https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas

Utopia requiring the perpetual suffering of a child.

Actually pretty fucked up they didn't credit her, it's almost the same story

      • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        It's just fucking irrelevant to my main point lol. Ursula K La Guin was a famous sci Fi author whose story showed up beat for beat on a show I just watched and thought it was neat.

        It was almost certainly not the responsibility of anime.

        But yes, the origins of the genre go back further than what I said. My bad