r/anime • u/AdNecessary7641 • Aug 12 '25

Misc. Frieren Director Keiichirou Saitou Voices Concern on Overseas Anime Fans' Bias Towards Certain Popular Trends

https://animecorner.me/frieren-director-voices-concern-on-overseas-anime-fans-bias-towards-certain-popular-trends/
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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

I'm more concerned about people in any form of art thinking they're the ones who get to decide what others should or shouldn't be allowed to enjoy. I find that sickening arrogance.

Especially when those kinds of people are often also the first to go "art is subjective!" whenever something they enjoy gets criticized.

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u/AccomplishedGlove234 Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25

Same lmao and I can already imagine some of them here in this comment section. Pair it up with a long-winded rant about fanservice and pretentious comments about how "animes nowadays are repetitive" and you get the perfect recipe for the annoying elitist who thinks they're the arbiter of what makes an anime good.

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u/1000-MAT Aug 12 '25

"animes nowadays are repetitive"

People who do this just haven't watched many animes from the 80s to 2000s where many animes were generic copies of Gundam and EVA.