(08-29-2018, 11:29 PM)Inquisitive Raven Wrote: I don't think the anime references really work. Keep in mind that the PoD for Earth Bet is in the 1980's, early enough to have a dramatic impact on Japanese media without Leviathan sinking Kyushu. And Leviathan sinking Kyushu pretty much destroyed Japanese media.
Did it? Or did it simply shake it up?
There was a huge diaspora of Japanese people, a lot of it to the US, so the industry might well have re-started somewhere in the USA... we might be seeing modern anime with first-run decent-quality English voice acting.