You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, “Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life.” If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it.
Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!
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To take things even further I think that the objectification, flanderization, comodification and "othering "of female characters in anime has resulted in it almost exclusively catering incels and otaku that see women (and disturbingly, underage girls) as dolls to fetishise.
Which is frustrating because there is good anime out there that isn't like this, but I can't really say I'm an anime fan without people thinking I'm into moe crap or otakus gatekeeping me because I don't like their moe crap.
I just wanna talk about how cool Full Metal Alchemist is...
Based Chaddao Chaddazaki strikes again, great fucking analysis.
Although he's 100% right imo he's too bitter bloomer about it, attributing the cause of this phenomenon mostly to an "otakufication" of the anime industry. However the materialist view of shit would basically be to recognize the cope status of modern anime for a subsector of the population, ie. alienated young men, be they office workers or NEETs. Its a market-based solution which offers a synthetic simulacrum of a simulacrum of social interaction, friendship, community, romance, sexual fulfillment, agency, and belonging for citizens of an imperial core nation at the very end of the neoliberal capitalist development model, where lonliness, social angst, and mental anguish is rife due to a complete atomization and breakdown of any higher social structures or values beyond individualism. In practice this means that everyone is fucking alienated, overworked, lonely as all hell, and barely hanging on in the face of rising living costs, inadequate healthcare, time poverty, market bureaucracy, and other factors spurred on by full neoliberal dominion via a right wing government.
In these conditions, of course the band-aid for the bullet wound that the market will provide is modern anime, produced by individualist cucks who rose to the top, "spending their lives only interested themselves", unable to stand "looking at other humans", especially women, who are seen as the inferior binary gender by the Japanese conservative paradigm. It is thus no surprise that the cope they often produce is a shitty malformed smorgasbord of misogynist objectification fully detached from any sense of reality, a spiritual poison that temporarily fills the void inside yet corrodes into the sides of the pit to leave the void larger than before during evaporation.
Great point, also love the term time poverty when you realize how very little free time people in modern society have even just working a basic 9/5 job with weekends off.
Yeah its dystopian once it hits, another big reason why people in neoliberal economies near the "end stage" of the proposed "development" tree have less children, leading to aging populations. In essence, neoliberal capitalism slowly wipes out humanity even in its "best case" scenarios (which of course come courtesy of harsher physical exploitation and resource pillaging elsewhere).
100% this. The development of the Hikikomori and related subcultures in Japan are entirely understandable given the context of its economic base and subsequent societal relations. The production of these types of media is a reflection of the society in which they're created, and attributing it to a nebulous phenomenon like 'otakufication' really only obfuscates the real cause, which is, of course neoliberal capitalism.
You said it much better then I could comrade :rat-salute:
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