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9 months agoI haven’t heard anything about this particular monetization, but I recent read the Rick and Morty manga vol 1 (just after release, was a gift), and it was just a jolly Rick and Morty take on attack on titan. It was fun to see how it played out but it was a blatant ripoff.
But the art quality for manga wasn’t there. It was so hard to figure out visually what was going on, and a lot of it looked like it was cut off to mimic the “cheap mass produced publishing”, but it felt like too much was cut, it all felt so very intentional, and wasn’t very good as a result.
I don’t have super high hopes for the anime.
You are assuming it’s being made with the same market forces, and thus limitations, as “real” anime.
If they produced this on a weekly schedule, with artists who were relentlessly working on and being drastically underpaid for multiple projects (often under contract), sure, that’s a valid criticism.
But the market for anime is weird and very unpleasant, and, well, that’s simply not the reality here… (I mean we aren’t far off, but the conditions for actual anime artists are pretty fucking bad)
Instead, this franchise seems to have several teams working on getting every opportunity they can out of it. They have -so many- comics, so much merchandise, and the actual animated stuff I guess, and people animating non-“cannon” stuff like the animated court case (which is hilarious and I recommend watching - it’s apparently real court minutes…) and whatever else they can come up with like detailing their merchandizing plan in a very meta way (I don’t know where to find a copy of the actual comic to link so this will have to do, I’m sorry)