There is a moment in many Japanese anime that Western viewers instinctively label as boring . Nothing happens.No dialogue.No music cue telling you how to feel. A character stands on a platform.Rain falls.A train approaches. And that moment — the one where “nothing happens” — is doing more emotional work than most dialogue-heavy scenes in Western cinema. This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. Why Japanese Anime Trusts Silence More Than Hollywood Trusts Words Silence Is Not Em
