Alpha Quadrant Types in Anime

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The Wind Rises. Jiro is LII.

Set mostly during the 1930s and loosely based on the story of Jiro Horikoshi, an aeronautical engineer and designer of the Mitsubishi Zero fighter. The story tackles the theme of wanting to create in spite of the potentially destructive uses of that creation. The Mitsubishi Zero was a master-stroke of engineering innovation, combining long-range and manoeuvrability, and became legendary as one of the most lethal fighters of World War Two.

Jiro is stoic, lucid, and unconventional and is IMO a poster-boy for LII. His personal life was, however, highly fictionalized:

 

Jiro's real wife didn't actually die from tuberculosis.

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Grave of the Fireflies. Seita is ESE (I think).

Two young children try to survive on their own during the American bombing of Japan in World War Two. I'm not terribly confident of his type, but Seita really embodies the role of a caretaker, and could easily be characterized as being highly trusting, overly sacrificing, and naively optimistic. I'm avoiding typing his younger sister since it's probably a bad idea to type toddlers.

This is definitively the saddest film I have ever seen, which is all the more impressive seeing as how it's a cartoon. It doesn't pull any punches in confronting you with the realities of being a civilian inside a war zone. It's such a heavy film that it almost made me cry; me --- a soulless Fi PoLR. Watch it until the end if you want to become a better person.

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Seita seemed Fi-valuing but I'll have to re-watch it before I type him any further. Which will be difficult, because the first time I watched Grave of the Fireflies, I was with my younger sister, and you can probably imagine how that turned out. It's a fantastic film, though. Probably one of Ghibli's best.


I think Zoë Hange from Attack on Titan is ILE.

Hange is a quirky researcher with an insatiable curiosity for the inner-workings of the "monsters" her team captures. But, unlike her teammates, she doesn't place negative value judgments on them. Nor does she fear them. And it's due to this lack of judgment and fear that she was able to yield an impressive amount of information and research. An energetic free-wheeling thinker with peculiar research methods. Chatterbox. There's even a scene where she keeps the protagonist up all night, enthusiastically relaying to him all the research she's done. Driven by knowledge and a desire to benefit humanity at large. Even if it comes at the expense of her own life. Observant, cunning, and witty, and yet incredibly caring. Thrives under pressure.

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I'm going guess Lain. Hilariously exaggerated though. Or not hillarious. Depends on your perspective. Also, I could be wrong. If not, probably Gamma. One of the two, I don't know.

Serial Experiments Lain is the anime.

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Seita seemed Fi-valuing but I'll have to re-watch it before I type him any further.

Hm; I never considered Fi for him.

Do you not think that he could be a caregiver? He's maybe probably definitely ethical imo.

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Grave of the fireflies had me balling like a baby. Legit ugly crying.

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Hm; I never considered Fi for him.

Do you not think that he could be a caregiver? He's maybe probably definitely ethical imo.

Definitely ethical. But Ej is a little too turbulent. He seemed introverted. Probably Ij > Ip. He does strike me as a caregiver, in the colloquial sense of the term, but ESI would be my tentative typing. EII as a close second. If he's a caregiver in socionics terms, then SLI would be plausible. But that reminds me more of Katniss Everdeen from THG. He's more calm and steady, at least on the surface. His sister struck me as the idealistic one that kept 'em going.

It's been so long since I've seen Grave of the Fireflies that it's hard to assign a definitive type to Seita. I'll re-watch it and give it another go, though.