@unrandom27761@nyalra They hate the ppl that see and play it as an ero and try to punish them I MIGHT BE WRONG but i think that might be why the dark angel ending was added, bc it probably feels like the point they are trying to make in the game didnβt get through to them..
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As a result of pouring absolutely everything from the thirty years Iβve been alive into this project, every last element, from self-harm to drugs, religion, and sexβgot flagged during the review process. Each time it happened, the anime staff worked hard to keep the vision intact, insisting: βWe absolutely donβt want to let fear of regulation ruin what makes this work compelling,β and they kept pushing. Thanks to that, the NEEDY anime has been coming together in an almost undiluted, straight-from-the-bottle form. Seeing the staffβs passion and depth of understanding, and how strongly they believed that βthe concept of NEEDY GIRL has a reason to exist in this world,β and that βthere are certain expressions only this work can depict," Iβm now fully certain of this projectβs value.
When the voice actors performed the scripts Iβd written so nakedly and frankly, there were moments when someone, fully immersed, would start crying. In that instant, I realized it: what this work is depicting, in the end, is βhuman beings.β
A lot of people have discussed NEEDY with βthe internetβ at the center of it all.
As for me, Iβm proud to say I wrote out, in the original game, both the sweetness and the bitterness of the internet as Iβve seen it from childhood to the present. And because this is an anime born from that kind of work, of course we have to ask ourselves: βWhat was the internet, anyway?β Even the title of the new song I made with my friends this time is "INTERNET ANGEL".
After releasing the game, the huge reaction to it connected me, too, to an unspecified multitude across the world. And I was insulted at times, had admiration hurled at me at times, was loved at times, attacked at times. Who on earth are these faceless people? Trends, oshis, faith, sneering cynicism, call-outs and pile-ons, outrage fires, consumption, algorithms, SNS, love and hate, influencers, pop, culture, criticism, subculture, mainstream, illustration, animation.
My conclusion was: βhuman beings.β
The true nature of the internet is nothing special. Itβs simply βa gathering of human beings.β It isnβt anonymity, and it isnβt AI. Everything there is a collection of individuals: First there are people, and then there is the internet.
At the end of a long history, humanity finally took a small rectangle into its hands and connected, at light speed, with people all over the world. Faced with the first great transformation in human history, many people are tormented by both its merits and its harms. Now, people fear that excessive power so much that smartphones and SNS are being regulated around the world.
That overwhelming electromagnetic field, too, is βhuman beings.β
Picking at a single word to nail a celebrity to a cross and burn them for it, or elevating a nameless girlβwrapped in two-dimensional aesthetics as she broadcasts her feelingsβinto an idol to be worshiped... all of it is done by individual human beings, one by one.
The internetβs true nature was human beings.
And so, at the turning point of my mid-life, I had to depict across thirteen episodes everything Iβve experienced of βthe truth, the goodness, and the beauty human beings possess,β and in doing so, sublimate that strange youth I spent together with an unspecified multitude across the world into the comprehensive art form called animation.
That comes with immense pain. It also means we canβt avoid including extreme, blunt expressions, and Iβm sure countless opinions will fly back and forth. I think that, too, is proof that you are human. When the Taroman film ended on the caption βTaro Okamoto: Human,β I was overwhelmed, thinking: yes. Exactly this.
Me, and youβweβre not anonymity. Weβre not anime icons. Weβre not creators, or lurkers, or streamers, or scalpers, or fans, or antis, or Toshiaki, or Nanashi-san.
We are human beings who feel pain.
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