"Japan lost the war to the Americans. Since that time, the education we received is not one that creates adults...

>"Japan lost the war to the Americans. Since that time, the education we received is not one that creates adults. Even for us, people in their 40s, and for the generation older than me, in their 50s and 60s, there’s no reasonable model of what an adult should be like. I don’t see any adults here in Japan. The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldn’t have seen 30 years ago, with people who grew up under a different system of government. They would have been far too embarrassed to open a book of cartoons or dirty pictures on a train. But that’s what we have now in Japan. We are a country of children." - Hideaki Anno

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based americans

It all makes sense now, all of Anno's criticisms of otaku are nothing but self-hatred and projection.

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>being an adult means being constantly scared and afraid of what other people you don't even know might think of you

It's more ease of access to feel good material and mass communication that has caused the decay of morality.

There is always someone somewhere to tell you your right no matter what you are doing. There is always someone else to cheer you on even when someone is daming you. And through it all you are getting the feel good stroke of the effortless endorphin rush.
It is not just Japan but the entire world going through this even Islamic countries despite their best efforts.

>there’s no reasonable model of what an adult should be like. I don’t see any adults here
How do you decide that there are no adults if you have no model for what an adult would be? What are you comparing the Japanese against to come to that conclusion?
>salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed
Is your idea of childishness?
I was constantly embarrassed as a kid, and trying to fit into the crowd, be grown-up and cool. But well, my ideas shouldn't really matter here.
You are clearly making a judgement here on how an adult should be. You learned that in Japan. So you are clearly wrong about there being no model.
>something you wouldn’t have seen 30 years ago
Yes, things change.
In the thirties and forties Japanese men went around and invaded other countries, committing massacre upon massacre. Do you think they would be embarrassed to do this today?

Sauce? Where did he say that?

Anno's favorite anime is Strike Witches.

>I was constantly embarrassed as a kid, and trying to fit into the crowd, be grown-up and cool
exactly
it's funny because by saying like that anno is actually telling everybody how childish he is

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>Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

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War really fucked Japan forever.

>In an interview that dates from a few years back, Miyazaki not only criticized Hollywood, but those who enjoy its >“Americans shoot things and they blow up and the like, so as you’d expect, they make movies like that,” said Miyazaki at the time.

>“If someone is the enemy, it’s okay to kill endless numbers of them,” he continued. “Lord of the Rings is like that. If it’s the enemy, there’s killing without separation between civilians and soldiers. That falls within collateral damage. How many people are being killed in attacks in Afghanistan? The Lord of the Rings is a movie that has no problem doing that [not separating civilians from enemies, apparently]. If you read the original work, you’ll understand, but in reality, the ones who were being killed are Asians and Africans. Those who don’t know that, yet say they love fantasy are idiots.”

>“Even in the Indiana Jones movies, there is a white guy who, ‘bang,’ shoots people, right? Japanese people who go along and enjoy with that are unbelievably embarrassing. You are the ones that, ‘bang,’ get shot. Watching [those movies] without any self-awareness is unbelievable. There’s no pride, no historical perspective. You don’t know how you are viewed by a country like America.”

>Miyazaki has previously made critical comments about the United States, writing, “I dislike the United States that dropped the nuclear bombs and does not regret it.” He added that he was “against Americanization” and “hate[d] people who are proud that cheap Japanese cars are popular in America, and I look at people who wear badges of the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force that filled Vietnam with dioxins as enemies.” He also claimed to be “Anti-jeans, anti-bourbon, anti-burgers”, “Anti-fried chicken, anti-cola, anti-American coffee”, and “Anti-New York, Anti-West Coast, Disneyland go back to America!”

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Does a man that’s obsessed with Ultraman really have any right to comment on the immaturity of others?

that's the joke

I see your argument and raise you Unit 731

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>Unit 731
literally never happened
The only "evidence" of that shit was "gathered" by the Chinese and we all know how trustworthy they are

People never really grow out of their hobbies.

reminds me of that one manga about immortal WW2 soldiers that got scanlated a few weeks ago and had reddit literally fuming it wasn't an historically accurate rendition of unit 731

>reddit literally fuming
must have been a day ending in Y

They brought it upon themselves.

Lol.
Imagine being salty over America dropping bombs on an island of baby bayoneters.

Imagine watching the Lord of the Rings and thinking there were good Orcs.

What do you mean never happened the United States pardoned some members including the leader for their data on biological weapons against humans, stupid fuck. Read a book or some shit instead of going “mah Chinese bugmen.”

Reminds me of that Russian crack AU, Bearer of the Ring or something the like

Heck even if we remove 731 we still have the rape of Nanking.

Always knew he was a brainlet

>he thinks that quote is real
99% of Miyazaki "quotes" are fake, it's really surprising how long that "anime was a mistake" trollsubs was believed and spread

Don’t forget the death marches they conducted against captured POW’s, or the comfort women, or the beheading contests, or numerous other well documented crimes against humanity Japan pretends that didn’t happen because now they’re all about peace and love and whatever.

>Old man bitches that people aren't joyless twats like him
OK boomer

He is not wrong but could pick better examples

You know Tolkien regretted making the orcs irredeemable right