Renowned anime director Kazuchika Kise, known for directing Ghost in the Shell: Arise, voiced his concerns over the growing prevalence of isekai themes in
the real world is pretty great if you make good choices.
but it’s a lot easier to make crappy choices, like watching Isekai and never going outside. living in a escapist fantasy bubble and eating doordash is a fasttrack to being miserable.
A lot of choices are made for us. People who think it’s down to only choices probably ignore all the luck and privileges they experienced. I could have been born in much worse circumstances than I was, and that would not have been due to any choice I made. Children dying in war zones made no choices to get there.
the real world is pretty great if you make good choices.
but it’s a lot easier to make crappy choices, like watching Isekai and never going outside. living in a escapist fantasy bubble and eating doordash is a fasttrack to being miserable.
A lot of choices are made for us. People who think it’s down to only choices probably ignore all the luck and privileges they experienced. I could have been born in much worse circumstances than I was, and that would not have been due to any choice I made. Children dying in war zones made no choices to get there.