Shocker. You mean to say that the market with more people is bigger?
This will stay the same it always goes with Japanese companies. They make products exclusively for the Japanese market, and any sales they get outside of Japan are just a financial bonus.
If something performs really well in Japan but badly everywhere else they keep making it and just don’t distribute globally. If something performs really well globally but badly in Japan? Cancelled.
I tried watching Fate Stay Night but never made it past episode 1. I dont remember why.
I played Fate Extra on the PSP via PPSSPP, and I actually enjoyed the game but I havent been able to finish it yet. I heard somewhere it is getting a remake, so I am curious to see how that turns out.
Outside of this, I have very minimal knowledge of Fate as a series. All I know is that Fate started originally as an eroge/visual novel, the series is made by Type Moon, and that the series features characters named after real historical figures that are usually women (in other words, even if a real historical figure is a man, in the Fate series there is a really high probability that they will be a woman). Also something about real names needing to stay secret so they use really basic code names like “Saber,” “Archer,” “Caster,” etc.
I hate this. Not because of the product itself, but because it looks like the character is in a jar. And the internet has thoroughly ruined jars.
I am pretty sure there is only one.
I havent seen this anime, but people complaining about fanservice in anime is like moving into a house next to an airport/ train station/ racetrack and then complaining about the noise.
This sure is happening a lot lately. “Production issues…” Is it possible to be any more vague?
Do people on Lemmy only watch Frieren and Dungeon Meshi? Lol
Yeah, it was nice to see him mention it, but to say that elves “took over” isn’t exactly true. It has always been like this. The amount of popular elf characters in anime now is not really much different than it was 30-40 years ago.
A bit of clickbait in the title, IMO.
Elves have been my favorite long before Frieren ever existed. Its crazy to think that elves weren’t prominent before Frieren came along, and honestly makes me think this person maybe hasn’t seen a lot of older anime or only watches more recent stuff. Even in old Japanese adventure games elves were a pretty common sight.
A Girl Who Chants Love At the Bound of This World: YU-NO, Record of Lodoss War, Those Who Hunt Elves, etc. I mean heck, there was even a Japanese game studio that called themselves “elf.” (Great games BTW, some tasteless content not withstanding).
As I am sure you guessed, their origin, much like nearly everything relating to RPGs and fantasy settings in Japanese media, cones from Wizardry. It always comes back to Wizardry.
Was episode 12 going to close out the season? I haven’t been up on Danmachi after season 2. I wonder why they couldn’t wrap up 12 if it was going to be the seasons last episode.
When I said that I really meant with regards to the anime studio getting money from the viewer, not with the quality of the anime itself. But you are correct, anime is having a big problem with bad localization lately.
I mean, some subscription services do pay the IP owners, but many times it is at a reduced rate. The best thing that you can do to support your favorite studios is buy bluray releases and merch direct from the studio, or as direct as possible.
Pirating doesn’t directly pay studios, but if you pirate and then buy bluray/merch, the studio is definitely getting more of your money than if you were paying for a subscription service.
IDK who this expert is, but “core anime fans” are absolutely not watching anime on Netflix or other “mainstream” streaming sites.
They’re pirating. We all are. Because pirating is literally the same as watching through those other sites, except it doesnt cost us money.
I mean, it is necessary to show the viewer what kind of world it is, if it is dangerous, etc. It can build up both an empathy for the main character/ characters in the world as well as give a motivation to the main character that doesnt require too much explanation. That kind of start is a rare one, but it can work.
Goblin Slayer, for example, does this to great effect. The first episode is hard to watch, intentionally so, but it easily and quickly builds the basis for the main character doing what he does. It explains to the viewer in no uncertain terms how dangerous such a weak appearing monster is, and why they are a threat. It also shows why the threat is ignored by more prestigious adventurers. And the rest of the anime carries the same dark, gritty tone. I actually quite liked Goblin Slayer.
I just think that Skeleton Knight didn’t really need it because, unlike Goblin Slayer, the entire rest of the show does not match that tone. A lot of people who were put off by Goblin Slayers first episode probably wouldnt have been able to handle the rest of the anime, but with Skeleton Knight I think they might have scared away a large portion of viewers that might have otherwise liked the anime.
Except for the very beginning of episode 1. There is no reason they had to show as much as they did and make it that uncomfortable, literally none of the rest of the show ever hit that tone again. As long as they dont repeat that I think it’ll be perfect.
Anno co-writing Gundam? I don’t know what to think of this.
He came up with Evangelion because he was bored with anime at the time being to homogeneous, Gundam specifically. I wonder why he took this job, being the perfectionist he is, knowing he would not have total control like he did on Eva?
EDIT: A boy pilot named Shuji - This is satire, right?
I was part of the class action lawsuit against Crunchyroll.
Sony can bite rocks. Sony can bite rocks after losing all their teeth, and then step on a 1x1 LEGO brick.
Nice try, FBI man… Nice try…
Rap was extremely popular in Asian countries, especially Japan and South Korea, in the early 2000s. I don’t know if it has remained as popular as back then though.