The truth is, reactions from the audience are not something that can be predicted, and the ‘difficult-to-understand’ works are there precisely to foster an audience. Back in the day, there was a culture of watching ’slightly complex films’ at small arthouse theaters, and that’s what gave us some room to take on new things ourselves. But now, there are no such spaces, and I feel everything has become a bit shallower.
The most relevant quote from the article. Emphasis mine.
Hear me out before you crucify me. You’re going to crucify me, but hol’ up, just listen. Spirggan was pretty bad. Why was the special forces operator in high school? If he’s so amazingly good, why does he also have to go to high school? Surely the military can teach him to only eat the red crayons when he wants a spicy fajita night. Why, anime? Why does everyone have to be in high school? I hate it so fucking much.
Hey, anime, I’m old AF, I don’t want to watch shows about kids in high school. High school sucked. I hated it and I’m glad it’s over. Until I transferred over to the Montesori School for “bad kids” high school was the worst thing in my life. The school for “bad kids” was actually the good school for good kids that weren’t fucking idiots that didn’t suck the main line dick. All the “bad kids” that got kicked out of regular high school (like me) flourished when they weren’t constricted with bullshit rules and cliques and social standards. Yeah, all the people I used to scrap with, used to get in fights with, turns out it was fine. Who would have guessed?
Then I grew up and had to have a real job, then capitalism was the worst thing in my life. Baby steps though, y’know.
Yep. Totally fair. I get it.
Spriggan could have been so much better though if MC wasn’t a high school kid who lives on his own and rides a motorcycle and is also an elite oper8tor. Can he not just be that guy but also not be in high school? “Oh no! I have to do this combat op against supernatural beings, but if I miss another day of class I’ll get detention!” WTF is this?
Are we sure it isn’t that the industry expanded and that industry expansion massively targets the easiest profits?
Like, if you go back to the golden era and look at the total number of animes that were being produced per season, I am willing to bet that it was 10% of what is produced per season today.
Also like, I don’t completely hate the adaptation stuff? Adaptations can be very good. Delicious in Dungeon. Land of the Lustrous. Etc.
I feel like we’ve never complained that non-animated movies adapt literature too much.
I feel like we’ve never complained that non-animated movies adapt literature too much.
Film and TV adaptations have consistently been widely panned as terrible across the board, at least by critics and people who have read the originals.
Anime used to be the same way, but now adaptations are actually pretty good most of the time as a result of sort of weird convergence of the LN, manga, and anime industries where it’s almost like a pipeline for workshopping scripts in prose form.
The japanese corporate mindset and the material conditions of japanese industries have a base superstructure relationship.
Yeah, I think if anything it’s a similar issue that the literature being adapted is itself very frequently uninteresting and the adaptations, though certainly they usually add things, do not add nearly as much as they could.
Part of the reason for the huge emphasis on manga adaptation specifically is that you practically have the script and storyboard right there already, and it is rare for an anime to heavily emphasize elements requiring a lot of new storyboarding (exceptions include Bleach TYBW and Mob Psycho, and even still they are mostly the same).
But also of course another reason that applies to both cases is that capital is risk-averse, so producers overwhelmingly gravitate toward work that already has fans.
Well that’s kind of the point. If they didn’t target profits, instead of adapting the same thing over and over again that panders to the most wide-spread audiences, they could have animated more unique work, using the same amount of effort, and less overworked workers, that was put into making the not so hit series: “A wonderful moment of blissful ignorance, how my life got turned upside down when God reincarnated me as a Fridge.” Or we get stuff like One Frame Man
“A wonderful moment of blissful ignorance, how my life got turned upside down when God reincarnated me as a Fridge.”
You’re joking… But: https://myanimelist.net/anime/52619/Jidou_Hanbaiki_ni_Umarekawatta_Ore_wa_Meikyuu_wo_Samayou
(i actually quite like it for the slop it is)
You’re right though.
The funny this is that i wasn’t joking, but sometimes life becomes comedy.
Shit is just getting less weird; I have yo delve into the old archives to get my fill of magical gay frogs killing god =C
At least we have that show about the volcel revolution this winter.
At least we have that show about the volcel revolution this winter.
What’s it called?
Shit is just getting less weird; I have yo delve into the old archives to get my fill of magical gay frogs killing god =C
Weird shit and magical gay frogs killing god? You want Sarazanmai. Trust me.
I will check it out… kero
FUCK YEAHHHH!!!
It only gets weirder.
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