Marxist analysis of the isekai anime genre and why it is so common nowadays? - eviltoast

It’s like capitalism has gotten so bad in Asia that it’s profitable to make shows about depressed salarymen/hikkikomori dying and reincarnating in a happy fun exciting world where they are a badass super god/goddess that gets all the women easily.

  • commiespammer@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    They often have a poor understanding of boundaries or what might make other people uncomfortable. They’re usually not terrible people or anything, just lonely guys who struggle with human connection and have found a quick and dirty “diet” version in the form of parasocial relationships with their favourite anime character.

    You just spent a whole half a paragraph describing me 😭