It’s also just tropes all the way down. I’m misanthropic, but that’s not because I truly hate people, I just hate what I’ve seen us become. At least I interact with people enough to be original though.
It doesn’t try to derive meaning from real human experiences, only other anime, so at best it can become a copy, an imitation of other existing anime, and then those anime get copied and so on until you get anime that is just a series of disconnected cliches and tropes derivative of other anime without any substance.
You’re probably talking about a famous/infamous interview from Hayao Miyazaki, which includes him saying:
“It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans” is the best encapsulation of the issue, imo
It’s also just tropes all the way down. I’m misanthropic, but that’s not because I truly hate people, I just hate what I’ve seen us become. At least I interact with people enough to be original though.
Even misanthropy becomes a pale, sickly thing in the absence of genuine human contact.
Misanthropy is already a hopelessly disgusting thing, I don’t think it means much to make this distinction.
It doesn’t try to derive meaning from real human experiences, only other anime, so at best it can become a copy, an imitation of other existing anime, and then those anime get copied and so on until you get anime that is just a series of disconnected cliches and tropes derivative of other anime without any substance.
I couldn’t have put it better myself, exactly this.
This is the feeling I get when someone tells me they’re studying Brandon Sanderson to be a better worldbuilder.