>>7 I have been thinking about this post a lot and an unreasonable amount of things tagged sci-fi now aren't sci-fi in more than the absolute most surface level sense. They are neither futuristic adventures nor do they posit any real possibilities for the future of technology or science beyond maybe being set in the near future with holograms and whatnot. Any futurism is not even window dressing in most modern anime.
I still think about how Gundam remains actually focused on the themes of people having adapted to space and then the way warfare works in a world that forces combat into closer ranges due to technological reasons (which are a bit bullshit and are mostly an excuse to have mobile suits not get instantly fucked by a salvo of BVR missiles, but it still ends up being interesting).
I have been thinking about this post a lot and an unreasonable amount of things tagged sci-fi now aren't sci-fi in more than the absolute most surface level sense. They are neither futuristic adventures nor do they posit any real possibilities for the future of technology or science beyond maybe being set in the near future with holograms and whatnot. Any futurism is not even window dressing in most modern anime.
I still think about how Gundam remains actually focused on the themes of people having adapted to space and then the way warfare works in a world that forces combat into closer ranges due to technological reasons (which are a bit bullshit and are mostly an excuse to have mobile suits not get instantly fucked by a salvo of BVR missiles, but it still ends up being interesting).