there is nothing inherently wrong with movies about superheroes, either. we're talking about broad cultural trends.
yuasa is from the culture, but not of it. that's the only type of person who can push a culture in a different direction.
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as i said, you can't force someone to have vigor, will, or vision. i don't know what the anime journalism industry looks like in japan, but maybe if there were prominent critics with taste, they could tell him that he has a responsibility to mankind.
i don't think anything from youtube is going to eat into the HBO/amazon/netflix/television market share any time soon.
mine -- for engaging with anime in the way actual japanese otaku do instead of engaging with anime as a Western tourist does.
if the industry didn't empower them to some extent, these works we've discussed wouldn't exist at all.
how does the anime industry empower auteurs more than the film industry? we can compare japan to japan to avoid confounding factors.
