The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.
In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Japanimation is a whole different art form.
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