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This is ANIME, and this is the core driver of all the miyazaki films and other animes you like. To us, it's a nice romp through imagination land and it reminds us of different perspectives, but to the Japanese it is a life sustaining COPE that they must have or they will go insane. Every rock and tree has a spirit, there are gods of the forest walking through them, one day princess monoke will come out of the forest and they will fall in love, "omg can't you feel the spirit of wonder and life brimming in the river fairies today tee-hee" etc etc etc. The core spirit of their media/culture is COPE from the horrors of being cucked, having their women whored out for cans of soup while fat Americans wore their shoes indoors all over the homes of the former Japanese elites. 3) Working in Japan fucking sucks. I am serious. I worked in Roppongi for 10 weeks and it was MISERABLE. The commute is insane, it's like a river of identical japanese salary men, seriously it's like a river of people flowing through the subway, and the subway. Say what you want about cushy tech jobs where no one gets anything done and they just play mario kart all day, but in Japan you have ZERO fun at work and ALSO get nothing done. It's the most ridiculous, stifling culture you can imagine, with super strict hierarchies that are borderline archaic and everyone spends their times trying to use the proper honorifics and not doing any actual work. If a lower tier person knows how to do something, they can't just say it, they have to wait until they can schedule a private meeting with the boss and tell him, to not have him "loose face". I mean yeah, you shouldn't cut out legs in front of other people especially if they are your superiors, but this is like beyond ridiculous. You cannot say ANYTHING that contradicts a superior in even the SLIGHTEST way, like even asking a question can be viewed as that. Can you imagine how fucking slow everything moves in this kind of work environment?
