serve as a greek chorus, sports cars and mystical castles, sword fights while the soundtrack is playing an operatic rock song about the darkness of Sodom, biblical symbolism and Disney-esque whimsy next to psychosexual anxiety. The production value of Utena isn't tremendously high (aside from the movie which I... have mixed feelings about) but the vision carries is not just over the finish line but into the the Olympus of not just anime but cinema in general.
Revolutionary Girl Utena is to romance what 2001: A Space Odyssey is to Science-Fiction. It doesn't just follow its genre to its logical conclusion it elevates it to something transcendent, something spiritual. The poet Virgil was the one who coined the phrase "Love conquers all" and british mystic Aleister Crowley was the one who stated that "Love is the law. Love under will" but Kunihiko Ikuhara was the person to expand those into a comprehensive thesis. Utena is dedicated to both its destructive and its redemptive potential. It's a holistic treatise on the idea of romantic love as a metaphysical force (his almost equally brilliant follow-up Mawaru Penguindrum doing something similar for familial love) and a work I find as inspiring now as I did when I first saw it.
A while ago I wrote that I love this series way more than I have any right to as a straight guy. Which is, of course, I did somewhat in jest but not without reason. Reading reviews on Utena, you'll find a wide variety of people sharing their personal anecdotes about how much its portrayal of characters and relationships that defy social norms in regards to gender and sexuality means to them as members of gender or sexual minority groups themselves, how it helped them find themselves and come to terms with who they are. Now, like every other good little leftist, there was a point in my life where I contemplated my gender and my sexuality and like most, I didn't come across anything especially interesting. Apart from a brief period in my teens where I identified as asexual, which passed and even though I do enjoy sex, I still find talking or reading about it more fun than actually having it, I'm not anywhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum even by the most generous definition. Which did lead me to some soul searching: Why, exactly, does Utena, an allegorical story about love between to women, one of whom rejects, to some, extent, classical feminity, mean so much to me, a cisgender, heterosexual man?
I watched it in a formative time of my life. My late teens, if I recall correctly. The same time I watched another anime series that got me into anime and still stands as one of my personal favorites, Serial Experiment Lain. But I can articulate why I love Lain quite easily, it encompasses a lot of what had at that point already been some of my favourite themes and stylistic traits in fiction. Surrealism, paranoia, conspiracy theories, psychological horror, angst, social alienation, metaphysics and techno-mysticism. I couldn't be more perfectly in that series' target audience if I tried.
Utena is by all means a less obvious choice. Revolutionary Girl Utena is the story of titular tomboy Utena Tenjou. Utena is a student at Ohtori Academy, a palatial boarding school surrounded by an unnamed town. At this school she comes across Anthy Himemiya, a timid girl tending to the campus' roses. She soon finds out that Anthy is trapped in the position of the so called "Rose Bride" treated as a price in a dueling competition seemingly set up by the student council held in a magical arena on a platform beneath an illusory upside down fairy tale castle. She resolves to liberate her from this inhumane treatment and ends up actually falling in love with her, leading her unravel the dark secrets of Ohtori Academy and its student body as well as the mystery of her faint childhood memory of a fairy tale prince who came to console her after the death of her parents.
So, of course there is still the surrealism and in a sense even the angst, albeit wrapped in a rose scented embrace of sapphic romance, fairy tale symbolism and baroque, neo-clacissist kitsch. But instead of being a story about politics or social dynamics or occult conspiracies (but I repeat myself), Utena is a story about love. I'm not ashamed to admit that love is something I don't know very much about and what I do know about it is rather painful. But nevertheless there is a part of me that considers myself a romantic and I think one of the only reasons I managed to accept that part of myself is because I saw this show at a pivotal point in my life.
So, Utena is a story about love. However, it's not exclusively about the love between Utena and Anthy, although that's obviously at the center of it all. Love, both its kind and its cruel side, the requited and unrequited type, the sincere and the manipulative kind, is in some form or another the driving motivation of every single character. Utena wants to liberate Anthy out of love, while everyone holding her captive is doing it, in their way, for the same reason. And what writer and director Kunihiko Ikuhara so beautifully illustrates is that despite loves potential to corrupt, there is nothing greater than its capacity to redeem.
Ikuhara creates his own audiovisual language, both classical and modern, both operatic and intimate, both baroque and pop. Roses and shadow plays projected on walls to serve as a greek chorus, sports cars and mystical castles, sword fights while the soundtrack is playing an operatic rock song about the darkness of Sodom, biblical symbolism and Disney-esque whimsy next to psychosexual anxiety. The production value of Utena isn't tremendously high (aside from the movie which I... have mixed feelings about) but the vision carries is not just over the finish line but into the the Olympus of not just anime but cinema in general.
Revolutionary Girl Utena is to romance what 2001: A Space Odyssey is to Science-Fiction. It doesn't just follow its genre to its logical conclusion it elevates it to something transcendent, something spiritual. The poet Virgil was the one who coined the phrase "Love conquers all" and british mystic Aleister Crowley was the one who stated that "Love is the law. Love under will" but Kunihiko Ikuhara was the person to expand those into a comprehensive thesis. Utena is dedicated to both its destructive and its redemptive potential. It's a holistic treatise on the idea of romantic love as a metaphysical force (his almost equally brilliant follow-up Mawaru Penguindrum doing something similar for familial love) and a work I find as inspiring now as I did when I first saw it.
New anime season!
Sakamoto Days - Been excited for this one, although I only read a bit of the manga. But given how studios usually put their best foot forward for premiere episodes, I'm not exactly confident for how the rest of the show will look. It felt and looked pretty generic and cheap for the most part. Hope it gets better.
Apothecary Diaries - I missed this cast. Also, cute cat!
Solo Levelling - At the very least, it makes for entertaining if mindless action. The original manhwa might not have been a masterpiece but I maintain that this adaptation isn't quite living up to it yet.
Sakamoto Days - Been excited for this one, although I only read a bit of the manga. But given how studios usually put their best foot forward for premiere episodes, I'm not exactly confident for how the rest of the show will look. It felt and looked pretty generic and cheap for the most part. Hope it gets better.
Apothecary Diaries - I missed this cast. Also, cute cat!
Solo Levelling - At the very least, it makes for entertaining if mindless action. The original manhwa might not have been a masterpiece but I maintain that this adaptation isn't quite living up to it yet.
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie - Still one of the game to movie adaptions ever made, and still one of the best fight game movies ever made. The worst you can say is that the movie has 3 minutes of padding. That's it. The soundtrack for the US still holds up great, even though it's a product of the 90s. The Japanese soundtrack is good, but doesn't fit the movie and is too typical J-pop/J-rock. The English dubbing still stands heads and shoulders, even though certain characters like Dee Jay and Cammy should have Jamaican and British accents respectively. And the fight scenes? Pure God-like!
This movie would define Street Fighter's look for decades giving the franchise a more anime style starting with Alpha/Zero, and not changing fully until Street Fighter 6. It also inspired several additions or changes in backstories for specific character that would be added into the games. This movie's 2 vs. 1 final fight scene also inspired Dramatic Battle in the Alpha series and Ultra Street Fighter II. I just watched the Blu-Ray edition for the first time, and it comes with all of these cool bonuses where you can even switch the soundtracks for the respective dubs. This edition is like Super Street Fighter II Turbo for movies. Ironic, I know where each new release gets all of these cool new updates and bonuses previous releases lacked. You can even watch the PG-13 cuts, if you want. I have not done that since the late 90s and have no need to go back to that.
This a S-Rank adaption to a game franchise that had little plot at the time. See this movie, if you have not. At least once as a fighting game fan, a video game fan, or all the above.
This movie would define Street Fighter's look for decades giving the franchise a more anime style starting with Alpha/Zero, and not changing fully until Street Fighter 6. It also inspired several additions or changes in backstories for specific character that would be added into the games. This movie's 2 vs. 1 final fight scene also inspired Dramatic Battle in the Alpha series and Ultra Street Fighter II. I just watched the Blu-Ray edition for the first time, and it comes with all of these cool bonuses where you can even switch the soundtracks for the respective dubs. This edition is like Super Street Fighter II Turbo for movies. Ironic, I know where each new release gets all of these cool new updates and bonuses previous releases lacked. You can even watch the PG-13 cuts, if you want. I have not done that since the late 90s and have no need to go back to that.
This a S-Rank adaption to a game franchise that had little plot at the time. See this movie, if you have not. At least once as a fighting game fan, a video game fan, or all the above.
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I watched the first season and was thoroughly underwhelmed. I probably won't bother with season 2. Everything about it felt like generic fantasy wish fulfillment.
Did you finish the first season? I was pretty underwhelmed by it as well, and dropped it for a few months. I decided to fast forward through most of it to get to the good bits. For season 2 though, I was surprised to see how fast the pacing is. They completed an entire arc in just two episodes.
But yeah it really is more of the same, I don't think it's worth watching for you.
I imported Future Boy Conan. Spent the evening ripping the four UHD discs and splitting the 26 episodes (because each disc has a single M2TS stream for the six episodes, which makes for annoyingly long seekbars on Blu-ray players). Continuing my rambling about grain management that ended on page 84, it was applied with more care here. There's not such loss of detail as in Dirty Pair, Vampire Hunter D, Lupin III (1972), The Castle of Cagliostro, Akira, Cowboy Bebop (Funimation) and so many others. An example for the others to look up to.
Watched it in 2016, liked it a lot.
Watched it in 2016, liked it a lot.
What a wonderful Season 2! There is no time wasted, nor does this season feel rushed. I have 0 complaints. Nocturne has pretty much surpassed the original Castlevania for me.
Never mind, Sonic overpowered in this cartoon as well, only not as much. Pushed a raft with the heroes on it straight up a waterfall by running fast and sawed deep through the ground twice so far, like Knuckles x10.
"Uh... Sonic?"
He can't be sleeping, right? His eyes are open.
Creepy, those eyes within eyes. Really not drawn for American animators, which is why all the other animals look so much more ordinary.
This dive was so Star Wars. The weird characters, the weird music. Star Wars meets Terminator, with Sonic in it. Not really Sonic.
It is entertaining.
"Uh... Sonic?"
He can't be sleeping, right? His eyes are open.
Creepy, those eyes within eyes. Really not drawn for American animators, which is why all the other animals look so much more ordinary.
This dive was so Star Wars. The weird characters, the weird music. Star Wars meets Terminator, with Sonic in it. Not really Sonic.
It is entertaining.
Please do not insult your fellow forum users.
Nobody asked you you fucking inbred retard.
Never mind, Sonic overpowered in this cartoon as well, only not as much. Pushed a raft with the heroes on it straight up a waterfall by running fast and sawed deep through the ground twice so far, like Knuckles x10.
"Uh... Sonic?"
He can't be sleeping, right? His eyes are open.
Creepy, those eyes within eyes. Really not drawn for American animators, which is why all the other animals look so much more ordinary.
This dive was so Star Wars. The weird characters, the weird music. Star Wars meets Terminator, with Sonic in it. Not really Sonic.
It is entertaining.
Ofcourse your austistic dumbass is a Sonic fan. You might as well be self reporting.
I didn't even remember the dragon with the nose ring, Dulcy, in the second of two seasons. She sucks. Terrible.
The two-parter "Blast from the Past" features a child Antoine. He's been unable to speak English for ten years. Should not have appeared in these time travel episodes. Should have left him out so that viewers could assume he was still a new immigrant.
I searched for images and found that Archie Comics gave him eyelids as well. Most of the time. This early American commercial also gave him eyelids.
So the animators of the Jaleel White cartoons are almost alone in their failure.
The two-parter "Blast from the Past" features a child Antoine. He's been unable to speak English for ten years. Should not have appeared in these time travel episodes. Should have left him out so that viewers could assume he was still a new immigrant.
I searched for images and found that Archie Comics gave him eyelids as well. Most of the time. This early American commercial also gave him eyelids.
So the animators of the Jaleel White cartoons are almost alone in their failure.
Arknights: Prelude to Dawn (2022)
First adaptation of the Chinese Arknights multimedia franchise, its core property being the mobile strategy game by the same name, the opening of which this adapts.
Prelude to Dawn feels largely exactly like what it is, an attempt to adapt part of a tremendously long story with a very large cast of characters and a very complicated setting in a rather short series. All of which is to say... you'll get the gist of who these characters and nations are and what's going on between them but don't expect to get any kind of thorough overview.
So, Prelude to Dawn is set in the world of Terra. As its name suggests, a place that's basically earth, except weirder and worse. Well. The circumstances are worse. The people are about as bad as they're here. The people of Terra rely on a magical mineral called originium as a an all purpose plot device that acts as source of power for just about everything. Unfortunately exposure to this material causes a highly contagious sickness called oripathy in people that makes them develop tumorous growth of black crystal on their body that precedes their total petrifaction and hence, death. Accordingly, those who suffer from oripathy are widely treated as outcasts, similar to lepers or plague victims. The story follows the troops of a militarized medical outfit called Rhodes Island on an operation to defend against an extremist group of oripathy victims and recover a VIP in the border regions of two countries respectively bases on Russia and China.
I rather like Arknight's art direction. It's sleek and militaristic and futuristic, but in a very utilitarian, almost austere, way. There is sort of a Kojima/Shinkawa feel to its settings and technologies. Which is all contrasted, of course, with a cast that consists primarily of cute girls with animal ears. Which is one of those things that eventually, you'll just take for granted but at least in the beginning, will feel a bit jarring. As will some other of its quirks. The protagonist of the game is based on is a practically faceless and mostly silent person called Doctor who is... just kind of around in the anime and as we learn, Rhodes Island's primary strategist but gets little characterization and screen time.
Which, to be fair, can be said for a lot of the characters. It has an ensemble cast and a pretty short runtime so you'll only get the bare essentials of what these people roles and back stories are. Although it does help that they do all tend to have relatively memorable character designs. Which, I suppose, should go without saying, considering the nature of the game they're from.
What also helps is that this series has, frankly, unreasonably nice cinematography and animation. While the action is more restrained than you might expect from an action anime it's all framed ridiculously well. You can almost smell the blood, dust and gunpowder. It's both aesthetic and gritty, I dig it a lot. The music is, likewise, very moody and impactful.
What I will say though is that it's definitely made for an audience of people already familiar with that story who'll be happy to see a well produced compilation of some of its key moments. In my opinion, it doesn't quite have enough context and character development to really get someone not already invested in it to care about them. What I'm saying is, Prelude to Dawn hints at an interesting world and interesting characters but it only presents their very surface. I don't think it's a very good introduction into this series, if I'm being honest.
First adaptation of the Chinese Arknights multimedia franchise, its core property being the mobile strategy game by the same name, the opening of which this adapts.
Prelude to Dawn feels largely exactly like what it is, an attempt to adapt part of a tremendously long story with a very large cast of characters and a very complicated setting in a rather short series. All of which is to say... you'll get the gist of who these characters and nations are and what's going on between them but don't expect to get any kind of thorough overview.
So, Prelude to Dawn is set in the world of Terra. As its name suggests, a place that's basically earth, except weirder and worse. Well. The circumstances are worse. The people are about as bad as they're here. The people of Terra rely on a magical mineral called originium as a an all purpose plot device that acts as source of power for just about everything. Unfortunately exposure to this material causes a highly contagious sickness called oripathy in people that makes them develop tumorous growth of black crystal on their body that precedes their total petrifaction and hence, death. Accordingly, those who suffer from oripathy are widely treated as outcasts, similar to lepers or plague victims. The story follows the troops of a militarized medical outfit called Rhodes Island on an operation to defend against an extremist group of oripathy victims and recover a VIP in the border regions of two countries respectively bases on Russia and China.
I rather like Arknight's art direction. It's sleek and militaristic and futuristic, but in a very utilitarian, almost austere, way. There is sort of a Kojima/Shinkawa feel to its settings and technologies. Which is all contrasted, of course, with a cast that consists primarily of cute girls with animal ears. Which is one of those things that eventually, you'll just take for granted but at least in the beginning, will feel a bit jarring. As will some other of its quirks. The protagonist of the game is based on is a practically faceless and mostly silent person called Doctor who is... just kind of around in the anime and as we learn, Rhodes Island's primary strategist but gets little characterization and screen time.
Which, to be fair, can be said for a lot of the characters. It has an ensemble cast and a pretty short runtime so you'll only get the bare essentials of what these people roles and back stories are. Although it does help that they do all tend to have relatively memorable character designs. Which, I suppose, should go without saying, considering the nature of the game they're from.
What also helps is that this series has, frankly, unreasonably nice cinematography and animation. While the action is more restrained than you might expect from an action anime it's all framed ridiculously well. You can almost smell the blood, dust and gunpowder. It's both aesthetic and gritty, I dig it a lot. The music is, likewise, very moody and impactful.
What I will say though is that it's definitely made for an audience of people already familiar with that story who'll be happy to see a well produced compilation of some of its key moments. In my opinion, it doesn't quite have enough context and character development to really get someone not already invested in it to care about them. What I'm saying is, Prelude to Dawn hints at an interesting world and interesting characters but it only presents their very surface. I don't think it's a very good introduction into this series, if I'm being honest.
Have a free Amazon Prime membership now, so I watched the first episode of Batman: Caped Crusader. Don't think I will continue. The digital animation looks so cheap. The thick outlines of Batman's eyes don't work at all. 1940s setting, but colored people everywhere. Everywhere. Several in positions of authority. Women too. Why even use the setting then? Could have touched on the racism and sexism back then, but no, had to make up history completely. Black Gordon and lawyer Barbara Gordon bothered me especially. They made her hair light despite her dark skin. Mrs. Cobblepot (Penguin, another character destruction) kills one of her sons for informing on her, which is illogical. The child she carried in her womb, gave birth to, gave so much of herself to.
Depressing move for Bruce Timm. To go back to old material, Batman again.
Was surprised by the commercial break. Screw streaming.
Animation quality is so bad in this age of cheap streaming platforms competing. Digital looked cheap anyway, but now it's worse.
Depressing move for Bruce Timm. To go back to old material, Batman again.
Was surprised by the commercial break. Screw streaming.
Animation quality is so bad in this age of cheap streaming platforms competing. Digital looked cheap anyway, but now it's worse.
They use the 40s for aesthetic mainly. Same as BTAS did. As for how could Penguin kill a child that was hers? My brother in Christ that happens with mothers (and fathers) who aren’t ruthless gangsters. And many a crime lord has murdered family for informing; it’s a thing. Which if you’d watched The Sopranos - you know that show your forum avatar is from - you’d know that.
Tony killing Christopher isn't comparable. There, spoiled. Not his son, only his nephew, wasn't in his womb, didn't tear through his vagina. Also far better justified, through character and events. Here it happens without any needed sense of importance.
Batman is based on the real world. Bullshitting their way through history for DEI is lame. Was far less abrasive in Batman the Animated Series, which was more stuck in time with brutalist architecture but many modern tech elements. Not like slavery hasn't been acknowledged in Batman and the world isn't built upon a similar history to ours. Batman Begins mentioned the underground railroad. Justice League (the cartoon) had a fascist European empire in the 1940s with a Hitler lookalike.
Batman is based on the real world. Bullshitting their way through history for DEI is lame. Was far less abrasive in Batman the Animated Series, which was more stuck in time with brutalist architecture but many modern tech elements. Not like slavery hasn't been acknowledged in Batman and the world isn't built upon a similar history to ours. Batman Begins mentioned the underground railroad. Justice League (the cartoon) had a fascist European empire in the 1940s with a Hitler lookalike.
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Didn't Livia spend like two seasons plotting to murder Tony?
Its still just aesthetics. Also I think one reason they're doing the 40s is to scale back the available technology. Like you consider the kind of technology we can do now and then extrapolate that out with setting appropriate super science that Bruce would have access to and unless they write it really well, it kind of kills a lot of tension in detective fiction.
So what we're looking at here is simply an Elseworlds setting. Because I don't imagine they're terribly interested in animating Bruce Wayne frowning every time his social circle start dropping slurs.