I'd say that there was never much to him, but over the past few years he has actively stripped away those minor parts of himself that were more substantial (self awareness, genuine love of art, meaningful relationships that are not about drugs, desire to have a family, etc.). This seemed to mostly happen after Amanda broke up with him. It's like she gave his soul a terminal illness.
Call me what you will, but he's not wrong.
The documentary also covers your point about Digi's obsession with moé, rather than typical Shonen fodder like Dragon Ball Z: with him "often felt threatened by masculinity at odds with their own sense of manhood and found solace in these types of shows [moé], bereft of the Y-chromosome". (4:44)
To be fair, even though the mid section had one rant that had me skipping forward, this is exactly as I remember Digi. The guy who made this just plucked my mind; aside from calling Conrad "they" and "she". But that's YT for ya.
How much of this disinterest in shonen in favor of moe because muh femininity do you suppose isn’t actually him retconning his own life to somehow prove he’s been trans all along?
I think it's a sincere description of his media tastes.
He's always been into anime with little girls in the prominent roles because he's a paedophile.
Sword Art Online is about a brave and powerful warrior who saves the world, his friends and is a married man with a wife and a child who love him.
Nah, the series is actually bad. Plotarmor, bad writing, boring exposition. That and the spurned women's club, aka 'I got a main ho but lemme drag all deez side bitches along just to cuck them".
I remember liking the start of the show where Kirito was still in his loner phase a lot, but you are right about him being overpowered and it making the writing suffer. But yeah, everything else is after the surprise boss fight on the upper floor sucks ass, and season two didn't help despite having a great setting reset. Digi's largely right about the series, but I do remember the first half of it being a bit of a guilty pleasure. I've heard that the latest seasons are a lot better, but I'm not willing to make that plunge into cringe territory unless I get nostalgic about the series again for some reason.
Fully agree, I was having a good time until this point.
I didn't say the characters were well written. But that's the kind of character Kirito is supposed to be.
Are there really people who are intimidated by cartoons because they show someone struggling? That just sounds impossible to me, that someone would look at what's basically a cartoon or even a movie and find it unsettling because it has a story of conquest and adventure.
I think in his Old-ass Anime Cast on Moe he talks about how he refused to watch anything girly for a long time (because it reminded him of getting called a girl) then became obsessed with cute girls shows immediately once he gave in and tried one.
I'd argue that TV series or films don't really match up to novels in the detailed story they tell, but there are many heroic epics or even folk tales that are about a hero struggling against something, be it the gods, society, nature and/or himself.
He used to say that he made videos for his "unfulfilled desire to be understood". As if he's so unique no one can understand his true self, like with the "Digibro is a character" defense. Probably almost everyone has known a guy like Digi and he hasn't changed at all other than that hes now wearing lipstick and a dress.
