Has anyone watched this animo on Netflix called Record of Ragnarok?
I only checked out some clips to see if it was well animated since it's basically just "what if Warriors Orochi, but without ANY story whatsoever," and it was... not, to put it mildly. That's the extent of my knowledge of it though. Very, very terrible fight animation in a fighting show.
Has anyone watched this animo on Netflix called Record of Ragnarok?
I only checked out some clips to see if it was well animated since it's basically just "what if Warriors Orochi, but without ANY story whatsoever," and it was... not, to put it mildly. That's the extent of my knowledge of it though. Very, very terrible fight animation in a fighting show.
If you heard it's got no story whatsoever then damn Netflix fucked it up badly.
Records of Ragnarok manga has the story as being the gods have decided it's time to pull the plug on humanity, so one of the Valkyries uses an old bylaw that lets humanity choose champions and fight the gods in one on one battles to the death to avoid extinction. This results in matchups like Sasaki Koujirou vs Poseidon, Adam vs Zeus, and Jack the Ripper vs Heracles. Each of the fights is interspersed with some history on the combatants, the myths and legends of the gods and the lives of the humans. In fact it's those character bits that give weight to the combatants and their fight.
I think the problem I heard with this adaptation is it cuts all of the story parts the manga version has, but I haven't watched it and might be thinking of a different fighty show
Anzekay on
0
WearingGlassesOf the friendly neighborhood varietyRegistered Userregular
edited April 23
How could they mess up the fighting, that's basically the main draw of the whole series! A giant toy box of famous gods and men where the author just bashes them together!
After a bit you get his origin story in which he is a smaller angry young man. Then he grows up to be a less angry full grown man. Then he becomes the very very angry big man of the present.
This is happening too often. Anime makes money hand over fist now - give these shows the budget and time to avoid this shit already!
Doesn't anime actually make negative money, because they have to pay the TV stations to air it? Shows are just advertisements for the manga, merch and movies.
This is happening too often. Anime makes money hand over fist now - give these shows the budget and time to avoid this shit already!
Doesn't anime actually make negative money, because they have to pay the TV stations to air it? Shows are just advertisements for the manga, merch and movies.
If anime made negative money you wouldn’t have Netflix pushing hard into it and Sony purchasing crunchyroll for a billion dollars.
CREATING anime makes negative money, and relies on massive exploitation. Grabbing the rights and reselling it to a global market is quite profitable, and last I saw, represented something like half the revenue of the entire anime industry in recent years. It's your standard Walmart-esque racket.
That said, it's also WAAAAAAAYYYY the fuck cheaper to make animated shows. Even high budget studios/shows like PA Works are only about a $2 million per season production cost. You could have made half a dozen 13 episode series for the same budget that a single episode of the last season of Game of Thrones had. It's largely a speculation market, same as for Japan. 95% will be unprofitable aside from the advertising, but for the one that hits gold? Rolling in the dough.
According to Masamune Sakaki, a CG creator in the anime industry, an average 13-episode anime season costs around 250 million yen (or $2 million). He also made it clear that most anime can't recoup this expense, and the industry rests on the windfall of a few big hits. In a July interview, Takayuki Nagatani, producer of Shirobako (itself an anime about anime production), claimed that his show cost 500 million yen (or $4 million) for 24 episodes. In order to make it sell, he had to "advertise it, plan events, and make merchandise." Shinji Takamatsu, a veteran animator, cited a figure of 150 to 200 million yen ($1.2 to $1.6 million). "Expecting to make that up through disc sales alone is a hopeless business model, but that's how almost all late night anime are," he writes.
Honestly, it's not striking me as funny as I would have expected (on the 5th manga volume). Like, I don't think it nails punchlines very hard and it's also too obvious what the joke will end up being from the first beat of a particular story. I'm comparing it to stuff like Cromartie High School and Spy X Family, and I like those a lot better. Not trying to be a bummer about this, I really did expect it to be a fave just from the premise.
Oh I know absolutely nothing about the Mangas I'm just watching the Netflix adaptation.
The animation style is initially kinda weird but I very quickly grew to enjoy it. It just really works with this particular show for some reason.
It's very wholesome and low key despite the absurdity of it.
I don't think i'm ever not going to be sad about miura's passing, but with a few weeks to think about it, i am strangely content with where guts ended up. it was likely a minor respite along the way before everyone got thrown back into the shit, but at least there was some closure and the possibility of a peaceful future
definitely wish we could have seen a bit more of where the supporting cast's stories were going, that's the part i feel less confident in projecting an ending for.
This is happening too often. Anime makes money hand over fist now - give these shows the budget and time to avoid this shit already!
Doesn't anime actually make negative money, because they have to pay the TV stations to air it? Shows are just advertisements for the manga, merch and movies.
If anime made negative money you wouldn’t have Netflix pushing hard into it and Sony purchasing crunchyroll for a billion dollars.
CREATING anime makes negative money, and relies on massive exploitation. Grabbing the rights and reselling it to a global market is quite profitable, and last I saw, represented something like half the revenue of the entire anime industry in recent years. It's your standard Walmart-esque racket.
That said, it's also WAAAAAAAYYYY the fuck cheaper to make animated shows. Even high budget studios/shows like PA Works are only about a $2 million per season production cost. You could have made half a dozen 13 episode series for the same budget that a single episode of the last season of Game of Thrones had. It's largely a speculation market, same as for Japan. 95% will be unprofitable aside from the advertising, but for the one that hits gold? Rolling in the dough.
According to Masamune Sakaki, a CG creator in the anime industry, an average 13-episode anime season costs around 250 million yen (or $2 million). He also made it clear that most anime can't recoup this expense, and the industry rests on the windfall of a few big hits. In a July interview, Takayuki Nagatani, producer of Shirobako (itself an anime about anime production), claimed that his show cost 500 million yen (or $4 million) for 24 episodes. In order to make it sell, he had to "advertise it, plan events, and make merchandise." Shinji Takamatsu, a veteran animator, cited a figure of 150 to 200 million yen ($1.2 to $1.6 million). "Expecting to make that up through disc sales alone is a hopeless business model, but that's how almost all late night anime are," he writes.
Doesn't streaming enters anywhere on this conversation? Like, Crunchyroll was founded 15 years ago, and the streaming market only got bigger, with things like Netflix Japan picking up these last few years.
This is happening too often. Anime makes money hand over fist now - give these shows the budget and time to avoid this shit already!
Doesn't anime actually make negative money, because they have to pay the TV stations to air it? Shows are just advertisements for the manga, merch and movies.
If anime made negative money you wouldn’t have Netflix pushing hard into it and Sony purchasing crunchyroll for a billion dollars.
CREATING anime makes negative money, and relies on massive exploitation. Grabbing the rights and reselling it to a global market is quite profitable, and last I saw, represented something like half the revenue of the entire anime industry in recent years. It's your standard Walmart-esque racket.
That said, it's also WAAAAAAAYYYY the fuck cheaper to make animated shows. Even high budget studios/shows like PA Works are only about a $2 million per season production cost. You could have made half a dozen 13 episode series for the same budget that a single episode of the last season of Game of Thrones had. It's largely a speculation market, same as for Japan. 95% will be unprofitable aside from the advertising, but for the one that hits gold? Rolling in the dough.
According to Masamune Sakaki, a CG creator in the anime industry, an average 13-episode anime season costs around 250 million yen (or $2 million). He also made it clear that most anime can't recoup this expense, and the industry rests on the windfall of a few big hits. In a July interview, Takayuki Nagatani, producer of Shirobako (itself an anime about anime production), claimed that his show cost 500 million yen (or $4 million) for 24 episodes. In order to make it sell, he had to "advertise it, plan events, and make merchandise." Shinji Takamatsu, a veteran animator, cited a figure of 150 to 200 million yen ($1.2 to $1.6 million). "Expecting to make that up through disc sales alone is a hopeless business model, but that's how almost all late night anime are," he writes.
Doesn't streaming enters anywhere on this conversation? Like, Crunchyroll was founded 15 years ago, and the streaming market only got bigger, with things like Netflix Japan picking up these last few years.
Streaming has exploded (just in general) the last few years, but it also started from being a tiny, niche thing. 2021 is probably going to be the first year that all global overseas EVERYTHING manages to surpass domestic revenue, although who knows with covid still going hot. Domestic streaming is only about the same as merchandise, and a fifth of "pachinko." https://aja.gr.jp/download/anime-industry-report-2020-summary?wpdmdl=1691&refresh=60d516de5e41f1624577758
My experience with Japanese business culture (game localization, not anime/manga) is that they are deeply, deeply distrustful of dealing with people outside Japan and see translation as encouraging piracy. I'm sure attitudes are shifting, but I would assume that the production companies are mainly the ones pushing overseas stuff and getting all the money from it.
This is happening too often. Anime makes money hand over fist now - give these shows the budget and time to avoid this shit already!
Doesn't anime actually make negative money, because they have to pay the TV stations to air it? Shows are just advertisements for the manga, merch and movies.
If anime made negative money you wouldn’t have Netflix pushing hard into it and Sony purchasing crunchyroll for a billion dollars.
CREATING anime makes negative money, and relies on massive exploitation. Grabbing the rights and reselling it to a global market is quite profitable, and last I saw, represented something like half the revenue of the entire anime industry in recent years. It's your standard Walmart-esque racket.
That said, it's also WAAAAAAAYYYY the fuck cheaper to make animated shows. Even high budget studios/shows like PA Works are only about a $2 million per season production cost. You could have made half a dozen 13 episode series for the same budget that a single episode of the last season of Game of Thrones had. It's largely a speculation market, same as for Japan. 95% will be unprofitable aside from the advertising, but for the one that hits gold? Rolling in the dough.
According to Masamune Sakaki, a CG creator in the anime industry, an average 13-episode anime season costs around 250 million yen (or $2 million). He also made it clear that most anime can't recoup this expense, and the industry rests on the windfall of a few big hits. In a July interview, Takayuki Nagatani, producer of Shirobako (itself an anime about anime production), claimed that his show cost 500 million yen (or $4 million) for 24 episodes. In order to make it sell, he had to "advertise it, plan events, and make merchandise." Shinji Takamatsu, a veteran animator, cited a figure of 150 to 200 million yen ($1.2 to $1.6 million). "Expecting to make that up through disc sales alone is a hopeless business model, but that's how almost all late night anime are," he writes.
Doesn't streaming enters anywhere on this conversation? Like, Crunchyroll was founded 15 years ago, and the streaming market only got bigger, with things like Netflix Japan picking up these last few years.
Streaming has exploded (just in general) the last few years, but it also started from being a tiny, niche thing. 2021 is probably going to be the first year that all global overseas EVERYTHING manages to surpass domestic revenue, although who knows with covid still going hot. Domestic streaming is only about the same as merchandise, and a fifth of "pachinko." https://aja.gr.jp/download/anime-industry-report-2020-summary?wpdmdl=1691&refresh=60d516de5e41f1624577758
My experience with Japanese business culture (game localization, not anime/manga) is that they are deeply, deeply distrustful of dealing with people outside Japan and see translation as encouraging piracy. I'm sure attitudes are shifting, but I would assume that the production companies are mainly the ones pushing overseas stuff and getting all the money from it.
No, what I mean, there's Japanese streaming services already, besides Netflix Japan. Like, Redo of Healer made headlines for topping one of them (sigh). So, the old "but disc sales" is just looking more outdated each day.
My hard copy of the new (finally!) Haruhi novel, The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya finally came in today. It's kind of nuts that this series is finally continuing, I hope the author has it in him to keep going and that this just wasn't a strange one off (if you're unaware, the plotline never completed, the novels just went on hiatus for NINE years). In the very end, there's a special afterword about his memories with KyoAni, that was a sucker punch I did not see coming. I also appreciate that this one coming out led to a reissue of the entire series, so I was finally able to get a copy of the one that was impossibly pricy due to being out of print (Dissociation).
Sorry, I'm not following. By the above (report in March 2021), streaming was a fairly small piece of the overall revenue for the industry, only 68.5 billion yen revenue total, compared to eg 320 billion yen for pachinko. It looks to me like domestic streaming is cannibalizing DVD sales, as one's going up as the other's dropping in roughly similar amounts, but that's just eyeballing with no rigorous analysis. Not sure what you mean by "but disc sales." Reference to the Manabi Line schtick? But even that was in the low thousands and more a metric with high correlation to general popularity and other stuff than meant as a straight line to revenue.
MILLION TAG, a new "battle audition" show for discovering "the next star manga creator," on Friday. The eight-episode program will debut on the official YouTube channel for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine next Friday, July 2 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 a.m. EDT).
The winning manga creator will receive a prize of 5 million yen (about US$45,000), the opportunity to serialize their manga on Shonen Jump+, a compiled book volume of that manga, and an anime adaptation of the manga.
silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
edited April 23
One of the tasks/challenges/games/whatever should be drawing manga for 7 days straight without sleeping, to prepare the contestants for their new career.
Manga Mogura RE @MangaMoguraRE
Junji Ito created a summary manga for black & white horror movie "The Lighthouse" starring Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe that will be distributed in japanese cinemas to promote its theatrical release in Japan on July 9
Manga Mogura RE @MangaMoguraRE
Junji Ito created a summary manga for black & white horror movie "The Lighthouse" starring Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe that will be distributed in japanese cinemas to promote its theatrical release in Japan on July 9
Really excited for the finales of both MegaloBox 2 and OddTaxi, they've both been right up my alley and MB2 is an active improvement on the first season IMO
Depending on how slow next season is I might give Vivy, To Your Eternity, or 86 another shot
Started watching Demon Slayer, just finished episode 16. So far Zenitsu might be the deadliest character, in that he’s very close to killing the whole show!
Yeah... he's a big oof. He does get a couple good scenes, but...
On a related note, the movie's up on Funimation for streaming, so I watched that. It has minimal Zenitsu, and is good.
Posts
I only checked out some clips to see if it was well animated since it's basically just "what if Warriors Orochi, but without ANY story whatsoever," and it was... not, to put it mildly. That's the extent of my knowledge of it though. Very, very terrible fight animation in a fighting show.
If you heard it's got no story whatsoever then damn Netflix fucked it up badly.
Records of Ragnarok manga has the story as being the gods have decided it's time to pull the plug on humanity, so one of the Valkyries uses an old bylaw that lets humanity choose champions and fight the gods in one on one battles to the death to avoid extinction. This results in matchups like Sasaki Koujirou vs Poseidon, Adam vs Zeus, and Jack the Ripper vs Heracles. Each of the fights is interspersed with some history on the combatants, the myths and legends of the gods and the lives of the humans. In fact it's those character bits that give weight to the combatants and their fight.
But what really makes it interesting is sometimes he's not.
Although I don't know if its possible to do that... those faces aren't even trying.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
I'm real glad I bought all the books, as I was looking forward to seeing all the cliffhangers resolved.
E: Spider is a Crunchyroll anime, so does that mean they're financing it?
Doesn't anime actually make negative money, because they have to pay the TV stations to air it? Shows are just advertisements for the manga, merch and movies.
...uh....
(Massive Spoilers)
The End.
CREATING anime makes negative money, and relies on massive exploitation. Grabbing the rights and reselling it to a global market is quite profitable, and last I saw, represented something like half the revenue of the entire anime industry in recent years. It's your standard Walmart-esque racket.
That said, it's also WAAAAAAAYYYY the fuck cheaper to make animated shows. Even high budget studios/shows like PA Works are only about a $2 million per season production cost. You could have made half a dozen 13 episode series for the same budget that a single episode of the last season of Game of Thrones had. It's largely a speculation market, same as for Japan. 95% will be unprofitable aside from the advertising, but for the one that hits gold? Rolling in the dough.
Oh I know absolutely nothing about the Mangas I'm just watching the Netflix adaptation.
The animation style is initially kinda weird but I very quickly grew to enjoy it. It just really works with this particular show for some reason.
It's very wholesome and low key despite the absurdity of it.
definitely wish we could have seen a bit more of where the supporting cast's stories were going, that's the part i feel less confident in projecting an ending for.
Doesn't streaming enters anywhere on this conversation? Like, Crunchyroll was founded 15 years ago, and the streaming market only got bigger, with things like Netflix Japan picking up these last few years.
Streaming has exploded (just in general) the last few years, but it also started from being a tiny, niche thing. 2021 is probably going to be the first year that all global overseas EVERYTHING manages to surpass domestic revenue, although who knows with covid still going hot. Domestic streaming is only about the same as merchandise, and a fifth of "pachinko."
https://aja.gr.jp/download/anime-industry-report-2020-summary?wpdmdl=1691&refresh=60d516de5e41f1624577758
My experience with Japanese business culture (game localization, not anime/manga) is that they are deeply, deeply distrustful of dealing with people outside Japan and see translation as encouraging piracy. I'm sure attitudes are shifting, but I would assume that the production companies are mainly the ones pushing overseas stuff and getting all the money from it.
No, what I mean, there's Japanese streaming services already, besides Netflix Japan. Like, Redo of Healer made headlines for topping one of them (sigh). So, the old "but disc sales" is just looking more outdated each day.
MILLION TAG, a new "battle audition" show for discovering "the next star manga creator," on Friday. The eight-episode program will debut on the official YouTube channel for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine next Friday, July 2 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 a.m. EDT).
The winning manga creator will receive a prize of 5 million yen (about US$45,000), the opportunity to serialize their manga on Shonen Jump+, a compiled book volume of that manga, and an anime adaptation of the manga.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
See that just makes me imagine them trying to do car things, and then Char just drops in with Sazabi. It's a very short movie as a result!
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/TheZombiePenguin
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/thezombiepenguin/
Switch: 0293 6817 9891
The Tester, you say
Phrasing!
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Steam: YOU FACE JARAXXUS| Twitch.tv: CainLoveless
Some of the contestants even got to do uncredited work for Penny Arcade!
God, I really hope the "HARK, TRITON" rant is illustrated in this.
Steam ID XBL: JohnnyChopsocky PSN:Stud_Beefpile WiiU:JohnnyChopsocky
Depending on how slow next season is I might give Vivy, To Your Eternity, or 86 another shot
Yeah... he's a big oof. He does get a couple good scenes, but...
On a related note, the movie's up on Funimation for streaming, so I watched that. It has minimal Zenitsu, and is good.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy