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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gornostay" data-source="post: 17197" data-attributes="member: 344">I'm not going to go imposing rules on anybody who has something that's working for them. Or even really people who things aren't working for. Lifers love rules, not logic. There's nothing axiomatically wrong with a lot of things people think must be the source of our woes. There are some very nice extensions out there.Devilman: Crybaby seems to break every warehouseman ellipsesfaggot "Japan is FINISHED" sighnigger rule of decline almost wilfully, and it's amazing. After decades of Devilman media it's somehow the first complete adaptation of the original story, and it's also an update which moves the setting to the 21st century and incorporates iconic key elements of successor works into the original story. You can watch it as a serious Devilman fan and know that these people get it and are paying homage to everything Devilman has become since the start, and you can watch it with no familiarity and it works perfectly as a self contained work. Its style feels extremely new, no normalfaggot will be put off by it being "old", but the bones of the story are the same and timeless. [MEDIA=youtube]XRmzkAT3bLI[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]8J6MwUpSU3M[/MEDIA]I don't know what you mean about insecurity. I wasn't suggesting that."Confidence" isn't the word. I think there's a kind of nerd who just kind of has these spasms of brilliance if given a kind of life tenure as an artist. "Drive" might be a more appropriate term for what you would want. But then, I do believe that a lackadaisical nature is a factor in the genesis of certain works. Again, we can't really speculate here. These works are products of what they're products of. We can't really meaningfully talk about what they'd be if a completely different mind produced them. That's not possible. You can say that the mind that produced them should be whipped and given deadlines and more editorial pressure. And maybe you'd be right in certain cases.Japan may be the reason your penis is still attached to your body.Yes, I think television can offer very interesting and good experiences as television. It's a shame the halfway interesting or worthwhile ones are such exceptions at the moment. And it seems more likely tv dies than improves with the current state of things. And the internet will take up the mantle of tv in the worst senses possible.I also don't watch seasonal anime, or anything that's a really big time investment. This is very understandable. I think keeping up with television is suited to a kind of relaxed, rhythmic, comfortable engagement with life. Which is probably a large source of why Japan can keep up a relatively healthy tv culture, and also make things like 200 hour JRPGs.  NEETs on one hand, and people comfortably locked into day to day life on the other. I'm a NEET, but I don't really feel comfortable just day in checking the up with a cycle of stuff. I go for more particular and complete things too. That's not a failing on the part of the things that fall outside of that broad category.That's sort of how I am. I'll take any individual interesting looking thing as it comes to me. I won't engage with anime because it's anime, or go to "the movies" just because I like "movies". Last thing I saw at a kinoplex was 'Eyes Wide Shut'.People I consider serious and in possession of excellent taste have told me that there are Indian films of real interest. Not many, but something at least.What I see as the particular strengths of anime are something I could really go into at length in another post, as requested byNot right now. But I'll get to that at some point.</blockquote>

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