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kleinbl00 · 2917 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hulu and latenight classic Anime, the adult way of reliving Saturday morning cartoons. AKA: rd95 gives his first impressions of a bunch of dusty old cartoons
Mecha anime is all about kaiju, which is all about Hiroshima. Americans came up with robot suits but they never made them 8 stories tall because the physics doesn't work and we don't have a psychological need to revisit giant things beyond our control destroying our cities. My best friend did his masters' thesis on all the influences The Matrix stole from without paying proper attention to the concepts. The Matrix is the movie that caused cyberpunk to be stillborn as a genre, the same way Star Wars killed science fiction.