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If you're an older millennial or gen X without kids, you're out of touch with how big of a difference there is between the way we grew up and what's been going on for kids today. All the tropes that we learned were repackaged versions of classics— Aesop's fables, Brother's Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, The Greek and Roman myths, etc. Everything today is inversion and there's no cultural inertia carrying forward stories of heroes journeys or good, beautiful, and true. It is girlboss and endlessly iterative cartoons made to sell toys. A proper close can never happen, because that implies a beginning and end and limits marketing and refresh ability. Nothing can be permanent in a year zero society. This is where we are today in almost all Western media.

And then you get to anime. The girls are cute, the heroes are heroic, the quests are cool, and there's that feeling of familiarity repackaged in a different medium. There's no desire to make every character "queer" or otherwise flawed in some 21st century collapsed culture sort of way. They draw heavily from Eastern and Western classics, and they're not afraid to present traditionalism in a positive light. Joseph Campbell would appreciate their heroes journey, unlike what The West typically produces today. It's not all good quality, but there's so much of it produced that it's like a giant extremely rich mine. You still have the neverending stories of Shonen Jump, but they are generally enjoyable even if they give off a similar vibe to the Saturday morning cartoons of my childhood.

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