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[–] lvxferre@ani.social 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I could go some extra length to say everything wrong with this text, and a bit more, but I'll TL;DR. The text fails to take into account that

  1. different audiences forge different associations with the tropes contained within a work;
  2. people from "random" countries (such as the author, or me) are not the target audience of those Japanese works.
  3. there are a thousand themes to explore within fantasy. Social commentary is only one of them, and by no means obligatory.
  4. every theme that you insert into a work dilutes the value of the other themes within it.

Once you do take those things into account, most of the text crumbles.