In a recent interview, anime producer Taro Maki talked about how the Japanese corporate mindset is affecting the industry's "originality."
  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’ve noticed this.

    Anime can do stuff the media being adapted cannot. And it’s the exception rather than the rule, when a studio uses animation to push beyond the source material.

    I’ve started being surprised when an anime is original, instead of an adaptation. And there is absolutely a difference when a story is made for animation.

    Edit: thinking about it further, I think I’d call the difference a difference of “energy”.

    Animation can show movement. Manga can only imply it. Even when manga does so very well, the budget required means adaptions often still end up being just a bunch of stillframes (cough one punch man).

    Manga, hence, contains a lot of pages of people just talking. Because that’s how you tell a story. And even when story is told using amazing art panels, anime tends to just turn those into panned stills.

    It’s kind of why I’ve gone back to manga, because then you get art you can take a momemt to actually take in at your own pace. The ability of recent anime to properly immerse seems to be suffering, at least for me.

    • Keegen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I think you perfectly put into words why I don’t enjoy watching adaptations of manga/LNs that I’ve read. Baring some exceptions, I always feel like the adaptation doesn’t really add much compared to the source material and in many cases it detracts from it, skipping scenes for the sake of pacing or just being badly animated because of budget/timing constrains.

  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
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    2 days ago

    Honestly, I consider the Japanese ecosystem to be very healthy. You have low risk webnovels, turn them into higher risk novels, higher risk manga, higher risk anime, and finally highest risk movies and video games. In this way, new blood is always entering the ecosystem, compared to the stagnant Western ecosystem which lacks a low and medium tier to test risks.

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    This is kind of shared across most media types now produced by corporations. An extreme aversion to “risk taking” whichreally translates to an extreme aversion to making up their own original shit.

    • molave@reddthat.comEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      For me, “we need more money to create better stuff” has become one of the biggest falsehoods of the time.

    • zabadoh@ani.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      It’s a reflection of the money involved with anime, or any other medium.

      The moment the banks get involved, they start demanding higher returns and lower risk in exchange for financial backing in an art that they don’t really care about the audience for.

      Same happened in Hollywood. The creative freedom dropped in the late 80s and 90s as production budgets soared.

      It’s why manga/manhwa/light novels can be creative, because the budget is essentially zero, so there’s no pressure to please anyone except the usually niche audience.