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I just want to point this out. Hopium can only go so far, the harsh reality is we're animals, and it's probably just gonna fucking end up like this.
Even Africa's birth rate is in decline afaik, but that's more applicable to the west. Japan, being an ethnostate, is straight up just kind of fucked. It's like trying to heat up an electric stove on a dying generator. Sure you might be able to get some heat, but it's really not gonna go anywhere.
This one guy talked about how FromSoftware likes to include themes of "stagnation vs flow" in their games, and I didn't really think about why until now. When you see the culture everyone in the studio is from, it becomes pretty obvious where the messages from shit like Dark Souls (a dying world clinging to the past) and Armored Core (corporate slavery) came from.
The real question, now, is how long will it take, and how do you think the japanese govt/citizenry will react?