>>149904776
I actually like how they handled monster races and social divisions between each other and humans like it's own thing. When fiction draws direct parallels for race in 1:1 allegories they always end up infantilizing the real world issue and treating all opposition as a strawman because the whole story behind the work was to make a preachy social fable easy to consume and easy to praise.
Zootopia suffers greatly from this. It's your classic white man bad black man good and it turns very complex real issues into a toddler cartoon that fails at both exposing the irl racial issue it tries to depict in a trustworthy accurate way and in creating a worthwhile world with any deeper value to it beyond superficial frivolous messages.
Take Beastars and Attack on Titan on the other hand for example. Both succeed because they know their worlds are so different to ours that making stand-in races for real world ones to tell their struggles wouldn't be able to accurately depict them in a meaningful way and would also extremely limit the creativity, uniqueness and logic of the fictional world of the story. It's just shooting yourself in the foot narratively and a waste of time.
So instead they give each of their races real humanity and ethical shades, not absolute black and whites. By doing this the story writes itself and the social struggles feel genuine and believable, they are natural. In the end this means that you made such an organic world that the racial conflicts in it can be perfectly compared to those in the real world, not as a 1 to 1 oversimplified allegory but as its own completely unique thing that is so humanely written that you'll find it very easy to find similarities in some specific aspects of it with our real life.
