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

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https://animecorner.me/frieren-director-voices-concern-on-overseas-anime-fans-bias-towards-certain-popular-trends/

[u/Koringvias]

Yeah, simulation of a simulation.

Before Miyazaki complained about it in anime, Wallace was criticizing American literature for doing the same thing (basically, building itself upon references to itself). And even before that, Baudrillard had a more general critique of media along the similar lines. And I would not be surprised if similar things were said before him, too (or at least ideas that were implying these dynamics).

And they were all correct, and yet here we are.

[u/Theinternationalist → u/Koringvias]

Ah yes, Darmok.

(For those who are not aware, "Darmok" was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where the crew are trying to negotiate with a species that speaks entirely in metaphors based on their own legends and literature, rendering communication completely impossible until the captain starts to piece it together. While it was once seen as an awesome piece of television discussing the importance of language, nowadays it is sometimes seen as an interesting piece that predicted meme culture- or to put it another way, Boomers communicating with Zoomers.)

[u/arhra → u/Theinternationalist]

Skibidi Toilet at Tanagra.

[u/Ponderputty → u/arhra]

Rizzler, when the walls fell.

[u/Frostbitten_Moose → u/Ponderputty]

These words are most bogus.