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It's also just tropes all the way down. I'm misanthropic, but that's not because I truly hate people, I just hate what I've seen us become. At least I interact with people enough to be original though.
It doesn't try to derive meaning from real human experiences, only other anime, so at best it can become a copy, an imitation of other existing anime, and then those anime get copied and so on until you get anime that is just a series of disconnected cliches and tropes derivative of other anime without any substance.
This is the feeling I get when someone tells me they're studying Brandon Sanderson to be a better worldbuilder.
I couldn't have put it better myself, exactly this.
Even misanthropy becomes a pale, sickly thing in the absence of genuine human contact.
Misanthropy is already a hopelessly disgusting thing, I don't think it means much to make this distinction.