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There are so many anime I've watched that just... stop. Never to be seen again.
I often feel like it's because then you can't be 'wrong.' If you just copy/paste the script, or use the page as it exists as the storyboard with minimal changes or adaptation, even accounting for being in a different format and medium, then nobody can blame you if it doesn't turn out well. You didn't make any changes after all. If there were problems, it was the original creator's fault. Existing fans have to like it. It's exactly the same thing after all.
Same, Wit just was so damn good. But I highly recommend Kabaneri if you want some more AoT style animation from them
I think it's more about budget and workload, you can get a lot more runtime out of having people talking and explaining things over mostly static scenes of people standing still glaring or looking dumbfounded than you can out of high-animation-workload character movement that can resolve the movement in just a few seconds.
But no. Let's renew Ari-fucking-fureta for a second season.
*Checks notes*
Good
Just fucking give it to a studio that gives a shit please. Give it to the Vinland Saga guys!!
Absolutely that too, but I'm not sure how much it is. Maybe it's just confirmation bias (and I haven't thought THAT hard about this), but I feel like it's not something that you see anywhere near egregiously in original shows that were made for anime to begin with. Could also just be that the studios who tend towards originals adapt with a different general philosophy too.
Another large part is this. Most anime aren't made to be a standalone, well done show in and of itself. They're an expensive advertisement for the manga/light novel/merchandise that has a way better profit margin. The production companies don't want it to be its own thing. They want it to be like the thing that they're actually trying to sell.
Coming soon to AniMenagerie...!
The best descriptor I could come up with for that show is Charming
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I've never seen anything quite like it, but it feels very well realized from the jump
this is boruto erasure. boruto is very good, like warm blanket
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
I have to say that Naruto/Boruto is (was?) one of the shows that when I hear people talking up how good a fight scene was and I took a look out of curiosity, it was usually pretty impressive chunks of animation, especially in direction and choreography of the scenes, without a lot of the... above things that I complained about that plagues shounen stuff. Not always, but much more than most other things in my memory.
Demon Slayer's issue isn't the pacing, at least as an anime watcher I say that, it's the content. I do like some of the characters even if they're pretty simple, but the show wastes a bunch of them. The worst offender for me probably being Nezuko. She in theory should be one of the most interesting characters, and she should arguably be a second protagonist since it's her relation with her brother that is like the emotional core of the plot but... nah. She can't speak, and only gets like at most one moment of character development per arc.
Also for the fights: I do appreciate that most of the big fights feel like slug out brawls that sells the idea that these are people fighting almost unkillable monsters. What I don't like is (human) characters just shrugging off injuries and essentially sleeping them off goku style. It cheapens the impact of what are presented as really brutal 'mess-up-once-and-you're-dead" fights. It also runs into the common shonen thing of asspulling wins for the heroes out of nowhere. Which is like fine to do sometimes, but has done it a shockingly high number of times with what ultimately are not that many fights.
On the plus side from the anime is Demon Slayer has a killer (Japanese, I haven't listed to the dub) voice cast so that helps build up characters who'd otherwise fall flat from lack of development. Like the VAs for the latest anime villains killed it, and made me actually have some interests in villains who otherwise were pretty one note.
It was so odd how they stretched out the Endeavor training stuff but then the Villain arc got rushed through.
More fate/zero stuff happening WHO CARES BEST CHARACTER IS HERE!
In kill la kill Zonugal found his new Nanami
And we wrapped My Hero Academia season 1 with BIG PAWNCH
Me, one millisecond after hitting play on any random episode of Kill la Kill:
lmao