Stop Guarding the Ghibli Gates: Your Gatekeeping Is Hurting Anime, Not Protecting It
Every time a Studio Ghibli film hits Netflix and suddenly everyone's posting about Totoro, a certain corner of anime fandom loses its collective mind. The discourse is predictable, exhausting, and — here's the uncomfortable truth — genuinely damaging to the medium these self-appointed guardians claim to love. It's time to have an honest conversation about why gatekeeping in anime culture is less about protecting art and more about protecting ego.