Emara: Emirates' Hero

Honestly, this looks like it might be surprisingly decent, especially considering it's coming out of the Middle East.
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>The bad guys are white

Well they kind of helped destabilize the entire region, so yeah

Lol. Yeah its totally not the savage muslism who behead people and throw gays off the roof that are the reason why that area is shit. It was all those damn white people.

The studio seems to have good enough animators but the OP seems to lazily reference a bunch of anime OPs. A number of the cuts are from Re: Cutie Honey's OP in particular.

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The OP isn't bad.

>goes form a full burka to this costume

In a scale from Halal to Haram I wonder how much of a slut she looks for these people

>Bad guys are cowboy ninjas led by a gun slinging (((accountant)))

Ok, I'm in.

Why'd you fucking want to save a freaking bastion of savage capitalism? Is she super-rich, or like she came from a family of oil sheiks or something? Maybe that's the reason she has all these technology.

Besides that commie point, I really dig the animation, even though it looks like those hentai movies when there are like 3 animations and the rest is just a static picture with a lot of after effects. I hope they get rid of that.

I get the feeling this series is being specifically made to get money from overseas waifufags, I mean what young middle eastern boy wants to watch a cartoon about a girl being the superhero?

> wonder how much of a slut she looks for these people

She's dressed as a UAE military officer.

>It was all those damn white people.
So you agree

the animation is really great.

Porn when?

>A woman dressed as a soldier
WEW LAD, well, rip everyone working in that animation studio, you will be missed

It actually isn't, objectively. A lot of in-betweens hidden by wildly different actual frames hidden by massive, erratic movement and camera shaking.

Its appealing, but its the animation equivalent of junk food, fast and cheap. Better thematically suited to stuff with a punk rock vibe like Kill la kill or Motorcity, two shows that used it to way better effect, especially considering this show will probably be all about submission to the regime and fighting against subversive elements like gays or free speech advocates.

This is basically like switching to a high-cut leotard for her

Uh, what? It looks like a flash artist made half the amount of frames he usually would.

The OP it's even in the recommended videos lol, but I like cutie honey so I dunno, if it's anything like it I'd be interested

Will Assud have a cameo?

Why's this woman walking around unsupervised by a man?

Learn your world history please.

Apparently Burka Avenger is wildly popular among kids in the ME despite a female MC, and that's in much bigger shitholes than the UAE like Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Plus you don't have to be for equal rights to like cartoons with cute girls. Look at all the incels and fundies on Sup Forums who obsess over animu despite viewing women as subhuman.

>wanting Assud instead of Farfour

In an attempt to estabilish some actual fucking order and a semblance of civilization instead of Sharia law which is downright fucking barbaric.
inb4
>muh oil
>muh whitey dun all evils
>muh war for profit
Use as many reasons demonizing the west as you want, but don't deny that the arab world is a fucking disaster. It's still stuck somewhere in the 12th century socially and politically. And we're only noticing it now because all that festering putrid sewage of their values started to leak onto ours.

>The cute as fuck mom is even whiter

It wouldn't fit in canon, user. (((They))) got him long ago. RIP in peace Farfour.

It already exists.

>the-collection.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=emara_emirates_hero

Can't wait until the west is forced to move to new energy sources and we get to watch the middle east descend into a modern medieval period as they become completely irrelevant almost immediately.

I understand how you might be confused, but this is a thread about a cartoon on Sup Forums, not Sup Forums

It's just anime. They're just blatantly ripping off anime.

Those are some pretty top-tier mook designs

Not like it's was all rainbows and sunshine before they got there

is that middle eastern Connie?

>objectively

I think you mean "technically."

Animator here. There's no such thing as objectively good or bad animation. It's an art, not a science.

Fuck mean for

Personally I blame the Ottoman Empire

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>that fucking watermark

There was also a Saudi cartoon like this that had a lot of female characters. What is it with Gulf Arabs are 1) wanting to have cartoons now and 2) having lots of female characters in them?

Ever seen what a wealthy Saudi prince looks like? Unless the badguys have names like Johnny Infidel I doubt they're supposed to be Westerners. Westerners are like 10% of the UAE's population anyway and I'm informed by SJWs that bullying minorities is supposed to be bad.

What do i need to know? Brown people are savages with backwards thinking. They have nothing a white man should ever respect. We are better than they ever could dream to be. Thats why they try to bomb and attack us.

Looks interesting. The designs are really cute, and I'm fond of that animation style.

Baitfag pls go

She is cute, I hope her show turns out well. I hope it comes at the start of Ramadan instead of the end.

This is actually objectively false though. The history of the middle east is incredibly complicated, you can't just barge in with right wing media fed views on Sharia and Muslims acting like you're more enlightened than those overly tolerant liberals.

It's also laughable when you talk about them being "stuck in the 12th century", as you're judging islamic/middle eastern history by European standards.

Just because it's an ~edgy~ opinion that reasserts your awesomeness as a western white dude doesn't give it any more truth. I'm perfectly happy to actually get into this with you and shame your imperialist ass.

especially considering this show will probably be all about submission to the regime and fighting against subversive elements like gays or free speech advocates.

Lmao these wild assumptions.

The media in the Emirates does have some degree of freedom, it's not Saudi. They like to keep up the appearance of being less openly Wahhabist to attract foreigners. A bit like how the Democrats pretend to be much less as opposed to only slightly less racist & classist than the republicans.

Pakistani family I spend a lot of time with seem to love the Burka Avenger. Introduced them to Kamala recently but it's harder to get kids into comics these days. When they're a little older they'll appreciate her more.

Again, Emirates != Saudi Arabia(and even then it can depend a lot on region)

This is the only actual decent concern, desu, the Emirates are a bit of a capitalist dystopia. Not surprising they look kinda Cyberpunk. Then again so is the US, so...

>Is she super-rich, or like she came from a family of oil sheiks or something? Maybe that's the reason she has all these technology.

She works in a cafe her family owns, no idea why she has that tech. I'm thinking she's like inspector gadget, and they stuffed all that tech in her after she almost died due to explosion/car crash/whatever.

Her costume covers up just as much skin as her civilian outfits.

IIRC Al Jazeera is UAE owned/controlled and the English language version at least has a lot of progressive takes by western standards. They're probably less biased overall than most major US news outlets in fact. The core Arabic language one is a bit weird and sectarian though.

I'm okay with this

That's a damn cute outfit.

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, which was incredibly successful and powerful for hundreds of years, Europeans drew countries based on arbitrary lines and tore apart ethnic territories in addition to placing hostile ethnic groups together. In the many decades following, the US and other white countries have had a large part in removing stable, successful regimes and replacing them with terrible dictators who so happen to be pro-US. And in addition, the ideology that causes Muslims to chimp out, Salafism, is a fairly recent development and was spread by the Saudis to exert control over the region. It is like if the US government adopted a legal system based on fundamentalist Christianity and forced its citizens to adhere to their strict interpretation of the Bible. Some Muslim nations/empires such as Iran have been intellectual powerhouses for long spans of time. Salafism and other fundamentalist interpretations of Islam are responsible for the state of many Muslim countries because radicalism is cancerous brain-rot.

There's your history lesson for today, though something tells me you won't remember it...you sound like one of those people who clings to the accomplishments of white men you aren't even related to because you haven't done anything of consequence yourself.

Then again, I think her arms are the only artifical part of her, since you can see her feet are flesh tone.

Nose is too small to be Connie.

What would you call the setting/atmosphere of this cartoon? I really love it.

those type of peoples' cultures are fundamentally broken. have you seen the current state of india? the fuck is wrong with them?

These probably haven't learned anything about history beyond what they're being taught in grade school and can't understand any idea more complicated than 'these people are BAD. my people are GOOD!'. They've got their satisfying alternative facts; why try and learn or understand something when you can just repeat maymays about it online?

D'aww. Maybe they'll translate Emara into Pashto.

The Ottoman Empire was no less stable or prosperous than any European empire. Nothing was rainbows or sunshine during that period of time.

So that bit history explains why Iraq and Syria are really fucked up right now?

You're somewhat incorrect here. Salafism is a very old concept, it means returning to the Islam of the first few Caliphs(which if done properly is actually a good thing in some ways as early Islam was very egalitarian compared to what you have now). What you're talking about is Wahhabism, a sort of Puritanical Islam founded Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. It's inherently tied with the founding of the Saudi state.

Wahhab in turn was influenced by Ibn Taymiyyah, a controversial theologions from way back in the 1200s who had similar ideas. It's of note that Taymiyyah and even al-Wahhab to an extent weren't quite as puritanical towards for example Sufism(Ibn Taymiyyah even belonged to a Sufi order at one point) as the Saudis are now.

The Saudi state is backed by the west and wealthy enough to have a lot of influence globally, which has been a large factor in the spread of conservative Islam over the last few decades. Basically - if you're in a country that doesn't give funding to a Mosque, chances are the Saudis will step in and fund it. Which is one of the reasons why you should absolutely have public funding for Mosques, if you want to combat extremism.

>reading youtube comments
>"What are her powers?? Driving a car alone??"

They're Irish kids really, raised here and speak perfect English(more coloniser shit, lol, but it has it's up sides). I'm sure it'll get english subs.

Colonialism. Do you know anything about the history of South Asia?

She is goddamn cute.

Whyyyyyyyy are you responding to yourselffffffffff

>Muslim Adam Jensen

I can kinda dig it.

>Plus you don't have to be for equal rights to like cartoons with cute girls. Look at all the incels and fundies on Sup Forums who obsess over animu despite viewing women as subhuman.

It's funny that I can tell you're a woman just from this statement. Ever think people on Sup Forums like fictional women because fictional women are designed to appeal to things men actually like, and hate real women because mostly those women are not actually likable?

Sort of but not entirely.

One thing that's important to remember is that the idea that the Middle East has always been this sectarian war zone is false. Sunnis & Shias until historically recently actually got on fairly well in many cases, and Sufis were revered.

What was said earlier about "hostile tribes" or sects isn't quite true either - it's not that they were direclty hostile to each other to begin with, but when you give one group authority over another group's territory, that's going to cause issues. Carving up the middle east into western-style nation states was a largely disastrous project, which yes, does result in the mess in Syria to some degree and the existence of the Assads.

no.
shitting in the streets and throwing your dead in the river/giant pits just seems weird to me.

but hey, it clearly makes them happy so more power to 'em I guess.

literally nobody that isn't completely gross cares about your shit opinions

western nerds hate women just as much as the Gulf states, anyway. America could turn into that sort of situation within a couple of decades if things keep going the way they are. Remember that many of these countries like Iran, Afghanistan were very different in the 60s/70s.

>salafism was founded in the 1700s
>recent

I hope your post is just elaborate bait

>just seems weird to me.

Nobody asked you Todd.

It's much, MUCH more complicated than that, but yes, Iraq and Syria are the way they are in very large part due to Western intervention. That's not to absolve Iraqis, Syrians, and Islamic doctrine of blame, but the countries would look very different if post-Ottoman borders were drawn with respect to regional ethnic groups/politics and the West stayed the fuck out of MENA affairs.

Oh, I was using salafism as a blanket term because Wahhabism is kind of a dirty word to Wahhabists. But yeah, you're right and clearly know more about it than I do.

faggot

>no qt muslim waifu

Though I would only think about dating one if I had been born a muslim anyway

Ultra-conservative Islam being as common as it is, is a modern phenomenon. Like, really modern historically speaking, 70s onwards.

Yeah, I'd say that's pretty accurate

This looks like shitty plagarism of cutie honey and bleach. A lot of it looks so heavily borrowed. Especially that shot at :32 looking ripping off bleach's intro

I'm a Sufi fag so I'm invested in knowing this stuff.

For reasons I won't get into I can't safely do Hajj because of those fuckers.

>Just because it's an ~edgy~ opinion that reasserts your awesomeness as a western white dude doesn't give it any more truth. I'm perfectly happy to actually get into this with you and shame your imperialist ass.
>posts shit like this
>thinks that anyone anywhere could ever match him in terms of faggotry

I would say kys but given the amount of unprotected assfuckery you probably get up to I'm certain you're already dying of a multitude of sexually transmitted illnesses anyway

Yes of course user, whatever you believe.

>being immune to acid attacks

>irish kids are into burka avenger

for what purpose

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Yeah, you don't have an actual argument here. You said something, history don't got your back on it, so you sink to even more edgy bullshit.

I'm sorry Sheikh Smartypants, please provide me with evidence to the contrary.

How do they air this without getting haram'd

It's set in the Emirates, and I think she'll be traveling around the whole country. In an interview, they said they wanted to show people that the UAE is more than just Dubai.

English dub and subtitles are confirmed.

>literally nobody that isn't completely gross cares about your shit opinions

This sounds like an awfully tumblr thing to say, no offense.

They're Irish-Pakistani.

That's a reaching a bit tbf. Maybe influence, but that could be intentional, trying to hit certain beats. It has a kind of old-school Go Nagai vibe to it I like.

As long as you do it in Saudi Arabia you're safe

>This sounds like an awfully tumblr thing to say, no offense.

I think we're waayyy past the point now that focusing on "tumblr" as the problem is a thing.

OOI I don't really do tumblr anymore and when I did a lot of it was fandom shit or the saner side of social justice stuff.

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>calling someone an disease-ridden homosexual
>"edgy"

I'm sorry I didn't know we were on tumblr all of a sudden.

that one's a bit more on the nose alright.

What do you want me to say?

"Man those are some hot shit opinions you got there."

Because it's still utterly pathetic and juvenile whatever words you use to describe it.

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Yeah, no

UAE is probably the most "progressive" country in the Middle East which is the result of economic necessity.
The native Emiratis are only around 20% of the total population in the UAE and their kings have tried very hard to diversity the economy since they realized early on that oil wealth would not last forever.
Most of the UAE population is made up of expats, so they don't behead people in the streets and stone women for driving.
The worst things about the UAE are that a lot of dirty money flows through the country because it's a relatively unregulated financial center and they basically use imported Indians as slave labor.
If I was going to live in any Middle Eastern country, it would be the UAE.

What's embarrassing abut the near-plagarism is that it composes nearly the entire intro. There's barely any original stuff there. That's a huge problem if the sequence your show is going to repeat over and over again has no unique identity.

and yet I bet you praise Steven Universe for originality

Killing me that out of all the things they could have picked for a modest Muslim Superhero as a template they picked Cutey Honey. the "Reactive my android body by rubbing your soft tsundere lesbian body against it" OVA.

Which I personally think is kind of awesome but w/e. Some of my views are pretty heretical these days I guess.

Not just Indians, a lot of Fillipinos and other SE Asians. Saudi does this too tho.

Personally I'm not sure I'd live somewhere like there or Dubai as again the inequality is pretty stark and I'm someone who already hovers not too far above the breadline.

if the ancapistan factor of Sup Forums didn't hate Muslims actually they might like it there. Alternately, it might be an education as to how that stuff doesn't work so well.