This is about about anime...

This is about about anime, but it raises an interesting point - are cartoons and comics producing an infantile generation of men? Several years ago we had Bill Maher effectively echoing Anno's points about what capeshit is doing to American millennials, which ruffled more than few feathers.

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>but it raises an interesting point
No it's not. Anno's a hypocrite for saying that but then milking the shit out of Eva merch.

>infantile generation of men
Not just men, 75% of the shit that makes it to air and that Any Forums talks/complains about was made for 20-30 year old women on twitter.

It's not a good point, adult men have been reading comics since the get-go. In war and peace. The shame may be a Japanese thing. We don't give a fuck.

>are cartoons and comics producing an infantile generation of men?

Yes, but they're not 100% to blame

Is Any Forums - comics and cartoons producing a new generation of faggots? The existence of OP is strong evidence.

Anno himself was and remains one of those people he's describing. His problem seems to be that it's popular and normal to do it now, when back in his day it was niche and only extreme losers like he and Shinji quietly did it while locked away in their smelly basements. Now everyone's doing it out in the open.

I'd argue videogames are more to blame than superhero movies or anime

I will admit I'm a bit biased, because if I see someone reading an Adventure Time comic I'll think, "Sure, whatever". But if I see the same grown-man reading a Steven Universe comic, I might conjure up an image about them. The type of person who browses Tumblr and has 50 flags in their Twitter bio.

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What is the problem? What exactly is it they're doing that's so infantile? I'm not seeing any examples aside from enjoying things in public he personally feels they should be ashamed of.

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Anno is saying that manga is for kids and porn should be read privately like back in his days and can't come with grasps with the idea of people not following this norm anymore
It's whatever because people in Japan don't care what you do on your off time on a train, everyone is focused before work and relaxed after work

>You're old now, so stop enjoying that thing you like, or at least try to hide it!

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No, it's that people are starting to grow out of the stereotype that animation and cartoons have to be exclusively for kids. Even a 60 year old animator like him still has that stigma and can't shake it off because it was drilled into his head, while the norms for that are changing as older media is becoming more accessible and newer shows are going for a more mature audience.

The world has been on fire for the last couple of years (maybe more), I don't blame anyone for indulging in their escapist hobbies.

There's a great nobility in adults taking care of business, but shit gets exhausting. All work and no play, you know the rest.

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idk I think anno hates seeing himself in the average person. More to the point, no I don't see comics and or cartoons producing an infantile generation of men. Comfortability maybe. I think there are people too comfortable in their lives and they get complacent.

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I don't know where you're from, but whipping out a genuine porno mag in a bus or a train is plain bad taste.

In ancient times men would play tag and hide and seek with children, they would go to meeting places and play games and sing.

Even at the turn of the 19th century gentlemen, the height of their society would play with wooden soldiers and have play rooms.

Modern society is wrong. Humans are meant to be hairy dorks that frolic and laugh. Today industry and a pathetic understanding of ourselves has beaten us to think we are these bug creatures that think it's okay to put away anything that makes us happy because someone who is trapped in this system worse than us says we should.

The guy made Evangelion, he has no idea what humans are like.

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Get back to me when it's illegal.

lmao fucking japs
>you will turn on the sink so no one can hear you in the bathroom
>you will continue to do things you don't like because you are afraid to speak up
>you will go drink with your boss because saying no is is dishonourable
>you will continue to be ashamed of everything

This. The fucking gall of Anno to say shit like this and then make millions off of sexy statues of Asuka and Rei.

>old man animates immature garbage and thinks all animation is immature garbage as a result

I think it's pop culture in general. Look at how many people thrink in black and white terms and have to compare everything in the world, no matter how serious, to the MCU or Star Wars or Harry Potter.

Except, according to Anno, they won't.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with liking it, but when it’s the majority of your intake of the arts that’s probably indicative of something.

>Finnfag
Lol

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The fact that he puts viewing cartoons in public and viewing porn in public in the same category proves that japs have a huge problem both with the pervasiveness of shame in their cultural norms and with the proliferation of perverts.

They do have the porn vending machines that they've had since the 80's

I'd bet that just like with a lot of Tomino's "shocking" quotes, it's something taken largely out of context or has otherwise had its intended meaning twisted. The dude fucking LOVES Space Battleship Yamato and it's the reason he became an animator, after all. He's an otaku but like you said, he's essentially saying that where his interests were once something stigmatized, it's instead become commodified and mainstream in a way he probably never could've expected.