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Somehow I doubt this person would be ok with someone kidnapping them from their home, chaining them up and forcing them to do hard manual labour from dawn till dusk.
Miyazaki said "Anime was a mistake" though he often talked about his perspective on these things, if someone draws inspiration from the world around them, from real place and experiences, they become a better artist, someone capable of creating truly new and inspiring things, if they only learn from existing art, not experiences, they aren't going to be capable of producing anything other than derivative slop that just exists to pander to the worst people.
This is why I like to say that if you want to build a compelling fictional setting, don't start with Brandon Sanderson. Start with Karl Marx.
Also, Clausewitz. The first section of the first book of On War alone ("WHAT IS WAR?") is incredibly illuminating.
This is true for so many things. Legend of Zelda is based on Miyamoto's experience exploring caves in the Japanese countryside, whereas every single forgettable LOZ clone is based on LOZ.
Yeah, I'm actually in the final stages of making a Zelda clone that incorporates my own idiosyncratic personal interests. The enemy is a colonial empire rather than an evil wizard and the final boss is a gargantuan steampunk tank that incorporates my interest in weird WWI/WWII era early tank designs and real-world anti-tank insurgent tactics (targeting treads, engine grilles, viewports).
Hell yeah.
I've had this idea for a zelda clone where the "trading sidequest" is to build a motorcycle. It's all very half baked but I think it follows in the spirit of making your game about things in the real world instead of about other games.
The only exception to this rule that comes to mind for me is Tunic, but that game seeks to capture the experience of figuring out how to play a game from instructions in another language, so even though it's kind of meta it works.
Thinking about it, it's kind of like how AI LLMs operate, taking and consuming original materials to regurgitate it into some sort of slop, that it then reconsumes and regurgitates once more, and so on and so forth, leading to increasingly inbred products that bear no resemblance to any original thought and only ponders to the worst people.
Anime is like AI slop. You heard it here folks
Of course, the best anime is counter-cultural in some level.
IDK Toriyama’s politics as much as I should, but he fucking hated real estate speculators which he inspired that asshole Freiza off of.
Half the fun of the Pokemon anime is pure escapism, even if it’s the highest grossing media franchise it still depicts a post-scarcity sci-fi world where nature and man coexist in some level.
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing depicts rebels fighting off Treize, an aristocrat from the empire with countless war crimes.
The episode of pokemon where the lead construction worker cancels the dam project bc it would kill the digletts is one of my favourite episodes of anime ever. In addition to post-scarcity ecological scifi, pokemon is a world where a construction worker can choose to veto a dam
Toriyama definitely doesnt seem to like real estate guys or militaries (and he loves nature), but lacks the theoretical basis to be more consistent or imagine a non-capitalist world, hence why Bulma is a billionaire's daughter. He reminds me sort of Tolkien in this way.