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.
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.