Now everything looks too real and shiny. The real world has smudges and surface unevenness and dust.

Sometimes it makes me wonder whether the japanese are correct in that the appearance of the real world is not something that is worth aspiring to replicate.

>>2

I thought the Japanese aspired at all times to see and appreciate the beauty of nature. To live with it. Either you are referring to the more modern, industrial Japanese population and society, the japanese artists who prefer anime over reality, or somehow I'm mistaken.

>>3
I was referring to animu, yes. Should've been more explicit. Though to be honest, I haven't seen the same sort of obsessive superficial realism in japanese art as I have in the west... though again this may be due to my equally superficial knowledge of the former.