This take is in the "Why did they put politics into my Metal Gear?!" category. Japanese fiction continues to win over people precisely because it's more than just pure entertainment. Japanese creators still manage to challenge audiences intellectually, politically, even aesthetically. Metaphor: ReFantazio, probably one of the best Japanese game releases this year is very political, not shying away at all from tackling class, race and even the literal point of this post, media dumbed down to escapism.