Japan takes everything way too seriously. What they lack understandance of is subtlety of context. This story is about a robot boy with guns in his butt. Rather than play it like a parody or comedy? They played it straight, that's the only form of story telling Japs can do, they lack that human element of "just laugh, ffs, it's not that damn serious". Even the brits understand what that is like.
Maybe its because Japanese people don't live in a world where crime in around the corner every sec they fail to understand what real serious situations are really like. Basically, Japanese make up headcanons of what real life is actually like when humans have to take something seriously, and to the western world, it comes off like a joke, satire, "meme humor".
This is actually what makes anime so great. Japan understands subtlety of context just fine. It's the determination to explore the "ideals" projecting them as if they were reality that is something unique to Japanese culture. The "Lol it was all a joke" is soemthing quote disheartening if you're gonna put so much work into fiction you might as well put passion and genuine enthusiasm into in it. That's how people get hooked on anime and manga, because the author has enugh boldness to embrace his narration to as much depth as he wants to
>just laugh, ffs, it's not that damn serious it is not a joke in context of the presented world, how far one gotta fall to defend and yearn for meta irony. Also jesus fucking christ you're delusional about how nip society or history looks like, that small overpopulated pacific shithole ain't some garden of eden just because they wash themselves.
Tyler Hall
I know this is bait but holy shit The greatest of virtues of Japanese media is that they can tell a story about a kid with guns in his butt and not spend the whole time being embarrassed about it and filling everything with quips
Yes it does. There's tons of meta jokes in anime and manga and all of them are quippy as hell. Many protagonists and up being ones to point out cliches and tired out tropes but it doesn't make them look more sincere or funny.
Jace King
they aint jews, so they don't feel the need to subvert everything
Tyler Hernandez
Nobody can take stories with out there concepts seriously.
Austin Scott
Based
Jackson Jenkins
Tv tourist
Adam Perez
Detachment and irony poisoning has destroyed an entire generations mind. They cannot comprehend sincere expression. I don't mean that in a condescending way, they simply do not have any reference point within their worldview by which to understand it. Nowhere can this be observed more clearly than in the modern ironic "anime fan".
Adam Harris
I can
Landon Phillips
OP takes the Japanese too seriously.
Kevin Smith
Don't underestimate Japan. It's a society that at the end of the day remains a mysterious enigma even to the most advanced Japanophiles. Only by trusting your inner intuotion and painstakingly looking at every detail of any Japan-related concept that exists in this world can a person ever if slightly approach resonance with the 和 (WA) of Japan Of course, this requires embracing sincerity. And rejecting "le ironic weeb" lifestyle that only shallowens people
