>>13551092It's futile wanting to see anime in real life. People are ugly and imperfect, even with future tech.
I often notice how close to the base of homo anime I am, as I am weirded out by photos with face filters that enlarge the eyes, despite me being pro-anime-post-human.
We might be the ideal, ultra-hyperreal version of the people of a more fundamental virtual reality, which in itself might already be a virtual hyperreality etc., i.e. what midwits consider a "simulation" (fully inapt terminology, as this'd be actual lived, only reality for its subjects). Alternatively, we could be (bio)engineered but still situated in relative-base-layer post-ancestor-humans, e.g. by inhabiting a different planet. But this is much more complicated, because unlike a virtual reality, the memory (knowledge) manipulation aspect is non-trivial.
Our ugliness might just be their unnotable "quirks", and what they themselves deem ugly is Lovecraftian to us. By the same token, an anime character (or our homo anime descendants) might consider a singular mole as damning as we might a face after 72 hours of emergency pitbull attack surgery.
This thought isn't interesting because of the (trite) relativity of beauty-acceptability aspect, but rather because such a scenario would imply that the people of this successor layer would have forgotten their original, uglier form. The boring reason is because the successors simply have no knowledge (and it's inaccessible) of their ancestor layer's/population's dispositions.
The interesting reason would be if the ancestors decided they'd deliberately forget about their original ancestral form. There are reasons for it: because they'd want to fully take a break from the unpleasantness, rather than letting it weigh on them, drag them down.
The ancestor layer most likely is some form of virtual reality, so there's no natural import for information to begin with; everything would be a consequence of the ancestors letting us know.
