Anonymous: <p>I feel like anime is becoming a little too meta humor lately. I kinda miss the day when a show would come up with a patently ridiculous premise and then proceed to play it as seriously and melodramatically as possible. </p>

Hm! Yeah, I mean, I haven’t really watched any recent animes, although I’ve absorbed some of them from Tumblr to a degree.

But yes, I have to say I prefer that style, in all fiction.

That surreal mixture of ridiculous and melodramatic… tragic and comic… angst and horror and intricate logic and silly puns and filthy smut, all mingled together, the way they are in this glorious mess of a real world.

I don’t know. It’s just the best. Every great writer since Shakespeare has understood that.

In my opinion.