Dawg if this quote is actually from an interview, I'm entirely certain Fujimoto isn't some genius. He might genuinely just be mentally ill.
This is supposedly from a da vinci magazine interview with Fujimoto:
Not just in Japan—these days the whole world seems to be in an economic slump, and you could say that social structures of domination and exploitation have emerged. That might be something that gets reflected in the story.
But personally, I don’t necessarily think being used by someone else is always such a terrible thing. For example, there are street children in Mongolia who live inside roadside pipes. Every day they dig through garbage to find food, and then they mostly sleep so they don’t waste their strength. As long as they keep living like that, nothing really changes.
But if you ask whether that life is truly a bad thing, I’m not sure I can say that it is. In that sense, Denji’s life with Pochita was somewhat similar. It was certainly hard at times, but I didn’t want to portray it as necessarily an unhappy life.
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I'm trying to find a source rn, and I swear to god if ts is real I'm going to strangle this man what the fuck is wrong with him.
These are real children living in horrific conditions no their life is that bad Fujimoto. What the genuine fuck. There isn't a silverlining to that.
Edit: it's real. Fml.