HypersomniacLive: It's already underway, but it's not really surprising, we're talking about years of training. And the generations that were born and raised within this online social stuff, can't really appreciate what GOG used to be before entering this arena.
And on that note, this old dinosaur needs to go lie down, back's complaining from all my sitting here and chatting with you.
Have a nice evening/ night, and I'll see you later.
Good night all seeing eye of blue. And kudos on making someone much younger feel old.
CarrionCrow: Fucking King of Tennis...I audibly groaned when I learned that was a real thing.
As for Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop, I think there's more than one approach to the pseudo-philosophical thing.
There's stuff like Psycho Pass, which is based around the idea of a person being innately bad whether they ever commit a crime or not, which I find interesting, and then there's shit like the end of Evangelion, where I would bet money that if someone had taken a picture of the writer when they wrote that episode, it'd be a picture of a man with his head literally up his own ass.
Which got there because he was trying to get at the peyote enema.
I feel that the japanese animation industry has been running on overdrive for the last few years, behaving in a shark-like manner of, you-swin-or-you-die. Mostly because unlike syndication, the money in Japan comes from DVD and bluray boxset sales. Which only have a short lasting appeal. So every seaon (not even every year) they keep constantly producing and churning out new stuff, in the hopes of making the next big thing, that will last for three months until the next big hit arrives. A method which produces a lot of junk and damn little of quality.
Eventually something will break.