"Is this real life?" an ideology that has been revised throughout history several times. Even the film industry was influenced and one very prominent film is "The Matrix" (1999). But would you also believe that "The Matrix" was influenced by a Japanese anime called "Ghost in the Shell" (1995), a relatively unknown title to the west?
"Ghost in the Shell" is just one of many examples that had a great impact on western media. But what is this 'anime' that I'm referring to? The online definition is "a style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children". That last part is quite important, since there seems to be a huge problem for the vast majority of people to accept the medium as not only exclusively aimed at children but adults too. While I agree that a large portion of the contents are mainly aimed towards a younger audience. There are just as many 'mature' genres to choose from, ranging from the 'apocalyptic cyber punk' - things like "Akira" (1988) and "Serial Experiments Lain" (1998) to the erotic fantasy (not
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The overall populace of Japan feel that these people are giving the entire country a bad name. In these recent years, due to the population of 'otakus' increasing, more technology and jobs have been created to cater towards this community. In the technology department, virtual girls are preferred instead of real girls - developments into more intelligent and sexy females are then produced. For jobs - especially in Tokyo, Akihabara - maid cafés and cosplay girlfriends (you can hire a girl to dress as your favourite character to hold hands with you the whole day) have become a very common part time job. Who pays for these? The otakus of course. This isn't necessarily the biggest issue since it creates quite an interesting culture compared to the world. The biggest problem, where I stated earlier, are