/a/ - Animu & Mango

It's hard not to compare it to the complete lack of originality we now have in western media, but I think I have a bit more faith in Japan. I want to believe that these are just quick cashgrabs pandering to nostalgia that will be used to fund more adaptations and original shows. Then again that line of reasoning doesn't make sense from a business point of view, and that's why the west is the way it is now.

I just hope these shows make no money so nobody gets any funny ideas about constant remakes and spinoffs being the future. We already have the long-running shounenshit series so we don't need any more soulless, creatively bankrupt anime.

>>797351

I think this is a sign that they're running out of idea for volume. For instance, you're starting to get more A-tier gems recently, but the rest is just unwatchable.

Also, the Ecchi-harem genre (a huge volume maker and cashcow) is now dead, and our current Isekai era is failing to create memorable shows.

We're maybe in a transition phase now, where animes will enter in another era, a more artistic one (the recent A-tiers were all fresh themes and the remakes are a sign that studios don't want to make isekai or another generic crap, like bike animes). But so far, the breakthrough didn't happen, as no great titles shifted the zeitgeist.

Examples of such shifter titles (may or not be good):

The Ecchi-harem/romance era

>Lucky Star

>Toradora

>Haruhi

>To Love-Ru

The Isekai era

>Sword Art Online

>Gate

>Konosuba

>Youjo Senki

The ??? New era experiments

>Space Dandy

>Made in Abyss

>Your name

Help me out here /a/nons.

>>797366

>Ecchi-harem/romance.

>Lucky Star.

>Haruhi.

Dude, what?

>>797366

I find it strange that you consider Lucky Star an ecchi harem, but not Sword Art Online.

Further, I find your idea of "experiments" quite odd and I have no idea what kind of new era would have begun with a manga adaptation like Made in Abyss.

>the remakes are a sign that studios don't want to make isekai or another generic crap, like bike animes

All this ignorance and prejudice. I can only hope that's a joke post.

>>797367

They shifted the stuff more to the development of girls, moe and romance.

>>797371

>Lucky Star ecchi harem

It's part of what launched the era, but it by itself is not one.

>Prejudice

Do you like bike animes? The concern with isekai is just that many are generic and aren't cashcows like the ecchi harem were.

>Made in Abyss

It's cinematic.

>>797372

>They shifted the stuff more to the development of girls, moe and romance.

If anything, Lucky Star gave rise to high school moe-SoLs, which are not the same as ecchi-harems. Far from it.

>>797373

>Do you like bike animes?

Do you somehow think that there are dozens of bike anime?

>The concern with isekai is just that many are generic

So like most anime.

>aren't cashcows

Like most anime

>like the ecchi harem were

Most of them were not. Jesus Christ.

>It's cinematic.

Goddamnit.

Even IF that were something new that MIA had introduced to anime, it would be impossible for it to usher in a new era, because quality is not something that anime studios can just reproduce. Shinbo/SHAFT "cinematics" is something that could theoretically be reproduced (if anybody wanted), because that's just an aesthetic.

>>797366

>Also, the Ecchi-harem genre (a huge volume maker and cashcow) is now dead,

The ecchi-harem genre was never a big cash cow or as big as many in West think.

>The Ecchi-harem/romance era

I wouldn't put Lucky Star into this category.

Lucky Star was part of the second wave of CGDCT/moe anime, and is partially responsible for the CGDCT/moe boom we have in the 2010s.

>I think this is a sign that they're running out of idea for volume

I would say this is more of a sign that publishers run out of suitable source materials. Late Night anime production is higher than ever before and not every source material is seen as suitable/big enough for an anime adaptation.

Another big development in the recent years was the shift from VN to LN.

There are fewer VN adaptations then in the mid 2000s, especially male oriented VN adaptations.

I'm glad there's more basilisk, the concept of ugly ninja dudes with weird powers is unique enough now that I'm more forgiving of the occasional slideshow. Though this one seems to be a bit more cutesy than the first one, which is fine and I guess is more appealing to horny teenagers.

>>797351

Good shit.

Not a single good post so far. One retard said something, more retards replied.

Oh well.

The remakes are for easy cash and to hook the new generation in the old stuff.

That's it, if it's a good thing or not, I don't know.

>>797351

Its a terrible idea unless its Fist of the North Star or Saint Seiya, which never used the best of Toei's animation. Its much like how the west keeps reviving old shit and ruining it by trying to "improve" it by using today's standards which are retarded. However the japanese reboots are not nearly as bad as western ones because they actually try and stay faithful to the source material, but fall short in terms of visuals, such as animation or censorship. Still better than western reboots/revivals, but still something unneeded. Sure it introduces old franchise to newer generations, but the better thing to do is to just re-air those classics, much like westerners did by re-airing older animes and pretending they were new, which proved highly successful.

>>797351

I wish they could make a remake of Air. I know you read our threads kyoani staff.

>>797516

Well look on the brightside, Full Metal Panic already ended so they have no excuse if they decide to cock everything up.

From a companie's perspective it's understandable. Going for an established franchise people like is more save than attempting something new.

As long they a worthy successors, I'm okay with them. I even enjoyed dragonball super to a certain extend, so they can go for it

>>797351

I think it's bad because nowdays studios do a shit job at animating and to make shit even worse they are trying to fit most of shit into 25 episodes, even those whose original length was 100+ ep

Just look at how shit the basilisk sequel and houshin engi are, they're so bad at ep3 they were sure drop material and just to make sure i watched till ep 6 of both, and shit just got worse and worse.

Right now remaking is a mistake.

>>797646

I wasn't sufficiently clear in my statement. Sorry.

>>797351

I finished LOTGH few days ago, watched the trailer for the recap just now.

The characters look bland and the CGI for the ships is exaggerated.

Depending on how they keep the storyline it will be shit or just a blander recap.

>>797351

I do not mind reboots that are self-contained, where they are their own stories that just happen to take place in the same world as the original. But I usually despise reboots or continuations that are so often tacked onto the original series while never understanding why anyone watched the original in the first place. LotGH in your pic OP will be a perfect example of why bringing back an old franchise is a bad thing.