>>2092704>came across as pretentiousIt didn't, and regardless, it doesn't have to. You can use it for whatever you want, and yet, what you chose was discomfort.
It sounds more like you have the problem. Same goes for people who arrive at this opinion for Ergo Proxy, Lain, Evangelion, Jin-Roh, Perfect Blue, Angel's Egg, whatever. Your fixation on this source of personal unrest, and bother, only highlights something in yourself.
It doesn't even enter my mind if something is pretentious unless it has a hard, real world, factual basis. At such a pint it's heavily coupled with being disingenuous and manipulative, which is why it's a sensation that's worth having.
