>>38004792Postwar Japan is built on the idea that your live peaks in high school and it's a downhill slope after that. It's a fusion of their ancient tradition of sons succeeding fathers and the modern reality of capitalistic wage slavery. You are expected to find solace in understanding this sad state, and escapism (be it anime, drugs, or sex) is ostracized.
Burgers don't believe in this, and that's why we call them burgers. They consume all their lives and exploit others and their children until they expire. Boomers, Millennials, and Zoomers are all cut from the same filthy cloth.
If Shudo had detailled this ending in the '90s, it would have been beloved. Not surprised modern weeb and otaku cucks are repulsed by it.
