Maoyuu Maou Yuusha

[Dark Dragon]

You're reaching a little bit too hard, i'm not advocating anything.

You should reread your argument again since you're contradicting yourself. You're saying that the show is advocating stability and predictability over freedom, but also complain that the queen and maids are showing "white man superiority" by imposing their superiority.

The thing they're doing to "impose" their superiority is to convince the village to take up this new method of farming, which is completely foreign to the villagers. They're trying to convince the villagers to give up predictability and stability for a chance at a better life and more freedom. They're doing precisely the opposite of what you're suggesting the show is advocating, but then you're also suggesting what they're doing is wrong.

First of all, the children are girls. I think you would've notice that if you bother just watching the show instead of spending so much time being indignant of the "message" that you think an anime is trying to advocate.

You also completely missed the point of the scene involving the maid and children. She is admonishing them because their course of action essentially relies on the kindness of strangers. Their course of action was simple and without any forethought to what might be ahead. At no point during the conversation did she admonish them for running away, only their plan for what to do after escaping.

They have no belonging, no plan, and no skills. This isn't just "uncertain" future, because they're certainly guaranteed to end up as beggars unless some miracle happens. You can throw the world freedom around as much as you want, but beggars in the medieval period realistically have little more freedom than slaves.

Your earlier post also said that there's merits in pragmatism and it isn't necessarily inferior to abstract ideas like freedom. The maid presented the children with two choices. The head maid obviously thought she's presenting them a choice between a life where they give up immediate freedom for greater potential in the future or a path for an immediate false sense of freedom, but realistically give the children very little choices.

We can look at it from the older sister point of view and forgo any knowledge of these people except that 1) They were willing to help serfs (this is an era where serfs and slaves are treated little better than animals) 2) They seem to be fairly wealthy 3) The maid seem to have strict conducts for behavior. She is then given the choice of enter their employment (It must be noted that in this society, servants are considered to be above serfs) and give up her new-found freedom, which consist of leaving their home, cold, wet and hungry and not a particularly bright future to look forward to. It can then be argue that she made the practical choice by ensuring that the two of them will have shelter, food and clothing while giving up an abstract idea like freedom.