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Oh no, my actual #1 pet peeve from English class rears its ugly head again! (I can still hear a particularly passionate teacher of mine desperately trying to explain that a theme actually needs to say something, like a sentence, it can't just be a word)
Aside from your nice impromptu mini-essay, I will say that for whatever reason, the "first anime" someone watches, for most people, ends up desensitizing you more than you'd think to whatever flavor of strange anime logic it employs (ask me how I know, or rather, maybe don't). Also, sometimes it's just fun to have an anime that doesn't take itself too seriously, although the exact line is sometimes a little hard to discern: Eminence in Shadow for example is a terrifically fun time, poking fun at the tropes, but also... takes its responsibility to represent the tropes seriously enough that it becomes part of the attraction, thus coming a bit full circle? Almost like a stupider cousin of the thing where a too-sharp parody is mistaken for the real thing, a la Fight Club's take on fragile masculinity. Actually, now I really want a Motte thread on the movie to see that in action. A Motte Movie club night would be hilarious.
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