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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Blue Box has been consistently ranking well

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I decided to start watching Lunar Legend Tsukihime, mostly because I thought it would be funny after hearing so many Type-Moon fans talk about how much they hated it

    I may have overestimated it

    I figured they just were mad that it wasn’t faithful to the VN but uh

    I have never seen an anime with less animation than this

    There’s a scene in episode 1 with utterly unmoving background characters in a cafeteria, and then in episode 2, same cafeteria, exact same frozen background characters

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I decided to start watching Lunar Legend Tsukihime, mostly because I thought it would be funny after hearing so many Type-Moon fans talk about how much they hated it

    I may have overestimated it

    I figured they just were mad that it wasn’t faithful to the VN but uh

    I have never seen an anime with less animation than this

    There’s a scene in episode 1 with utterly unmoving background characters in a cafeteria, and then in episode 2, same cafeteria, exact same frozen background characters

    It's an extremely bad adaption but I do find it very funny how (Tsukihime spoilers)
    Satsuki lives, unlike any of the VN routes.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Since folks are interested I'll start posting the table of contents for each week. Here's the most recent one:
    Me & Roboco (Cover/LCP/20p)
    ONE PIECE
    Jujutsu Kaisen
    SAKAMOTO DAYS
    My Hero Academia
    The Elusive Samurai (CP)
    Akane Banashi
    Witch Watch
    Super Smartphone
    Nande Nanda-san (Oneshot, 15p) by Kawaguchi Yuuki
    MASHLE (CP)
    Blue Box
    Mission: Yozakura Family
    PPPPPP (CP)
    High School Family
    Earthchild
    Undead Unluck
    Doron Dororon
    Protect Me! Shugomaru
    Ayashimon (END)

    Shounen Jump Issue #27:
    Cover, Lead CP: ALIENS AREA (New Series)
    CPs: Akanebanashi, Blue Box, High School Family
    Absent: Jujutsu Kaisen

    Akane banashi seems to be doing good (yay), super smartphone is in the range where its placement is more based off early editorial impression, so floating mid to high is probably good.

    Blue Box's placement is a bit low, but its volume sales are solid. It's quite good as a romance series for folks interested.

    And I should give the elusive samurai another shot. I loved assassination classroom but this one didn't grab me, and it seems to be blowing up.

    Akane Banashi i'm happy is doing well so far - It's a lot of fun, and it's introducing a whole bunch of people (myself included) to a neat aspect of a culture.

    Super smartphone seems like one of thsoe ones that could turn into something good, or could trip and fall on it's arse. Earthchild very much feels like it's rapidly squandering any potential it had.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Me and my son (12) finished watching the Eva Rebuild movies

    His reaction to 3.0+1.0

    Dad what happened?

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mill wrote: »
    For sure, media companies outside of Japan have their share of bullshit issues. It's very annoying that we have setups where a ton of properties never get a fair shake, despite advances in technology making fairly easy to give them exposure to a large audience, just to see how things do.

    Also I'd probably cut some companies some slack, if the decision making wasn't entirely based on profits. Like it's one thing to push a series over another because you absolutely love the series, even though it does pull in the ratings that the other series was getting. If you're dealing with things solely from a profits perspective though, you shouldn't cut things because they don't do well in your domestic market, if they happen to pull in a reasonable profit abroad somewhere. I mean, from a pure profits angle, you probably do want to have enough that does well domestically getting supported, even if it turns less profit, just to ensure that you maintain enough interest at home to ensure you have good options when it comes to the future workforce. Unfortunately, seems like to many people are just being stupid capitalists, who only look at pure profits, but are so insular in their mindset that they are missing a ton of opportunities because "it didn't do well in our backyard or getting through our BS standards, so it must be a loser, even though it's doing really well in X!"

    When you look back at some of the anime cliches from the super boom of anime, like the girls with guns thing? That was basically just one studio, Bee Train, whose owner really fucking went whole ham on that for about ten years straight. Same for trashy T&A with ARMS. Just one studio that is like "We're gonna fucking make this WORK."

    And now they're out of business so we can have fifteen thousand incel isekais a season, like the market demands.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    looking through Bee Train's list of productions, it doesn't seem THAT common... like there's definitely something to that idea but I don't think they accounted for the majority of shows with the trope you're talking about.

    Arms was very prolific and made a ton of relatively famous porn series that have the same look though, for sure.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    For Bee Train, I've mostly heard Noir, Madlax, and El Cazador de la Bruja referred to as the "girls with guns trilogy" even though their plots are unconnected.

    I've heard some consider Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom to be a spiritual follow-up or unofficial fourth part of the trilogy, though it features a guy and a girl as the main characters instead of two girls.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mill wrote: »
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Mill wrote: »
    For sure, media companies outside of Japan have their share of bullshit issues. It's very annoying that we have setups where a ton of properties never get a fair shake, despite advances in technology making fairly easy to give them exposure to a large audience, just to see how things do.

    Also I'd probably cut some companies some slack, if the decision making wasn't entirely based on profits. Like it's one thing to push a series over another because you absolutely love the series, even though it does pull in the ratings that the other series was getting. If you're dealing with things solely from a profits perspective though, you shouldn't cut things because they don't do well in your domestic market, if they happen to pull in a reasonable profit abroad somewhere. I mean, from a pure profits angle, you probably do want to have enough that does well domestically getting supported, even if it turns less profit, just to ensure that you maintain enough interest at home to ensure you have good options when it comes to the future workforce. Unfortunately, seems like to many people are just being stupid capitalists, who only look at pure profits, but are so insular in their mindset that they are missing a ton of opportunities because "it didn't do well in our backyard or getting through our BS standards, so it must be a loser, even though it's doing really well in X!"

    When you look back at some of the anime cliches from the super boom of anime, like the girls with guns thing? That was basically just one studio, Bee Train, whose owner really fucking went whole ham on that for about ten years straight. Same for trashy T&A with ARMS. Just one studio that is like "We're gonna fucking make this WORK."

    And now they're out of business so we can have fifteen thousand incel isekais a season, like the market demands.

    Again, the problem is they are looking at one demographic primarily in Japan. Like incel isekai being the successor of trashy hareem anime, says some really bad things about the fandom that the industry caters to. It's also obnoxious that this awful group of people somehow are capable of giving the industry enough funds to keep things going. I guess we can all hope that shitty incel gacha mobile games will manage to cannibalize this part of the market at some point. I have serious doubts that this demographic has super duper good paying jobs. It's just that they are frivolous spenders and haven't bankrupted themselves yet.

    That's a lot of wishful you've got going in your thinking there. Quite a lot of the consumers of this stuff have regular jobs, they just spend all of their income that isn't spent on bills on this shit. If you are expecting it to magically disappear you are going to be disappointed for a real long time. They've figured out the lowest common denominator that sells, and that stuff sticks around for the long haul.

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  • ZythonZython Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Part of the problem with addressing the international market is that the anime market is far bigger overseas than the manga market, especially after the '00s manga/bookstore bubble popped

    Like a series barely exists in the popular Western conscious until it gets a TV series here, with rare exceptions like Chainsaw Man breaking the trend, so even then Jump would have to be setting series up for a TV adaptation as the definition of success. Problem is that tends to go against the Japanese ideal of a show being advertisement for the manga...

    Yeah, I remember Viz trying to make Jojo happen in the US several times, but it was the anime that made it stick. Anime popularity leads to manga popularity in the US, where it works the other way in Japan.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I bet if the US had cheap and common weekly and monthly comic magazines in newsstands like they do over there manga would do just fine here, but our comics distribution channels are all fucked up by the insane system western comics publishers and shops have ended up on.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Weekly comics I don't really think are sustainable outside of grinding artists into a fine dust, but yes we could do better in a variety of ways.

    When comic books moved from being cheap trash on news stands to collectors items, that was the beginning of the end.

    Also dismantle and destroy Diamond.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    For Bee Train, I've mostly heard Noir, Madlax, and El Cazador de la Bruja referred to as the "girls with guns trilogy" even though their plots are unconnected.

    I've heard some consider Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom to be a spiritual follow-up or unofficial fourth part of the trilogy, though it features a guy and a girl as the main characters instead of two girls.

    I've been trying to work my way through their Avenger for a while now, and it's a chore. Great music though!

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm not sure what gacha games have got to do with this

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I think the unfortunately truth is that a lot of people with highly suspect taste have perfectly good jobs and plenty of disposable income

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I also kind of think that, when we're talking about manga popularity, it's not really an issue of having loads of disposable income? That just feels like a weird tangent

    You're not getting some lonely nerd buying a hundred copies of the tankoubon like it's a fuckin idol cd or something, it's just this stuff is broadly popular

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Otaku wraps this shit up in their very identity.

    Gacha aint going to eat up shit. Their market doesn't work anything like the assumptions people make for normal economic analysis. Three major groups, otaku, gyaru, and yankees, make up the majority of the purchasing power in the country for anime and manga etc, and shape the majority of the media they produce.

    They aren't reading this stuff because they're unable to function. They're literally going out and finding jobs to make money specifically to be able to afford to buy more because its part of who they are.

    That stuff doesn't fade away with simple tricks like new markets.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Otaku wraps this shit up in their very identity.

    Gacha aint going to eat up shit. Their market doesn't work anything like the assumptions people make for normal economic analysis. Three major groups, otaku, gyaru, and yankees, make up the majority of the purchasing power in the country for anime and manga etc, and shape the majority of the media they produce.

    They aren't reading this stuff because they're unable to function. They're literally going out and finding jobs to make money specifically to be able to afford to buy more because its part of who they are.

    That stuff doesn't fade away with simple tricks like new markets.

    It's not totally static either though. The $150 visual novels that game studios were like "We need our fans to buy 2-3 copies of every game to stay in business!" have been cannibalized by gacha shit. Web novels are eating into the light novel space and driving publishers crazy because these people are flighty internet lunatics. I have to assume VTubers took a chunk out of the idol space, especially during the pandemic. Streaming has definitely supplanted DVD sales at this point and a lot of the weird shit like unfinished episodes to be touched up for the ACTUAL profit-making market has gone away. The actual content may not change much, but the pipeline and form of presentation can.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Otaku wraps this shit up in their very identity.

    Gacha aint going to eat up shit. Their market doesn't work anything like the assumptions people make for normal economic analysis. Three major groups, otaku, gyaru, and yankees, make up the majority of the purchasing power in the country for anime and manga etc, and shape the majority of the media they produce.

    They aren't reading this stuff because they're unable to function. They're literally going out and finding jobs to make money specifically to be able to afford to buy more because its part of who they are.

    That stuff doesn't fade away with simple tricks like new markets.

    It's not totally static either though. The $150 visual novels that game studios were like "We need our fans to buy 2-3 copies of every game to stay in business!" have been cannibalized by gacha shit. Web novels are eating into the light novel space and driving publishers crazy because these people are flighty internet lunatics. I have to assume VTubers took a chunk out of the idol space, especially during the pandemic. Streaming has definitely supplanted DVD sales at this point and a lot of the weird shit like unfinished episodes to be touched up for the ACTUAL profit-making market has gone away. The actual content may not change much, but the pipeline and form of presentation can.

    Yesh sure. The main point though is this stuff exists because there's a safe and stable set of customers who dont just buy it but actively want more of it.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Me and my son (12) finished watching the Eva Rebuild movies

    His reaction to 3.0+1.0

    Dad what happened?

    It was all a toku performance and they closed down the sound stages while also rebooting humanity.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Since folks are interested I'll start posting the table of contents for each week. Here's the most recent one:
    Me & Roboco (Cover/LCP/20p)
    ONE PIECE
    Jujutsu Kaisen
    SAKAMOTO DAYS
    My Hero Academia
    The Elusive Samurai (CP)
    Akane Banashi
    Witch Watch
    Super Smartphone
    Nande Nanda-san (Oneshot, 15p) by Kawaguchi Yuuki
    MASHLE (CP)
    Blue Box
    Mission: Yozakura Family
    PPPPPP (CP)
    High School Family
    Earthchild
    Undead Unluck
    Doron Dororon
    Protect Me! Shugomaru
    Ayashimon (END)

    Shounen Jump Issue #27:
    Cover, Lead CP: ALIENS AREA (New Series)
    CPs: Akanebanashi, Blue Box, High School Family
    Absent: Jujutsu Kaisen

    Akane banashi seems to be doing good (yay), super smartphone is in the range where its placement is more based off early editorial impression, so floating mid to high is probably good.

    Blue Box's placement is a bit low, but its volume sales are solid. It's quite good as a romance series for folks interested.

    And I should give the elusive samurai another shot. I loved assassination classroom but this one didn't grab me, and it seems to be blowing up.

    One more "I like Akane-banashi" here -- it's impressive how comprehensible it is despite being about a subject that I a:know basically nothing about except for that one Phoenix Wright case, and b:am missing a tremendous amount of cultural background as well.

    Super Smartphone I read for the first two chapters and then it all started to feel a bit too much like Death Note for me.

    Blue Box somehow I still don't quite know where it's going to end, which is surprising at this point -- I mean, there's the obvious ending but the story is still keeping things open enough to be interesting without just being annoying about it.

    Earthchild I'm rapidly losing interest in, it seems like it can't quite make up its mind what it wants to do / how much story there is to tell.

    And if anyone isn't reading Witch Watch, that is a tremendous amount of fun and by some margin the most varied thing currently in there. There's a lot of "what if the world was a bit magic? let's make some funny gags about it", sure, but they are good gags, and they are varied. And there's a very slow-burning ongoing romantic subplot which has at at least one point made me gasp out loud when I realised what the plot had done. And then there's things like the entire chapter which is an issue of the (very bad) in-universe manga that one of the characters writes. Or the chapter which was, literally, about the best ways to age denim. I am not kidding about this:
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    There's other stories where I'm more curious about what will happen next, but Witch Watch is the thing I enjoy reading the most.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mill wrote: »
    Thing is they don't have better jobs than others, which is my point. They are also a small part of even Japan's consumer base. There are two reasons why they have such a huge sway over the people in charge of the industries that cater to them. First, they are willing to piss away every penny they can on their hobby and this is usually a sign of poor impulse control. Let's keep in minds their are levels for this kind of thing. For every person that spends their way into homelessness, there are plenty more that are still impulsively spending their income on their hobby, but have just enough control to make sure they can pay their bills. The other one is that both the manga and anime industry suffer from the issue where the people running them have gotten stuck in their ways and are incapable of questioning the very dynamics that their business model operates on. One aspect of that has been focusing heavily on collector box art sales. I'm sure at some point that made a shit ton of sense, when even the industry was kind of niche even in Japan. If your costumer pool is extremely limited, but many of them are willing to pay triple or more than the average consumer for a fancy art box with the manga, game, anime or novel in include, then it's not a bad business model. Just that at this point, there is probably far more money to be earned by not being so focused on box art sales and realizing that some places can crush the box art returns by just solo stuff as standard issue in much larger quantities because last I checked, even among non-Japanese otaku, the box art model doesn't do so well.

    As for the gacha thing. Being an otaku doesn't magically give them more income than other people and chances are they are pissing away money on the microtransaction shit in those games. This means they are going to have less money for other shit and mobile games are specifically designed to exploit people that have poor impulse control. The guy that impulsively purchases every box art set for Fate franchise anime, is also the guy that probably easily gets suckered into spending thousands on each banner for Fate/Grand Order.

    You seem to still be stuck in the idea that the only reason they buy this stuff is poor impulse control, and that eventually itll all crash and burn.

    If that was a real thing, it would have crashed and burned a long time ago. For better or worse, no matter what your theory is, no matter whose spending or why, it's here to stay.

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  • GridlinkGridlink Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    For Bee Train, I've mostly heard Noir, Madlax, and El Cazador de la Bruja referred to as the "girls with guns trilogy" even though their plots are unconnected.

    I've heard some consider Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom to be a spiritual follow-up or unofficial fourth part of the trilogy, though it features a guy and a girl as the main characters instead of two girls.

    I have very fond memories of what I think is the first episode of Noir watching it on repeat with my high school buddies, but I also recall the rest of the series being pretty mediocre. I'd bet it has not aged well at all. Apparently Madax and El Cazador de la Bruja are better but I have not seen either. Or if I watched them it was so long ago that I can't remember.

    I did buy volume 1 of Madlax with the fancy ammo box shaped hard box but I cannot recall if I've ever actually watched that DVD. I don't think I even watched the series fansubbed when it was airing so chalk that up to my period of buying anime DVD's purely based on how cool the packaging was.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    AniMenagerie Season 4 is living up to its subtitle of The Big Dumb Shonen Tournament Arc by being nothing but fight scenes tonight, which will continue for the next few weeks. Wrapping up at the end of the month with the entire final Keijo!!!!!! tournament, of course.

    And we've got a special fighting tournament double feature lined up for anyone that's not busy drinking and/or blowing themselves up on July 4th.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    i never actually watched noir but i can report that the soundtrack sure as hell holds up, thank you kajiura yuki
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O3-ohtxxsw
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUv5WW9lNYo

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    okay i've been relistening to the whole OST which i'm pretty sure i haven't heard since my middle school days and man it is wild how instantly everything all came flooding back

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    A new Kanojo mo kanojo chapter.

    KmK is definitely 100% aware that this harem isn't really Naoya's, he's just the one boy in what is actually Saki's secret bisexual harem.

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    There's one song in particular off the Kara no Kyoukai soundtrack that I really like, from the last part of the 7th film. I think Sony went on a DMCA spree though, can't seem to find it on youtube.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Skeith wrote: »
    There's one song in particular off the Kara no Kyoukai soundtrack that I really like, from the last part of the 7th film. I think Sony went on a DMCA spree though, can't seem to find it on youtube.

    The whole OST is incredible, and the BR set was a very easy purchase for me. It's a gorgeous film on every level.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    DANDADAN 59 brings some useful partying advice

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I had real problems with kara no kyoukai. I dunno if it was the translation, but the story seemed to keep doing this
    1. Interesting mysterious thing happens. A little bit of action.
    2. Return to home base, explain to each other in mysterious terms what the mysterious thing was and what they have to do about it.
    3. Go out with a plan and resolve the mysterious thing with lots of cool action.

    My problem was everything they talked about in 2 was complete and utter gibberish, every time. Just meaningless circular logic waffle, quasi mystical/spiritual/philisophical "says thing that sounds meaningful but if you think about it makes no sense whatsoever" and I kept wondering if the translation was just really bad and they were talking about deep symbolic cultural stuff. Or it was just gibberish. Maybe it makes sense and I'm too dumb to get it. I don't know.

    I couldn't tell the difference, and since 2. is like, the soul of any show for me, I stopped after a couple of movies.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mysst wrote: »
    Ayashimon ending fucking sucks

    It's been sort of impressive watching the number of series that have gotten brutally reaped recently. Candy Flurry was another one where the premise was real strong and then bam, dead. Certainly gives the vibe that Shonen Jump is always hunting the Next Big THing, and if it's not blowing up, well time to make space for another shot at the big time.

    Which i can sort of understand, but also i wonder how many of these series could have been really good if they'd been allowed time to grow. They also (from what i've gathered, i could be very wrong), seem to be laser focused on their local Japanese market, even when the manga is blowing up in the west via the Shonen Jump app or similar. Which seems short sighted to me, but hey.

    I think Shuisha learned a lesson from their Attack on Titan fuck up, but I'm not sure it was the right one.

    (Short version: there's a tradition that mangaka tend to focus on a single publication to release to - part of it is that publications tend to have their own orientation and "voice", so a series written to appeal to one may be a poor fit elsewhere, but part of it is just social stricture. Famously, AoT got initially shopped to Shuisha, and they rejected it, expecting the author to either revise it or create a new series. They were not expecting him to go sell it to rival Kodansha, or for it to get as big as it did.)

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I will say this, Jump Plus manga don't immediately feel to me like what I stereotypically think of as the Jump "house style" - if you showed me Spy x Family, Kaiju no 8, and Takopii all in a row and told me to guess which magazine I'd guess Afternoon Kodansha before I guessed a Shueisha imprint

    So maybe someone in Shueisha learned the right thing even if the main magazine's editorial staff didn't

    Anzekay on
  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    really capturing the early aughts' anime zeitgeist in a 30-second clip there, huh

    and tbf Linkin Park did have a Lawyer Friendly totally-not-Gundam X on the cover of Reanimation around that time

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