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4 Panel Comic

Panel 1: an Apple Tree saying “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”

Panel 2: an Apple saying “Anime is trash”

Panel 3: the tree winds up…

Panel 4: …and throws the apple as far as possible with a FWOoOSH

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
    331·
    17 hours ago

    A lot of it is unfortunately, you can only tolerate the repetitive cringey trope filled teenage focused shows for so long, and it seems those are most of the ones getting made, seinen and Josie anime seem to be much fewer, I’m kind done watching teen characters getting objectified and getting into battles that they win through the power of friendship.

    • nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish
      10·
      7 hours ago

      Miyazaki was right when he complained that the only people getting in to the anime industry were people who only consumed anime/manga. The tropes got out of control.

    • brsrklf@jlai.lu
      24·
      12 hours ago

      You know, power of friendship is boring when it’s done stupidly and it becomes the only answer to every problem…

      but to me the worst kind of shounen degeneracy is when they stop caring about the human aspects at all. And instead they just do endless power level fights where heroes keep winning by ass-pulling new strength from nowhere.

      I’ve abandoned several series that I thought started well over that.

      • grue@lemmy.world
        6·
        7 hours ago

        IMO the only show that does “the power of friendship” well is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and that’s because friendship is a literal magical superweapon being developed by the State in order to achieve geopolitical domination.

      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 hours ago

        Yup just endless slide shows of character XYZ screams and does power blast repeated 10 times and then the episode is over

    • adjectivenoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      15 hours ago

      A lot of all entertainment media is garbage. Maybe anime has a lower barrier to entry, so the signal to noise ratio is worse, but then again, the big movie studios are so risk averse that they mostly pump out boring, focus-group-tested sequels and reboots. Wait maybe there’s a barrier-to-entry vs financial-risk sweet spot that produces the greatest share of good stuff? Hmmm…

      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
        5·
        7 hours ago

        What makes you think animation has low barrier to entry lol, it takes a large team of skilled artists to make, most of whom are underpaid and overworked, and it takes time to hone these skills. The reason most media is garbage is that studios want to make low cost low risk content, and they want to make lots off it in the hopes that if even one or two become viral hits then they can coast on the profit from that while taking losses on the others, instead of taking big bets on an anime that is beyond the cliched norms and that might cost more time and money to make.

        • adjectivenoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 hours ago

          A lot of the traditional anime tropes exist explicitly to lower the cost of production. The artists may be skilled, but there’s a reason you see a lot of still frames where only the character’s mouth moves and stuff like that. It was necessary in the 90’s. Now it’s what you expect from the genre.

          • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
            3·
            4 hours ago

            When I say tropes I mean storytelling tropes not animation techniques, which I know a bunch of them are for cost and time saving purposes

        • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Exactly; the issue is that writing and animating are separate concerns.

          So if an anime studio wants to pump out 30 Isekai, they NEED 30 animators working 24/7. But a genius writer? Meh, that’s optional.

          So he’s right that writing is low barrier - and then it sucks when I see fantastic indie animation work on YouTube and think “I almost think I could’ve written and VA’d this better by myself”.