Growing up in the 2000s fucked my brain hard. The sexism, homophobia and racism coupled with the free-range parenting that was simultaneously neglectful while gaslighting everyone into thinking that it was too coddling, and an internet that simply did not give a fuck who it traumatized. All topped off with a resurgence of Western jingoism from the “war in terror”.
The only good thing about that period was some of the videogames were okay I guess but only if you avoid ANYTHING remotely military flavoured. A lot of shit outside of Nintendo was afraid of colour and everything was that washed out brown. Just a miserable time. Everyone was so uncreative and the world had some fucked up Southpark brainworms.
The only thing I know (courtesy of a friend) about that anime is that one of the early episodes apparently involves a false SV accusation as a plot point, which made me want to stay far away from it
Yes, although it’s extremely minor and nothing about how it’s presented is saying it’s OK. There’s some male-gaze stuff here and there, although it’s definitely less bad about it than almost any other anime.