The current japanese economic dystopia is so disappointing. What happened to the 80's? The glorious dystopian visions, the likes of Dominion or Akira? All mangaka can come up with is "I woke up and I wasn't here".
Like, grow a pair and try something bold. Drop some asteroids, flood Sagami Bay like YKK, have youkai blow up some reactors like Arjuna... just do SOMETHING besides more frigging isekai.
I mean, every medium has its generic genre designed to sell to without rocking the boat too much, with the subverting that being the only ones anyone remembers. Shield Hero will probably be the only isekai people remember in the next decade for being the opposite of escapist fantasy (at first).
The same way everyone remembers Evangelion, but not forgotten mecha like Rahxephon or Eureka Seven.
Also, weird that you chose two mecha anime that people forgot that also happen to reference Maurice Maeterlinck (full disclosure, I have not actually watched RahXephon).
I dropped both of them because RahXephon felt so generic, and the MC of Eureka Seven (Renton Thurston, a name so over the top I never forgot it) was so unlikable I couldn't physically stand him.
And honestly they were the first that came to mind that weren't Gundam so that was coincidental, though interesting. Well those two and Vandread.
What talent? It's isekai.
The current japanese economic dystopia is so disappointing. What happened to the 80's? The glorious dystopian visions, the likes of Dominion or Akira? All mangaka can come up with is "I woke up and I wasn't here".
Like, grow a pair and try something bold. Drop some asteroids, flood Sagami Bay like YKK, have youkai blow up some reactors like Arjuna... just do SOMETHING besides more frigging isekai.
I mean, every medium has its generic genre designed to sell to without rocking the boat too much, with the subverting that being the only ones anyone remembers. Shield Hero will probably be the only isekai people remember in the next decade for being the opposite of escapist fantasy (at first).
The same way everyone remembers Evangelion, but not forgotten mecha like Rahxephon or Eureka Seven.
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Also, weird that you chose two mecha anime that people forgot that also happen to reference Maurice Maeterlinck (full disclosure, I have not actually watched RahXephon).
I dropped both of them because RahXephon felt so generic, and the MC of Eureka Seven (Renton Thurston, a name so over the top I never forgot it) was so unlikable I couldn't physically stand him.
And honestly they were the first that came to mind that weren't Gundam so that was coincidental, though interesting. Well those two and Vandread.