So I guess he’s pissed about Wall-E copying Freedom, too. ^^

I find that the Anime MR Sato has worked on involves a lot of characters that are very real and face very realistic/relatable issues and problems that must be overcome even in their fantasy settings, like Cowboy Bebop. On the other hand, even though other moe-anime are based in a real world (no fantasy elements or mecha aside usually) the characters seem completely fake to me.

Also, Eureka Seven may have been enough to make some bucks, but its nothing compared to the weight EVA still carries around. I think his comment has a lot to do with how Anime fans are kind of stubborn and simply dont like a lot of things and he probably has to deal with that a lot which stifles his imaginative capability = has ideas = can’t make them because his target audience won’t pay for them.

I think he finds serious themes with scifi elements to be fascinating because it forces us to take a look at our current world and what it could become it exaggerated, but instead the world prefers how to see their CURRENT world if girls sexual desires (or cuteness) are exaggerated to extreme levels and nothing more.

I dont know, thats my take on it. Could be wrong.

Well, Ergo Proxy is really one of the best anime, and when I say best..
I mean one of my favorite. He is right in a way. How much of the same crap
does Japan and the anime industry need?

And you know how I know John thinks so too…he wrote it twice in the same sentence by accident.

Good on him. Others should be just as expressive.

Marduk Scramble is one new titles that has much of what i talking about, hope the story is as nice as the lush visuals!

But i think that these outside japanese outsourcing companies have become better and better recent years so i dont see it as the “big problem” issue now.

I really dont see these past like 3 years have any major visual downsides and even the storys and genres have a quite broad spectrum too… The biggest thing i miss and think can be a good thing is to produce some more hardSF titles with less moe and more hardcore mechas and details. Put in more work on intricate coloring on characters like some of the late 80´s titles like Bubblegum Crisis etc.