“Anime is UNREALISTIC!?“

We’ve come a long way from the dark ages of the mid 2000s, where anime fans said without a shred of irony, “It’s just ANIME it has no LOGIC lmao XD“. And yet, in all kinds of media discussion ’realism’ tends to come up for some strange reason. Allow for me to briefly tackle the idea in a general sense so we can draw a few lines. Japan’s Psychiatric Care: #.Wk_NIFWnGUk What is a School Idol?: Also, in case you’re familiar with my older, tangentially related videos (The Inherent Contrivance of Narrative and Children are so Damn Annoying), in retrospect, the arguments I posed in those videos I would construct differently today. In particular, with the Contrivance video I would frame the argument under verisimilitude, and for the Children one I would avoid the realism argument, as it’s kind of evide