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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)
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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His reaction to 3.0+1.0
Dad what happened?
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.
Arms was very prolific and made a ton of relatively famous porn series that have the same look though, for sure.
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.
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.
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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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.
I've been trying to work my way through their Avenger for a while now, and it's a chore. Great music though!
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
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.
It was all a toku performance and they closed down the sound stages while also rebooting humanity.
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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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The whole OST is incredible, and the BR set was a very easy purchase for me. It's a gorgeous film on every level.
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.
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.)
So maybe someone in Shueisha learned the right thing even if the main magazine's editorial staff didn't
and tbf Linkin Park did have a Lawyer Friendly totally-not-Gundam X on the cover of Reanimation around that time