We spit on the carcasses of animators and seiyuus from past battles. No anime has particularly captured the spirit of the good times (the 80s and 90s). Look at ourselves squabbling what is the best anime this season; we are not united. There's even some of us who say none of the anime this season is actually good. Inside our corrupted minds, the inner voice is telling us, "No, this anime will never be good as Anime X." It is how human nature works: we are negative, brutish, cynical beings.
But one adventurous director has decided to fight against the odds -- the nasty public that prides itself in deriding other animes. He walks to us, face-to-face. Despite the possible violence, he believe this is a fateful night for us. We may change our ideals and therefore should stay, he argues. Who is this man and why is he trying to make an anime that will unite us together? This brave soul is merely reckless. Not one fractale of hope remains in our miserable anime lives. He will need more than just a bunch of lucky stars and blessing from some shrine maidens.
This man takes out his sketchbook and flips the pages to show his masterpiece. Was it godly enough to cause the world to change at a whim? Us skeptics take a step closer, breathing more and more air than usual. Are we excited?
We can't be. Anime is a dying medium after all. The sick invasion of moe has dumbed anime down to the depths of stupidity. And we feel the greatness of today's animes are attributed to some form of disgusting perversion. We do not wish to understand. No, why should we understand today's minds? Let the kids play their iPads and watch their crappy Precure shows; us real anime fans want to engage in discussing and writing essays on the structuralist conventions and philosophical themes in our children's cartoons while listening to "Canon in D".
So what is this irrational excitement we are feeling? Is it a return to the bygone days of anime intellectualism? Why are we panicking as if this is our second chance to see a good anime?
What is this "Senyuu."?
It is an Anime. By Yamamoto Yutaka.
Anime is saved.
Thank you, Yamakan.
