2000 Interview 02

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The information society is giving birth to many cynical people, and the establishment is doing more and more subliminal projections to citizens every year.

I think this method (MIDORI's direction this time) is the only way to legally or semi-legally destroy such distorted daily life.

Nowadays, it is difficult for civic groups to spread their movements using traditional organizing and past methodologies alone.

For example, we need to think about how to get young people who hang out in Shibuya to vote.
But in this day and age, if you just make a statement with words, it will be rejected by young people.

So, my way of doing things is to symbolize the embodiment of emotions in entertainment-oriented anime and indirectly appeal to them.

That's why I make unhealthy, deviant people appear in my anime.

The European Renaissance and the origins of Japanese commercial theater and film were very experimental and adventurous, but now everyone just copies the person next to them and does the same thing.

So no matter what happens in the Diet, most people are indifferent, and remain content in the pseudo-space and collective illusion of everyday life.

The field of creativity, which is the most flexible, is what we need to teach children as the cutting edge.

Currently the media only emphasizes beauty of appearance and looks.Anime also only features good-looking characters. I think that's why it's no good.

In the past, freak shows that toured the local area served children well, making up for what schools didn't teach them.
Anti-social, unusual, heretical...only when these things are accepted can a person's sense of self and choice be established.
But now, the experimentation has been lost from culture, and we are only repeating safe and harmonious practices. If that continues, there will be no place for children.

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