Miyazaki has become a doomer nationalist radlib - Tomino has become a barely coherent lib - Oshii seems to be politically decent, but has been poisoned by the gamer mind virus (and Kazunori Ito, someone who he worked with closely in the late 80s to mid 90s, has been getting into twitter fights with chuds last time I checked... but probably isn't more than a socdem.)
The woes of modernity is that cool people have disappeared almost completely from public consciousness, or have become washed up in terms of politics - Japan is no exception.
I was going to bring this up if someone asked me to elaborate! It's really fascinating how the anime industry/subculture managed to perfectly capture that particular cultural shift in real-time.
I feel like growing old and financially successful rots one's brain in a weird way.
Material conditions and class interests my beloved.
Also .hack is pretty good. The soundtrack is fantastic. Patlabor EZY, which supposedly is gonna come out next year, is certainly gonna be interesting. He's in charge of the project, but I'm not aware if Oshii is also along for the ride.
The New Left -> Crank pipeline my beloved
Miyazaki has become a doomer nationalist radlib - Tomino has become a barely coherent lib - Oshii seems to be politically decent, but has been poisoned by the gamer mind virus (and Kazunori Ito, someone who he worked with closely in the late 80s to mid 90s, has been getting into twitter fights with chuds last time I checked... but probably isn't more than a socdem.)
The woes of modernity is that cool people have disappeared almost completely from public consciousness, or have become washed up in terms of politics - Japan is no exception.
I was going to bring this up if someone asked me to elaborate! It's really fascinating how the anime industry/subculture managed to perfectly capture that particular cultural shift in real-time.
I remember a Miyazaki interview where he said he could never make another Kiki's Delivery Service after seeing the bombing of Yugoslavia.
Yeah, the pacifism has stayed. He also doubled down on environmentalism and has an almost anti-industrial RETVRN to agrarianism worldview.
Nowadays he's pretty quiet on politics, but when he does speak on them, he's a staunch doomer.
I feel like growing old and financially successful rots one's brain in a weird way.
Lmao, I've been meaning to revisit .hack (the anime, definitely not the games at this point)
Material conditions and class interests my beloved.
Also .hack is pretty good. The soundtrack is fantastic. Patlabor EZY, which supposedly is gonna come out next year, is certainly gonna be interesting. He's in charge of the project, but I'm not aware if Oshii is also along for the ride.
Watch the Gundam SEED movie come out before it