Why does Japan love the Sacrificial Hero protagonist, who either dies saving the world or saves the world and has absolutely nothing to show for it, so much? "Bittersweet" endings seem to be the default with very little sweetness to be seen. Don't they ever want to just see a happy ending?
Why does Japan love the Sacrificial Hero protagonist...
Elijah Lewis
Thomas Lee
The kamikaze become myth.
Caleb Carter
Beat me to it.
Aaron Watson
>kamikaze
That still doesn't explain jackshit. The question just becomes: Why does Japan love to kamikaze and senpuku so hard? And you're none the wiser. It's about a culture of honor and family shenanigans and what not, deeply routed in jap society/history. That should take you closer to the whole thing, and why they still can't stand up to their many crimes they committed the last century.
Ian Bell
yamato damashi
Matthew Richardson
Plenty of shonen have completely happy endings. Bleach, Naruto, Fairy Tail, etc.
Charles Myers
They are heroes because they couldn't give a ratass over a reward or a girl's kiss. That's what heroes do.
They do not wear a cape, put on a moronic colorful attire and douse themselves on the limelight preaching how holier they are. That's hypocrisy and Superman and Captain America are more symbols of egocentric Americans than actual heroes
Robert Bell
>Sacrificial Hero protagonist
AHEM
Eli Rodriguez
>hero
Jason Anderson
>That still doesn't explain jackshit
Yes it does. It's a collectivist society, all about sacrificing the individual in the name of the greater good.
Cameron Smith
Thing about Altruism is that it's asthetic regards as cool 'heroic' self sacrifice. Japan has not recognized the evil of sacrifice and it is to the extent they aren't an egoist nation.
Daniel Ward
Who doesn't? It is a trope as old as the world.
Joshua Kelly
>gave humanity the gift of fire
>punished by Zeus for a eternity
Greek mythology is all about Zeus's fetishes instead of thanking Prometheus for giving them the gift that the gods refuse to give
Luke Jackson
It has nothing to do with that, dude
It's about glorifying a person's courage in face of death
Charles Allen
Same as knights and Christian martyrs. A noble death was always cool.
Colton Ramirez
The 12 Stages of The Hero's Journey is a common framework for story telling.
William Young
All japs are indoctrinated from birth to give their lives in kamikaze attacks for glorious Nippon, this bleeds into their pop culture
Henry Thomas
At least he got rescued by Heracles. His name never continued though
Daniel Bailey
>"Bittersweet" endings seem to be the default with very little sweetness to be seen
Since fucking when?
Parker Gomez
Don't point fingers when we all know how much more degeneracy there are in the western society
Adam Roberts
And that's part of the reason why they're so goddamn terrible
Benjamin Brown
You said it yourself. It's old as the Samuray era thingy and probably older. Yakuzas chop their fingers, women cut of their hair in public, students kill themselves for failing a uni admission test, a father that can't provide anymore throws himself to the railway. The FUCKING Suicide Forest.
They are heavy on pennance and self punishment and humilliation. In this last point not on any kind of children show you can see references to S&M except on chinese cartoons.
Honuraburu deatho and all that.
Nippon Banzai!
David Flores
That's a really homosexual looking outfit
Logan Barnes
Because bittersweet endings are ingrained in Japanese culture.
Their entire history has been a bittersweet endings.
Jackson Cruz
What anime is this?
Logan Walker
Better question is how it spiral king *not* a bad guy?
Jacob Gonzalez
In real life there are no happy endings.
Owen Butler
It's just how they are.
Ethan Hernandez
Saint Young Men
Colton Bailey
Camden Gray
How many ordinary, everyday heroes does Japan have in its history? What legends do commoners have to look up or aspire to?
Samuel Richardson
>Proceeded to defeat the very concept of Death itself, may have led a massive jailbreak from Satan (depending on how you read it) in the process, demonstrated both his triumph over the grave and his divinity before a number of his followers, and ascended directly into heaven to rule with his father over all of creation, with the promise that he would come back at the End of Days and judge everyone
Yeah, that's exactly the same fate as a kamikaze pilot, or a commoner or retainer who is betrayed/bullied/treated horribly by his "betters".
Evan Powell
He didn't steal the fire for the good of man. He stole it to spite the gods. Prometheus was no hero