Audience reviews
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BurtRocks
The Leader was an experience. Not a good one, mind you, but at least I could feel my social credit increasing as the minutes passed. I wouldn’t even force my worst enemy to watch this twice in a row; that’d be a fate worse than death.
From a production standpoint, this show fails across the board. The music was often nonexistent or so forgettable that it might as well not have been there (aside from the ED, someone cooked with that). The animation may genuinely be the worst thing I have ever seen. The majority of it’s CG, with quality way worse than something from the PS2 era of games. These movements were so unnaturally rigid: models would have a few frames of movement as they strike a pose, and then just completely freeze there in place for many seconds after that. Other times, the staf…
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State capitalism in china is very successful. so successful that the government is facing a paradox: how can it keep calling itself the communist party when the youth is so focused on making money and showing their elevated consumer status ?
This anime is the answer:
1. make the leader a cool and trendy philosopher (clothing, music), keep the grit, drop the science.
2. draw the leader as an exotic individual, attractive but not chinese: the chinese cannot be universal, they shall be specific
3. don't dive into the study, do not explain. criticism shall stay manageable by emerging only from the gifted few
3. insist on social status, virtue and membership
4. kowtow to the new leaders who ditch the internationale and administer special treatment to the special people
a recipe to raise commu…
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I’ve never thought that the first Chinese anime I watch would be a two hours worth of CCP funded biography of Karl Marx. I’ve also never thought that I would ever reccomend any communist propaganda before but in the end, here I am.
If you're history guy (or paid the slightest attention in history classes) you would’ve probably known Karl Marx and his ideals already, but this seven-episode series covers the chapters of his life, which are unsurprisingly quite augmented (especially the narrator, who often praises excessively), we all know that Marx is a famous leftist philosopher but I'm certain that some events in his life didn't resolve the same way it did in the show. But afterall, this is obvious communist propaganda and they had to squeeze in lots of communist aspects into a couple min…
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I enjoyed this show but I could not honestly recommend it to anyone, even as a fan of Karl Marx and his ideas, this show was disappointing, firstly, it is unavoidable how technically poor this show looks, the 2d and 3d art clashing an unbelievable amount, with every scene seeming to have at least one switch between the two, and the animation in the latter is stiff and robotic, meaning you have a lot of trouble seeing any of these characters as people, especially in the first four episodes.
For me episodes 1-4 were somewhat bland and uninspired, but inoffensive, some of the discussion of philosophy was so poorly placed that it was embarrassing to watch, and the pacing was noticeably pretty bad, alongside the fact that Marx himself didn't change visually at all for the three episodes, over…
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The leader is a masterpiece. It tells the life story of the great philosopher Karl Marx in painstakingly personal detail. It tells how the immortal science of Marxism got its roots, and how the life around Marx impacted his conclusions and decisions in the making of mankind’s greatest scientific work, Das Kapital.
Besides the pursuit of knowledge and answers to stop the bourgeoisie exploitation, The Leader also tells the personal life of Karl Marx in detail. We have deeply emotional situations and humane relationships. If this piece of art doesn’t make you cry your heart out at least once, you have no soul. Even if you are deeply indoctrinated into an imperialist capitalist system, if you still feel no remorse towards these characters, Marx, Engels and Jenny among them after what they’ve…
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When I first saw it, I couldn't believe there actually existed an anime that focused only on Karl Marx's life & biography. Then I watched it, and the fact that it was Chinese made sense. It made me a little upset - after all, it was a kind of propaganda. Also, as seen in the anime, Marx-kun didn't like many compliments, and you know what? This anime is basically it!
With my first comment said - this "piece of art" is 147 hours of praises and compliments, telling us that Marx-kun was the BEST PHILOSOPHER EVER and stuff (honestly I disagree with that but it's a Chinese anime btw, probably the budget was all covered by the Communist Party), I'll tell you guys the truth about "The Leader".
The animation is poor sometimes. Yeah, only sometimes. Actually, many times. When it's not focused on M…
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This January there was some strange news from China, the airing of a Karl Marx animated series usually called Karl Marx the anime, but actually titled The Leader. There was quite a bit of fuss on news sites and social media, but oddly once episodes started floating around the net it quickly disappeared. It doesn't seem to have gained much traction even in the circles that make image reactions and jokes.
I found a youtube channel that not only uploaded all seven episodes but had also fansubbed the Chinese dialogue into English and Russian. I watched the whole show, and I think I see why it didn't last. Using the channel statistics as a guide, episode one has 100,000+ views, episode 2 though plummeted to 15,000 and the drop continued with the last episode getting around 7,000. There's a lot…
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The Leader is a work with the ability to set any revolutionary's heart alight with pride. It is not often that these kinds of cartoons carry with them such weight, but this is no ordinary cartoon. It is a work designed to inspire a new generation of Marxists to carry forth the torch of Communism to a brighter tomorrow.
I was deeply impressed by the characterization of Marx and his comrades. This show is not just a picture of Marx, it is a mirror in which the audience can see themselves reflected in the actions of Marx and the revolutionaries of the past. The Leader makes Marx more than just a face in a textbook, it makes him human.
Technically, the show is lacking in many aspects. The art is sub-par, with the transition between 2d and 3d being quite jarring at times. The sound design a…
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Welcome to Karl Marx the animation: The Daddy of Communism.
The premise of the show stated that the anime is made to commemorate Marx 200th anniversary with a serious tone, while most of people (in the west) is taking the piss out of it. I can’t unseen that joke someone made on tumblr calling this as Xi Jinping’s way of making communism appealing to the younger generation, as hilarious and meme like that text post was, some truth lies underneath it. One simple click on Google will tell you that the anime is in fact funded by multiple government authorities, ie. The Government’s Marxism Office. It’s definitely propaganda alright. After more clicks around the internet and watching the anime myself, I don’t really understand who the target audience is.
Responses from the public:
Since I ne…
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