[@Tsar Gatto]
I've had a fair few people suggest I go and formally study philosophy (as well as psychology, and a few other subjects) due to my natural affinity/proficiency, but - as I mentioned previously - my passions tend to be very specific and I want to do focus entirely on my main project. This is another reason why feeling like this site distracts me is frustrating. I wouldn't be sticking around if I hadn't met some decent people.

Overall, literary fiction is the style of writing I've always worked with. This is one of the reasons why it took a long time to get my main project off the ground -- I couldn't properly flesh it all out until I'd worked my own philosophy and thoughts out entirely. While I've still got things to learn (everyone does), I do believe I'm at the point now where there's nothing I could learn that will actually be capable of compromising or making me doubt my ideas, so now I'm ready to move the project forward. I just need to sort through all the notes.

I'll keep in mind that you've mentioned wanting to see it, because - as you just said - yes, people are generally quite shallow and this is one of the aspects about society that my work heavily criticizes. I'm a very strong advocate of humanity awakening the potential within their mind and soul, and I can be pretty merciless against any ideology or attitude which I believe contributes to preventing that awakening.

I obviously (current avatar, and previous one which I drew) enjoy anime, but I'm very picky about the shows that I'll watch -- I won't just watch anything, though most of the media I do watch tends to fall into that sort of region, since I've given a lot of other media a pretty thorough try over the course of my life and found myself unable to really get into any of it.

In all honestly, I'm a [i]very[/i] picky person about everything, with very extreme likes and dislikes. I've got extremely high standards with virtually everything and I'm unwilling to lower them. This creates a situation where I've got very specific tastes and I usually tend to avoid anything outside of my aesthetic. I don't like many visual forms of art, but anime is one of the few styles that actually 'clicks' for me in my head, which is why all my characters are drawn in a style that resembles it (I say resembles because I don't believe I replicate it completely). You're right that anime is a big part of all of Japan's literature and media, because it has very close roots to their culture as a whole and most people are unaware of just how many things were influenced by it, even outside of Japan. I had to bring this up in another thread recently here.