And other Ukraine thoughts in this latest interview
Tomino being a liberal is really surprising. Not as surprising as William Gibson being a liberal, or Yoshitoshi Abe (Serial Experiments lain) being a weird fascist, but it’s still disappointing.
How do these people think so hard about things, create this kind of art, and come out the other side unable to understand their own messages?
How do these people think so hard about things, create this kind of art, and come out the other side unable to understand their own messages?
I mean, here’s the thing: he does understand his own message. He was a Marxist. But now his views have changed, and he’s no longer a Marxist, so what he says now and what stories he tells now will have a different message than the stories he told then.
To be fair, this interview was the first time I’ve seen him say something so explicitly anti-communist (I’ve read interviews from later in his career where he’s critical of the Soviet Union, which should have been the first warning sign, but y’know a lot of Boomer Leftists were, like Chomsky). It is kinda heartbreaking, but at the same time I can kinda understand where he’s coming from since he lived his entire life waiting for a cultural shift that never materialized.
What I’m getting from this is that you Zoomer’s have to execute us Millenials before we disappoint you, for the sake of the Revolution.
I’m happy to inform you I was mistaken. I got him mixed up with Chiaki J. Konaka, the other guy from Lain.
He’s the one who made the Digimon fight a manifestation of cancel culture. He’s also into Qanon
