Are Anime/Manga and Video Games the high culture of Japan...

Are Anime/Manga and Video Games the high culture of Japan? When it comes to dramas or movies nothing good seems to come from it, and in the realm of literature only few are widely read outside of Japan at all. Whereas with Anime and games you have cultural productions that are innovative and influential all over the world, which get recognition frkm a wide variety of people.

Both creatively (the amount of tropes being produced) as well as artistically (Lain/Eva/GitS/Akira/Miyazaki/Satoshi Kon/Your name) there is nothing in Japan that inspires and influences so many people in the world outside of this supposedly hated outsider/otaku nerd medium full of no life virgin losers.

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What about engineering, folklore, cuisine? They are not that worthless.

cuisine and technology are the epitome of Japanese culture; not some autistic drawings

>when it comes to dramas and movies nothing good seems to come from it

At least try hiding you don't know what you're talking about wannabe weeaboosama. It's really not that hard

That would be live-action film

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Anime is pop culture and pop culture isnt even real culture but jewish consumerist bullshit
Prove me wrong

>in the realm of literature only few are widely read outside of Japan

Literature includes poetry

Why would the grade of foreign reception make something "high" culture or not?

There are no Jews in Japan.

All culture is pop culture
What you believe to be the great classics of the past were the the most mainstream products of each age

Anime is on the same level as cartoons in the west. Always has been. Some anime movies have garnered critical acclaim, just as some animated movies have in the west. Most anime is still consumer level slop though, made entirely to pander to adults with disposable income and no obligations.

This, japan is probably going to be the forefront of robotics, not consumer tech.

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I am very well aware that most is just pop culture, but the big innovation still happens there. It's the fact that anime has gained such a dedicated fanbase that you are able to every once in a while take risks and become different.

What risks do you think have been taken since the 00s? Anime is as stagnant as it ever has been, content to churn out garbage content for addicted people who need to see the same rehashed isekai or comedy harem or mobage adaptation. When was the last time a truly inspirational show came out? If you say Madoka, that kind of proves my point.
What about Fate? Fate was a fairly groundbreaking VN but it has struggled to innovate much at all on the anime front, and now wallows in mobage hell with a bunch of mostly shit anime adaptations. The movies are alright though, but nothing quite like a Kon or Miyazaki or even a Shinkai movie. Yet it's among the most profitable franchises. Very cool.

Just the fact that you agreed that there was this sort of thing in the past is all I needed for my point. I don't think anime is great either but at least it has the potential for some innovation as it has shown in the past

>Kon or Miyazaki or even a
t. normalfag

I hate this meme. Western companies have made far greater progress in robotics than the Japanese have.

Anime is popular internationally because there's nothing like it here. Meanwhile artsy live action is everywhere.

same. i can't remember the last time i bought something that was made or designed in japan.

Normie works get the recognition and awards that carry across generations. That's why everyone knows what Akira or Gundam or Spirited Away are. That's why nobody who isn't a weeb knows what your favorite shows are.

Why would I want anyone or even everyone to know what my favorite anime are, so they can ruin it just like they ruined video games?

The problem is that 's also true in the west, if you ask a random dude what his favorite movie of 2019 is 90% of everyone will answer Avengers Endgame because that's the popular thing to like
Popularity doesn't make something good

Kill yourself, low-IQ normalfag.

Because we're posting in a bait thread about how anime is some transcendent art form so it only makes sense to post about how it's not, and how it's just another form of entertainment designed to push sales and gaudy merch.

Anime just happened to be their specialty, that's all.

Dramas portraying the cultural change after WW2 without it being the main focus are pretty interesting
My dad enjoys them for some reason

Do you have some examples for this?