prollyanotherlurker
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I just think anime is gay and bad.I've always thought that Japan leaves too much to the imagination. They write retarded poems like "little pool in spring / the frog contemplates his life / watching ripples spread" and you're supposed to pretend it's loaded with symbolism and meaning like ah yes this relates to the human condition, it speaks to me. Their most well known contribution to written word forms and it's devoted to saying as little as possible while saying a lot, i.e. leaving it to the imagination.
The Japanese language is blunt and straightforward, inelegant with too few adjectives and synonyms to precisely convey a complex idea. But culturally they're repressed and can never say what they're thinking. So you end up in the situation where one simple phrase can mean 50 things depending on context, and only someone fluent in both the language and the culture can intuit the meaning. If you've ever looked at anime or game localization, characters say the same phrases constantly, and localization has to determine what was actually meant (or just break up all the repetition). "I'm sorry" might end up as "I apologize," or "please forgive me," or even "oops."
They also often refuse to do proper worldbuilding, and events happen just because they need to happen for the sake of the plot. They're more concerned with getting to emotional pathos than arriving at that point through a logical progression of events. Play any RPG - magic does whatever it needs to in any given moment. The villain is like "if I do this, I'll become a god!" Why? How? How do you actually know this? You'll become actual god, or a weird Shinto understanding of minor deities who can still easily die? (Always the latter, because the party kills them.) Japanese stories are consistently frustrating.
I would bet money George R.R. Marten is into gooning to some fucked up shit.The Game of Thrones has all of that but is heralded (before the last season) as one of the greatest shows put to television. It really does come off as a bias against a piece of media because it comes from a country you don't like.