Anno understands the Japanese national attraction to characters like Rei as the product of a stunted imaginative landscape born of Japan’s defeat in the Second World War. “Japan lost the war to the Americans,” he explains, seeming interested in his own words for the first time during our interview. “Since that time, the education we received is not one that creates adults. Even for us, people in their 40s, and for the generation older than me, in their 50s and 60s, there’s no reasonable model of what an adult should be like.” The theory that Japan’s defeat stripped the country of its independence and led to the creation of a nation of permanent children, weaklings forced to live under the protection of the American Big Daddy, is widely shared by artists and intellectuals in Japan. It is also a staple of popular cartoons, many of which feature a well-meaning government that turns out to be a facade concealing sinister and more powerful forces.
Anno pauses for a moment, and gives a dark-browed stare out the window. “I don’t see any adults here in Japan,” he says, with a shrug. “The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldn’t have seen 30 years ago, with people who grew up under a different system of government. They would have been far too embarrassed to open a book of cartoons or dirty pictures on a train. But that’s what we have now in Japan. We are a country of children.”
Unironically true, but what the fuck happened? Why did infantization spread so fast and on such a scale?
Colton Brown
holy based
Josiah Hughes
Yet, he created some of the most vile cringe manchildren cartoons ever.
What did he mean by this?
Xavier Bennett
>he explains, seeming interested in his own words for the first time during our interview lol
David Russell
Oh that's simple he's a soulless automaton like therest of bugmen (asians)
Logan Wright
retribution for unpunished war crimes i assume
Ryder Lewis
It is simple. Society has become too convenient.
Convenience is the greatest virtue of civilisation.
For thousands of years, a man was expected to hunt, fight and provide for his family as soon as he became of age. To fail to do so would provide with it disastrous consequences for himself and his family.
Now? Everyone is so convenient, the first world is one big safety bubble, and now men don’t need to grow up and face the cruelty of this world, they can simply remain in their parents home and watch anime and play video games.
Well... just like all bubbles, it’s only a matter of time until it pops.
Nathaniel Diaz
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan There are a bunch of factors, including their economic stagnation (Lost Decades) and the reciprocal Japonisme since Perry forced them into western trade. You should read up on this shit. It's actually pretty important. Don't be such a pseud. He's just a pedophile (see picrel).
This does explain the message of Shin Goji no matter how many times they tried to hide or dismiss it.
Asher Rogers
>visits a kindergarten for 15 minutes everyday before going to work he's gonna get outed out like Jimmy Saville when he dies
Jordan Russell
America is suffering the same fate. Men are a dying breed, only boys in adult bodies. Lots of "adult men" look like fifteen year olds. Adult males would rather jerk off to pornography, binge shitty television shows, doomscroll and bitch on social media and play video games than do anything productive in their free time. Comfort has bred weakness. The pursuit of the female is dead. Nobody wants to have families. People are dropping out of society. Settling for mediocrity. Blaming all issues on the opposite sex or boomers instead of taking some accountability. Everything is fucked.
What is wrong with you? How can one be so triggered by some anime?
David Baker
Miyazaki says it in the documentary about ghibli The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, which is a very good documentary btw you should watch it. I thought this thread was about him but it's actualy about hideaki anno, don't know why OP used a miyazaki picture tho
Cameron Clark
>you are supposed to feel shame and guilt doing what you like >how dare you like cartoons (even though I dedicated my whole life to making them) >TIME TO GROW UP, I'M VERY ADULT MAKING SWEEPING GENERALIZATIONS OF PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW
anno is a pseud, but since japan is entirely a culture of worshiping your superiors he dug his head deep up his own ass.
This sounds great. I would love to live in manchild land providing the infrastructure is still good, which it very much is in Japan. Acting like an "adult" under most circumstances just means being a joyless duty bound husk.
Luis Lopez
I am not triggered just stating facts. He complains about manchildren-media yet he is the creator of one of the worst kind of manchildren movies.
Wyatt Thomas
He's talking about the proliferation of children's media being consumed by non-child markets. Anno is an otaku - he made shit for otaku (creepy autistic fans and nerds). He's upset that his hobby and his passion was coopted by the mainstream. >I liked it first, before it was cool! Now it's not.
Gabriel Scott
he won't get outed. Japanese don't do like that.
Jayden Davis
If I lived there and had a normal desk job then given their obsession with unhealthy work ethic (are they even trying to change it? Heard some companies are introducing 4 day work week) I'd also enjoy some escapism and they have whole districts dedicated to that with something for everyone.
