Gendai Goyaku Episode 1 Discussion

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Jan 12, 12:54 AM

handa_cohomology

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Aug 2024

An exposition done good

I honestly think this is an OK episode that I can recommend to some of my relative who found themselves powerless of the daily life struggles, facing the pressure of living and even from colleagues and such. Many times they found themselves being targeted by people surrounding them, and feels extremely unhappy having and had interacted with them. Those unhappiness, and more seriously, problems are usually of multiple causes, either from some annoying colleagues, accidents, mask effect... or from themselves(in most cases, both), it's generally hard attribute the cause of these issues, or at least finding an attribution that is agreed by all. And the actual solutions... are usually very hard on the people whom committed the problems.
Well, the play "gendai goyaku" didn't propose a genuine solution directly targeted to this problem either, instead, they propose to connect with similar people feeling this way, and (I also agree and believe to be very effective) facilitates own hobby to transfer the focus from the failure of interaction. "Isn't this a runaway? Shouldn't we actually treat it?" Same words is brought up in question in the play. It in fact uncovers many people's reasons watching (at least certain specific genres) of anime (typical iseikai for example. and btw I don't think there is anything wrong with that, but~):

Almost everyone are constantly confronted with dissatisfaction, and many dreamed that, [*subconsciously: it is because their lack of certain "power," certain peripheral however esoteric forces of power, that leads to this dissatisfaction, and] by attaining them magically one day, they could revert the dynamics of the relations with people, and eliminate the dissatisfaction. To be honest, if such power does exists, and one does attain them, they would probably change the table of power dynamics with people. However, as one can already expect my next sentence --- the magic attaination, well, depending on your definition of magic and power, is very scarce in hundreds years of history.
Compared to brain power used to facilitate this fantasy, it might worthwhile to go a few reasoning on the typical problem one had confronted, maybe being a little open to what people are saying? maybe pay a little attention to people's reaction and emotions instead of pouring all I wanted to say at once? Maybe it is better to set my ego a little off for a while in several discussions? Maybe just aim for completion not perfectness? Perhaps a few more calm and rational thinking directly to the problem could turn on your internal magic in resolving dissatisfaction, which may arrive sooner than that extraterrestrial power :) ~

handa_cohomologyJan 12, 1:05 AM

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