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agreed, i feel like theres some sort of institutional incest at play here, like anime is now just so deeply buried by its own conventions it has lost its ability to connect with anyone but a peculiar breed of people who have similarly lost connection with the real world.

i couldnt shake a feeling of uncanniness when i was in japan, like it was less a nation and more a nation-scale giftshop. but maybe thats just the effect of being stuck in tourist areas coupled with illiteracy.
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Anime is not made for normal people. They are made for weebs. That's always the case in Japan. Some just happened to be popular outside weebs community but weebs are always the prime target audience.
 
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The period from the 1980s to 2000 marked the golden age of Japanese science fiction and fantasy works. Around 2010, Japanese animation entered its "moe-centric" golden era, shedding the grand narratives and boundless fantasies about the universe and future that defined the late 20th century. Yet, numerous outstanding works continued to emerge. The problem lies in the past decade. I can distinctly sense a decline in narrative quality within Japanese animation, as if even Japan's cultural industry has aged along with its population.
 
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"But the government has repeatedly made it clear that it wants more "accountability" from top Defence officials when it comes to delivering sophisticated military capabilities and platforms, with Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy flagging last week the government would make new announcements "shortly".

Well, imagine that.

1. Actually demanding accountability from Defence bureaucrats. What a novel concept - almost like Australia is taking a leaf from the CPC's playbook.

2. Canberra can demand accountability from the ADF, but they sure as hell won't be able to demand accountability from Washington DC.

AUKUS continues to be the biggest white elephant outside of Indian defence procurement, in my humble opinion.
 
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Quan8410 said:
Anime is not made for normal people. They are made for weebs. That's always the case in Japan. Some just happened to be popular outside weebs community but weebs are always the prime target audience.
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Yeah, I used to enjoy anime once but once you watch enough and have seen its general formula, you would have seen everything as one of the main issues with anime are is that the majority do not have anything that is really thought provoking about them and are literally just trying to fill out a tv tropes quota sheet. Also they seem to lower the bar as to how perverted they make the characters, how people celebrate this is beyond me. I struggle to find an anime now that can capture my interest for a lengthy period of time and the last show that did, (To be hero X) is in fact an animation made in China. Everything this year alone honestly sucked
 
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Imagine that, the CPC isn't banning anything, Chinese people themselves are turning away from Japanese travel and products of their own volition.

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In addition to this article saying that a lot of Chinese products nowadays are just as good and cheaper than Japanese ones, perhaps its just my algorithm but even before the current tensions a lot of young Chinese travelers always post about their disillusionment with Japan travel on social media. To sum up, the impressions they share is that even if Japan is overall still more wealthy and developed than China, its major cities are really not much different than Tier 1 Chinese cities nowadays. In most of those major cities too there's not much to do outside of eating and shopping. And Japanese food is losing its appeal amongst Chinese since its just raw fish, fried meat cutlets, even most ramen soups are essentially liquified pork or chicken fat with flavored soy sauce. (Thank you! That's all it literally is, its only because of marketing they charge Michelin prices for that shit) Kyoto and Nara have some nice looking temples, but once again its stuff you can find in China as well.

In short, the fascination with Japan always stemmed from its pop culture exports and being the wealthiest Asian nation, so poorer Asian nations looked up to them as an example for how to develop. Today though, take away the appeal of modernity especially as the rest of Asia catches up and Japan isn't all that different from China. I've always had these impressions of Japan tbh and if Chinese want to travel abroad for history they're for sure better off going to Russia, Central Asia, Iran, and Cambodia too if it wasn't for the current crime issues. I'd even throw in India if they can improve sanitation and public safety.
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Yeah, agree completely.

Chinese cities are the most advanced cities on earth. Full stop.

All we need to do is watch some Youtbue videos, and it is same content, that no one has seen replicated anywhere else, whether currently or in the past.

The curious thing is this kind of started during the Pandemic, where China closed it doors, so no one outside knew what was going on. Now it is wall to wall denial.

Those Chinese who think Japan is still ahead of China are fooling themselves.

Who are we going to believe? Old stereotypes or our lying eyes.
 
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