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>There is something deeply repulsive about japanese media that I find hard to articulate. A lot of western stuff might piss me off, or just elicit total indifference due to how garbage it can be,
>but even japanese media which I enjoy a great deal just bothers me in some way. There's a fakeness to a lot of it, any anime or game or film that is just totally ridiculous and honest about what it is I find enjoyable.
>But the shit that takes itself seriously just reeks of dishonesty and artifice, even down to how the voice acting and animation is done in a lot of cases. It can try to be twee,
>or sentimental, but theres a deep rooted lack of empathy that makes all the dialogue come across as canned,
>like a really shallow imitation of what a "wholesome" interaction should be from the point of view of a robotic narcissist who tacitly assumes anything positive or nice means a mutual agreement to be dishonest
>and coddle one another in a very regimented "etiquette" sort of way, that even when it tries to be spontaneous and impulsive, all the movements and sounds the characters make come across as forced and written
>by a sociopath playing with a dollhouse, creating his utopian reality where nobody really challenges one another. I guess a way to put it would be that even in the worst western media,
>a characters arc is usually about self honesty and their inner moral voice, the task of becoming a better person and learning. With a lot of japanese stuff its almost like they have no concept of that,
>and a good world is not one where individuals become good, but where everyone gets what they want so nobody has to be cruel to get what they want, and being a good friend is more being polite than pushing someone to be better.
>Its hard to explain what I mean. Its evident in the way they treat maturity and tragedy, almost always the brutality of the act is focused on to an excessive degree,