Fighting Against the Decline of the Anime Industry

>>116662670
>the number of [Japanese] animators is steadily decreasing
I don't know how that's even possible when 90% of the credits are filled with Korean names.

He is right but he made rebuild so fuck him.

>>116662670
Rebuild is terrible...

But at leas Anno gives a shit about the industry. He seems to have had a change of heart, wants to save it.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

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1997:
Anime director and writer Yasuhiro Imagawa sees a dead end looming in front of the world of anime. Echoing critics of a lot of popular television in America, he sees too much of the same thing being repeated in different shows. Once a show or genre becomes popular, it gets copied to the point that it becomes difficult to tell one show from another; only the names seem different. In terms of technique this has improved things, as each show learns from the previous ones. But Mr. Imagawa sees this as only superficial growth, not the internal growth of stories and themes needed to sustain the art form. A flashy character design and good drawings can't make up for a bad story. As a result, he no longer watches much TV anime.

He spends much more of his time watching American and European dramas cinema which he feels has depth and substance. He agrees that this repetition in anime is leading to a narrowing of Japanese TV audiences' tastes. And like a food bias, this leads to a vicious cycle. Without exposure to other types of shows, audiences are less likely to "brave them" and give them a fair shot. Without confidence in a potential audience, producers are unlikely to make these "risky" shows. So audiences are not exposed to them, and and the cycle continues.

2006:
Q) The animation industry in Japan seems to be stagnant while in China and Korea, there looks to be a comparative amount of growth. What are your thoughts regarding the situation?
A) I concur. The biggest reason I feel so far is the Japanese industry has stopped nurturing their own talents.

2011:
"My great teacher, Tomino, the creator of Gundam, taught me something very important. if you continue to make a copy of a copy of a copy, eventually the image degrades to nothing. Anime has become almost disposable, like a seasonal product. It can hurt seeing something you created selling used for a few yen on Amazon. Us creators should strive to make anime that people will hold onto and love for years."

>>116662670
>/Interview-with-Hideaki-Anno
Stopped reading there

That fag is the one that killed anime

>>116663321
/thread

>>116662670
And still he's cashgrabbing with the rebuilds.

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>>116663321

>>116663777
He made 25, 26, EoE, and the Rebuild series. What a fucking hack!

>butthurt dinosaur hack
>relevant

ayy

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>>116663321

>>116665030
He has the nerve to complain about moeshit in anime when he's been selling Asuka body pillows for 20 years

>>116662933
The Japanese still hold a good amount of pride in their ANIMATORS. Backgrounds and the like are quite often done by Koreans, but it is still very rare to see Korean names under the 原画 tag.

>>116662933
Honestly, you'd have to dig pretty deep to find a cartoon from any nation that doesn't have at least one Chong Hwong Gook in the credits.

>>116665421
ussr\ex-ussr cartoons.

>>116665182
>Student Questioner: What genres of anime do you dislike?

>Anno: Works that are specifically moe, and horror. I am no good with horror, or with haunted houses.

>You said you dislike moe, but isn't Asuka moe?

>Anno: When I did the TV series, there was as yet no such thing as moe. I like Sailor Moon as well.

>>116665531
Exactly.

>>116665531
That's pretty fucking deep.

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>>116665531
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqdiEUp6s4E

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Moe killed the industry.

>>116665575
>but isn't Asuka moe
Funny he asked that, because last i checked Rei is typically blamed for moe.

>>116665182
Asuka (and all Eva females) are special in a sense that all her merchandise is bought by otaku faggots who's love towards her is based on their shitty headcanon and not an actual character. Nobody has ever been moe fodder in old Evas.

>>116665787
Only newfags think that.

If anything killed the industry, it was light novel adaptations.

Too fucking many of them.

>>116663321
I don't get it.

>>116663546
>/a/utist fags who love unlimited moeshit work on /a/ are degenerate

i think he talking about us, anons

How many more years are we going to have to listen to people saying that anime is dead, dieing and declining?

If my generation is the only one watching anime, I dont care if anime dies with me.

Japs population is declining. It makes sense.

>>116662670
Cool thanks. Not like we've already seen this.

>>116665945
>How many more years

Another hundred or so.

>>116665872
I sure hate threads for anime that are based on LNs. They are not fun.

>>116665945
Until Japan's population stops dying and declining.

>>116665997
Whether the threads are fun or not is irrelevant.

The truth is that anime is healthy when it has shows that stand on their own. Some adaptations are good, but when it's nothing but adaptations anime as a medium becomes secondary to manga/LNs and thus begins to die.

>>116665872
>>116665997

Chaika is a shining example

>>116666078
What's so bad about chaika?

>>116666078
porn game adaptations like Fate and Grisaia are worse

ITT:
>The anime industry is dying because they make shows that I don't like

>>116666164
Exacly.

>>116666125
Fags that read the novels cant stop them selves from spoiling every fucking thing.

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There are less animators because they are being replaced with technology.
I don't think the number of anime made per year has ever been this high.

>>116666125
>fanservice
>moetrash
>formulaic as fuck
>nothing unique about it

>>116666230
The same can be said about your favorite shit show.

>>116666230
If I didn't read the post you quoted I would have thought you were talking about Eva.

>>116666054
Thats not whats wrong with anime. You are close but pointed in the wrong direction. The only thing wrong with anime is the over production of it.

Studios having to use any and all material they can get their hands on, such as LNs, is only an effect of that.

20 years ago, they had about 10 anime per season. Now theres 20 minimum on a bad season.

>>116666230
Yes I know that, I asked what's bad about it.

>>116666320
>Eva
>not unique

Look at this kid and laugh everyone.

>>116662670
it's because of shit like SnK and Tokyo Ghoul and faggy kids that watch this shit
japs have shit taste in anime

>>116666399
Eva is just a ripoff of Code Geass.

>>116666399
>eva
>unique

Get a load of this newfag

>>116662670
can you post the webm?

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>>116666399
What is unique about Eva?

>>116666517

>>116666129


Fucking Visual Novel shit is the true fucking poison it's maximum escapism

>>116666399
>ripoff of eureka 7
>unique

>>116662670
Can't trust anything said by the man behind the Eva Rebuilds.

does he even watch seasonal anime anymore?

>>116666631
Thats why they are so good

>>116666911
>Implying NGE wasn't shit

>>116666339
I don't think we're necessarily in disagreement.

You're concerned about market saturation and I'm concerned with a lack of originality. The two aren't separate problems.

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>>116666711
>>116666594
>>116666503
>>116666456
funny meme guys!

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>literally every anime producer and their mother says that there are not enough skilled animators left in Japan
>rampant use of CG because it's cheaper and easier and there are more people skilled in and more training resources available for 3D animation
>birthrates in decline, hikki rates up, both contributing to less people willing to become animators
>government funded programs like Anime mirai intended to try to curb this problem
>the obvious fact that everything looks like shit now

>/a/: "Nah, everything's fine!"

ayy lmao

Don't care about anime.

Manga is superior in every single way.

>>116668313
Manga has it's own problems with magazine sales dropping.

>>116668313
>reading anime storyboards

>>116666456
>Eva is just a ripoff of Code Geass.
No, but Eva is a ripoff of other earlier shows

Ideon called and so did Ultraman.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/473463284/cannon-busters-the-animated-series-pilot

The futrue of anime

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>>116668526
>animated by blackaboos

Anime has been dead.

Twenty years. Isn't that about how long Anno's been saying anime is dying?

He's our equivalent to doompaul.

>>116668526

>most of the production guys are white
>most of the characters are black

They should just ask Quentin Cuckoldtino to fund it.

>>116666631
You're poison.

>>116669695
>hating something because it's popular

You'll say that's not why you hate Tarantino but we both know the truth, hipster trash.

>>116665741
Awful subs. Though the translation would kill half the fun anywan.
t. russian

>>116668313
manga will never die just because of the format and how easy it is to now digitally create, manage and distribute
watch manga catch fire properly in us once SJW's stop being faggots about Japan and nipps decide to finally pursue over-seas markets, same with Europe

>>116668526
I'm still waiting for a from scratch crowdsourced anime series that is at least mildly successful and is not some pandering shit

>>116665575
That dodging
>>116665877
Animators don't get paid much s at all for the amount of worked that is required. So you get a bunch of jaded people who take short cuts.
It's the difference between something like space dandy and sailor Moon crystal or some shitty kids anime like pretty cure. You can tell which one the animators had fun doing and put effort in, which affects the quality.

>>116668082
Worry not Anon, the west will save anime.

>>116665827
>Rei is typically blamed for moe
Literally only on TVTropes.

>Kickstarter
>Patreon

They got decimated by streaming. They just need a new distribution and patronage model.

>>116671609
>Japanese
>ever innovating anything when it comes to business or media

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There's only one way to "save" anime

>>116671609
How much is one series anyway? I've read somewhere where one episode cost something like 100k

>creates otaku pandering shit
>complains about the state of the industry

ayy

>>116671793
the day studios start trying to appeal to western and european audiences is the day anime dies
except maybe if the French, Finnish or eastern europeans get their hands on it first

>>116671924
>one episode cost something like 100k
lol no

It's like an obligatory thing to complain about the anime industry if you're a known director.

However, Hideaki Anno has ZERO right to complain. His latest Rebuild movie gives him no right to complain about anything whatsoever regarding "decline in anime industry", since it's chock full of pandering, moe and everything commercial he claims is killing it.

Never before has a movie been so deeply influenced by otaku (or the female variant, fujoshi) than the crap he's been shitting out.

This is also his greatest hit, it's THE work that put him among the stars as far as directors in anime go.

Anno doesn't get to say shit without admitting he's also helping the thing decline.

>>116666399
Get a load of this weeb.

>>116672252
/thread

>>116672252
the amount of stupid in this post is astounding

Guys, everything I read was about the industry as an industry. Not what they make, but how there is no one working in it.

>>116672252
Anno isn't complaining about what kind of anime is made but about how it is made from a commercial point of view (studios don't take a lot of risks anymore) and how the number of animators is supposedly dropping.

>>116665030
Dude, I could make eps 25 and 26 on ms paint and windows movie maker

>>116672252
The rebuild moves do not contradict what Anno is saying.

Did you even read what you he said? Did you even glance over it? He never said 'moe is killing the industry' or 'pandering'. None of those words were used.

The problem he has with the anime industry is that the fucking studios are shrinking. The isn't a lot of new talent coming in who wants to work in animation more and more of it gets outsourced to other asian countries.

Anime is also failing to capture new audiences. It's money from oversea's sales is not significant (yes I know you watched cowboy bebop on toonami and pirated the dvds, that's pocket change). In their own country anime has a negative stigma, only a handful of mega shows (pretty cure, one piece, Eva, and a few old classics like Lupin) are considered 'normal'. Most of their money comes from the obsessed fan market which is actually a SHRINKING market. The otaku market cannot sustain the growth of the industry because otaku them self are declining in number.

The rebuild movies, whether you like them are not, are a shining example of how to save the industry. They were huge commercial ventures bringing in lots of new employees into the bussiness and the Eva franchise has a huge following from more than just the otaku.

This isn't about your fucking waifus and whether 'moe is ruining the industry' its about basic economics. No employees+shrinking customer base=bad news

Fucking retard

>>116673309
>The isn't a lot of new talent coming in who wants to work in animation more and more of it gets outsourced to other asian countries.

The talent is not coming in BECAUSE of outsourcing.
Who wants to be in a field where there are no jobs, the job market is shrinking and will continue to shrink and it will eventually even be completely replaced by 3d since it's even cheaper.

That's what pretty much killed the animation biz in the US in the last decade or so.

>>116673309
Why do the number of anime being produced a year continue to increase when the demand is supposedly falling?

I hope that it collapses. For one I'll have more time to clear my backlog, for two independent and experimental animation will skyrocket or at least have more exposure. And potentially will allow for growth in the field that you don't see when everyone is copying everyone else.

>>116673462
anime that is being produced is loq quality trash

>>116673061
>Anno isn't complaining about what kind of anime is made but about how it is made from a commercial point of view (studios don't take a lot of risks anymore)
That's what I'm also saying. ANno makes them from a commercial point of view.

>and how the number of animators is supposedly dropping.
Gee, maybe if he wasn't like everyone else paying them absolute shit. It's a bad career for people who want money, you know like literally everyone else.

>>116673595
That doesn't answer the question of why the amount is increasing. It is nonsensical to make more of something for a smaller fanbase. You would increase output to meet an increased demand for your product not to cater for falling demand.

>>116673652
>That's what I'm also saying. ANno makes them from a commercial point of view.
But he's taking risks

>>116673309
>Anime is also failing to capture new audiences
well whoopie-dee-doo, that's their own fault for not wanting to have any children

>>116673309
>The rebuild moves do not contradict what Anno is saying.
They do. If you had read what he's been saying, now and lately, it's that anime is declining due to it being made from a commercial point of view.

Which is exactly what his new Rebuild movies are. They are by far the most commercial anime products being made since I can remember pretty much. Both in advertising and post-show merchandising.

Precisely because Anno is at the fucking vanguard of the anime industry making fujoshi and otaku-pandering garbage, no new audiences are captured and everyone else is forced to follow in his footsteps because they can't compete otherwise.

The shrinking studios, the lack of animators, everything is due to Anno.

The Rebuilds are NOT saving the industry for shit, it is downright ruining it by being exactly the commercial abominations Anno is criticizing. You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about, you're spinning fairy tales about how Anno making anime brings in animators or other employees which other anime SOMEHOW DO NOT. Which is fucking bullshit.

Anno remaking his old success story and basically turning it into waifu garbage isn't helping. It's making things worse, retard.

>>116673753
>But he's taking risks
Such as? There's no fucking risk in pandering as much as he does and making it as commercial as he's done. There's no risk in sticking to a safe franchise like Evangelion that is GUARANTEED to bring in money.

Get your head out of your ass.

>>116663546
So did they ever watched anime before 1990s because there are tons of moe anime especially around 60's to early 90's?

>>116673462
Have you been watching the new anime? Have you looked at a fucking chart?
The vast majority of new anime is based off a VN, video game, or LN. These anime typically LOSE money on sales but make a profit because the studio is payed upfront by another company to advertise their book or game. In other words they are glorified commercials.

Also look at the fucking quality of shows made. It's quantity over quality. Most shows run for 13 episoides with no s2 instead of the usualy 26+ that used to be more common. Let's also not forget the massive increase in 5 minute shows.

Look at one of those sales charts posted every once awhile, anime that sells below 2k is genually something that loses money and if you pay attention you will see more than of any anime in a given season is below 2k.

Well off companies tend to produce quality over quantity. Look at kyo-ani. I don't care if you hate them but it's a fact they spend more $ on each frame than just about any other TV studio. Because of this they produce the fewest shows each year and they are almost always well above the 2k selling point, usually one of the top performers.

>>116672883
actually this very same point has always been brought up every time this kind of thread gets reposted

Crossing tangents for a minute, I do think Anno has a point, when, in particular, looking @ stuff like Sailor Moon Crystal. Given @ this point alot of the SM fandom has realized how Crystal is hardly trying, boiler plate flimsily-made material that doesn't do the source material justice or isn't on par with the previous animated adaptation, I would put the blame on the committee responsible for Crystal for not putting the resources necessary to not do injustice to one of the most world-renowned and popular franchises.

>>116673777
they're still too retarded for trying to market it over seas too
while sitting on a fucking gold mine too since fandoms across the west have shown that there are people willing to consume their shit

>>116674044
You really aren't answering the question. Only a nutcase would think 'Nobody likes potatoes anymore, quick lets keep increasing the production of potatoes!" and expect anything good to come of it. The only reason you would keep increasing production is because of increasing demand for the product.

>>116672883
>I can't rebuke his argument
>I'll call him stupid!
Excellent counter-point anon! You sure didn't reveal yourself as a butthurt amoeaba, and accidentally validate his point in the same process by showing that people who disagree can't rebuke him!

>>116673926
>With short-form animation, you have a higher level of freedom. But with longer projects, you often have to make back the cost of production. The more money something costs, the less freedom you have. We want to avoid that restriction and try to create a platform that allows people the freedom to make short-form works however they want.

Anno is talking about anime declining due to restrictions on creative freedom in the production process. He is not talking about merchandising. He is not talking about advertising.

The fact you can't even read properly enough to figure this out shows how much of a real shit for brains piece of fucking trash you are. Instead of making up some bullshit strawman, actually engage his fucking argument. Go fuck yourself you dumb cunt.

>>116674157
They're increasing production because they can't stop making anime or they'll just go under

So they keep shitting out low budget adaptations that they know will at least make their money back just so that they can stay afloat

>>116673309
Let's see, Anno is saying that "anime is declining" because it's made with too much consideration of the commercial aspect. That's fine I suppose, but you're saying that Rebuild has nothing to do with it?

WHAT? FUCKING WHAT?!

Have you even watched the fucking things? Not that you'd have to, because they are being advertised FUCKING EVERYWHERE along with copious commercial add-in products.
I guess if you actually watched them you'd see how bad it actually is.

So tell me, how does his Rebuild movies "capture new audiences" when it's only concerned about catering to fat girls fantasizing about gay couples or fat boys fantasizing about legal girls (canonically 28 years old now people!) with the body of a 14 year old again?

This is even forgetting the fucking fact that Evangelion is massively popular and literally everything labeled Evangelion sells like nothing else. Put "NERV" on something and it's a sure sell. People would love everything from NERV condoms to NERV handkerchiefs. These products already exist and they sell.

So studios are shrinking and there are less animators? Well, look at Anno go then, making just 3DCG bullshit and using existing workforces through outsourcing and hiring professionals.

Anno is the source of the problem he's complaining about nowadays.

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>>116674482
PLEASE CALM THE FUCK DOWN, JESUS CHRIST

>>116674482
Anno has commented on this from various angles before, what you cite being only the most recent.

The fact that you can't pay attention to the industry and what's going on in it, what Anno says and has done, means you're not equipped to give a single comment. Get the fuck out.

>>116674537
You are thinking about this backwards. The studios customer is not me and you it is the production committee. As long as there is demand from publishers from anime to keep getting made it keeps getting made regardless of the size of the fanbase, thus even with a declining fanbase the number of adaptations can still continue to increase as long as publishers want anime.

>>116666399
>Eva
>Unique
>When there are Patlabor, VOTOMS, MSG OVAs that did it's job better as a mecha anime

No, kid, you don't know shit about anime

>>116674482
Have you even been paying attention lately? I read that post (and yours, fuck you're mad) and I got what he means. Anno has been on the floor speaking out against decline in anime recently, and what he's talking about here is about his recently announced project, not the actual reasons behind it.

He's been on the floor talking about commercial aspects of it as a negative earlier. How about you stop being so mad, start reading up on the history of these events before you comment.

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There was no way this thread could've been anything other than shitposts. Why do so many of you even give a fuck about a declining niche industry in a foreign country?

>>116666399
Laughing at you actually. Nowadays EVA is only unique in how it's a gigantic sellout franchise.

>>116674860
>Why do so many of you even give a fuck about a declining niche industry in a foreign country?
Because I spend 90% of my free time consuming its product?

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>>116674860
miyazaki is a clever son of a bitch, he mostly draws cute girls in cute situations but somehow managed to trick everyone into thinking he's a feminist

>>116674860
Cause it's funny seeing Anno being a hypocrite about it.

>spend his years ruining his own best franchise by dumbing it down and changing it to cater to otaku/fujoshi niches
>almost does nothing else
>then goes on a tirade about the decline in anime

Hilarious. If Anno shot himself today after locking down EVA as an IP, anime would be better off.

>>116674779
>as a mecha anime
Well, 95% of mehca anime is shit, and the best Gundam story is not penned by Tomino but a Gainax guy.

>>116674906
>Nowadays EVA is only unique in how --
So basically what you're saying is that EVA isn't unique anymore because other shows copied it. Nice logic.

>>116675070
Are you retarded? Finish the sentence you faggot. Holy fuck what is wrong with you people?

>>116675036
>dumbing it down and changing it to cater to otaku/fujoshi niches
>Rebuild
>niches

http://variety.com/2012/film/news/evangelion-breaks-2012-b-o-record-in-japan-1118062378/

>>116674566
'too much consideration of the commercial aspect'
He never says that retard. Anime is supposed to make money. The issue is expanding the audience.

Eva is actually panders less than other shows. Watch 5 minutes of any ecchi or harem show if you want to proof. Besides that, from a purely econimic perspective (which is what anno is talking about) it doesn't matter what the content of a show is.

The thing about Eva is that it was massively successful with people other than otaku. It was a mainstream success.

Do you know how uncommon that is anime?

What are anime that the average person in japan will actually watch? There's the prime-time kids stuff (pretty cure being the biggest one), there's Eva, and there's Miyazaki.

Everything else is for the Otaku.

In business you need to expand or eventually die off. Trying to sell all your products to the same niche audience (otaku) can't work out in the long run.

Outside of Miyazaki japan doesn't make much money over sea's. In it's home country anime has a huge stigma.


What the anime studio needs to survive is ambitious projects that bring in tons of new talent (thats what the old OVA market was), more ambitious work needs more people. They also need to appeal to people in their country other than Otaku.

>>116675280
That's the commercial side of it. Massive pandering, massive advertisement, massive fan hype.

Actual mainstream movies like One Piece and what not outright shits on Evangelion.

Frozen, a Disney movie makes Evangelion look like a late-night moe fanservice anime.

Evangelion is an established, popular franchise.

>>116675150
>Finish the sentence you faggot.
Sure
>Nowadays EVA is only unique in how it's a gigantic sellout franchise.

This sentence, especially the use of the word "nowadays", implies that you think that EVA used to be an unique show, but NOWADAYS it's only unique in the sense that it sold well (because other anime that came after it did the same things).

>>116675446
Frozen is feminist jew propaganda, fuck off.

>>116675150
You realize that is a commonly used and formal method indicating a quote goes on without finishing it right?

>>116675446
>Frozen, a Disney movie makes Evangelion look like a late-night moe fanservice anime.
And Evangelion makes Gundam look like a toy commercial.

>>116675360
>The issue is expanding the audience.
Which he fails at doing with Evangelion due to how much it panders. So now.

>Eva is actually panders less than other shows.
Don't agree at all, you can pick worse examples for almost everything but that in itself doesn't prove that Eva panders less.
There's almost always one show that panders more.

>What the anime studio needs to survive is ambitious projects that bring in tons of new talent (thats what the old OVA market was), more ambitious work needs more people. They also need to appeal to people in their country other than Otaku.
Which Anno does not do. Even his latest involvement in the animator expo project is going to do fuck all, as these small projects has been doing nothing before.

His Rebuild movies aren't the original Evangelion series you say became a mainstream sucess. Rebuild is coasting on that mainstream success and is becoming massively lucrative because he is now pandering to otaku and fujoshi niches. Anno is contributing through his own movies to that negative stigma by showing underage naked tits, boobs and ass, even venus mounds wherever he can into the movies he makes.
He's not helping.

>>116675446
>Frozen, a Disney movie makes Evangelion look like a late-night moe fanservice anime.

In what way?

>People ITT ACTUALLY think NGE is ja rip-off and not one of the greatest mecha anime of all time.

Yeah, fuck this place.

>>116675488
dont you say shit about frozen, bitch nigga

DO YOU EVEN BUILD A SNOWMAN?

>>116675629
In Gundam's defense, it is a toy commercial.

But if we're talking profitability and recognizability, Gundam > Evangelion by a large margin.

Reminder that picture related is not a photoshop.

>>116675706
Read the discussion above for context. He's claiming Rebuild isn't niche because it sold well at the box office.

>>116671151
was not LWA crowd funded...?

>>116675360
>He never says that retard
He said so in a recent interview actually.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/tokyo-festival-hideaki-anno-warns-of-trouble-ahead-for-japanese-animation-1201339991/

>”The Japanese animation industry has hit a dead end — it will be tough to escape unless we can make animation without commercial considerations,” Anno said in explaining his support of the project. “It may even be too late.”

Congratulations on showing everyone you don't what you're talking about, though I'm sure that could be divined from your post already.

>>116675668
You fucking retarded

The only anime not pander is shounen manga and family oriented anime like Doraemon. everything else are all pander to particular niches groups

>>116671151
>series
too much money needed, kickstarter wouldnt cut it

>>116675944
Episode to was funded on Kickstarter, if I'm not mistaken.

>>116675629
But Gundam is a toy commercial.

>>116675986
HAHAHAAHA

Fantastic counter-argument! Get fucked retard. Go whiteknight Anno somewhere else.

>>116665866
And yet he enables them by making merchandise, even going as far as rewriting his characters to have more moe traits and making an entirely new character. Just so he can make more money off merchandise

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>>116675848
Forgot the picture.

>>116675848
The mainstream don't care about Gundam anime. They recognize Gundam by gunpla not the anime. just look at the boxoffice of Zeta trilogy and 00 movies. it's Nanoha late night level box office, It's a joke comapred to Evangelion movie.

>>116675986
Pandering to a fanbase isn't the same thing as appealing to a certain fanbase.

>>116665945
Because it is, a structure doesnt died out in a sudden, it is slowly with cracks coming left and right
Just like your life

>>116676797
this might come as a shocker but everything will end one day man, including you

>>116676918
nice anime picture :^)

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Anime was saved already!

>>116677361
>anime
>it's 3D shit

>>116662670
I think the problem resides in the exact problem that affects the vidya industry as well, they are restricting their products to themselves too much.

>>116674779
>no mention of Baldios and Macross
I'm mildly disappointed

>>116677621
except vidyas are certainly not doing that and you should go back to /v/

>>116676956
Nice non-unique post :^)

>>116677695
I'm talking about broadening their products instead of developing them with the sole purpose of selling in japan. That happens in the vidya as well as in their anime industry.

>>116674779
Why the fuck does Eva have to be shoehorned into the genre of "mecha"? The show was primarily about its characters, not about giant robots fighting each other.
I bet you think Hyouka was about its mysteries too, you fucking moron.

you know, I think the reason why anno say shit like this is because inflammatory criticizing gets his news to be discussed and reposted everywhere and his name to stay relevant

He's literally click baiting, that clever kike

Japanese are stupid anyways.

There are so much neets then no one can actually nderstand they are doing shit.

And that's you're fault, /a/

>>116677931
Because it is mecha you giant fucking faggot. Mecha has human characters.
Mysteries has people in it.

Just get the fuck out.

>>116678098
Bingo.

>>116677841
didnt they already try broadening audiences with the cool japan thing? didnt it already fail?

>>116675509
Quoting part of a sentence to convey different context to its original thought is also similar to shilling and Jew media manipulation.

>>116671151
>and is not some pandering shit
But why would anyone fund something that doesn't pander to them? It makes no sense.

>>116678163
Too bad the anime wasn't about the giant robots fighting each other though.

>>116678457
Too bad even Anno considers it a mecha anime and nobody gives a shit about your hackneyed, wrong understanding of genres .
Hang yourself you pretentious piece of shit.

>>116678587
>being this retarded

I bet you think Avatar is just about the humans fighting the blue people too.

>>116668526
A recently funded kickstarter by frog eaters with a jap animator on board
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2088672139/urbance

>>116675706
Do you know how popular Frozen is in Japan?
It is currently the highest gross in Japanese box office

>>116676918
Of course, the average "MOESHIT KILLED ANIME GUYS" Is a /v/tard.

>>116677621
Except Video game currently has an alternative called Indie produxtion, same as indie movies
But ova, a form of indie anime which producer can freely express their artisitc mind, is slowly dying

>>116679161
Except it really did.

>>116679184
Indie production in videogames is shit. Movies have a legimitately decent outlet for artistic movies. Games do not.

>>116679207
subtlety, anon, you need to be subtle

>>116678892
>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2088672139/urbance
>In a post-modern city torn by street violence, sex is prohibited because of a deadly genetical virus infecting the entire population.

Lol, I bet Wizardchan would get a chuckle out of the concept. tfw Wizard of full rank ;_;

>>116662670
>I want something that can help to break through that deadlock.

You should remake Evangelion.

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>>116662670

>We need to rekindle the passion for working in the anime industry of the Japanese!
>Oh i know, let's create an anime about the nightmares and stress caused by working in an anime producing company
>It's called Shirobako
>Oh make sure this episode gives the spectators PTSD

Genius

>>116675706
>>116678946
>literally a 100% 3DCG singing movie BTFOs Japans "#1" Evangelion
top kek

Rebuild 3.33 only has the pretense of having some sort of message, heck even a plot. At the core it's just pandering to fujoshi and otaku, disappointing every single one of the audience members that thought it would be a serious movie when they walked in.

>>116676918
fuck off, nostalgiafags. how about you wash off those rose tinted shit smeared all over your glasses and stop whining about the good old days that never really existed?

>>116679240
It doesnt matter if its shit
it makes profit, and theres new blood because people see how successful minecraft is and they have an optimism to earn that much regardless if minecraft is a rare diamond
But for anime, no new blood becuase people only see hopelessness

>>116665787
I can't help but feel this gif is edited.

>>116665787
>>116679700
It's like the scene from watership down.

He's just showing his bird friends that the hrududu aren't interesting in killing them.

I know this is an unpopular opinion but I genuinely believe that we won't see another golden age of anime, and that another country (most likely American) will take whats good about Japanese animation and apply it from here on out.

I just think it's inevitable. The Toonami generation is either still in college or just graduating. We haven't even begun to see the true influence anime has had on American animation.

I think what Japan has done is create almost a subset of anime. The otaku pandering shit, they shouldn't even fight against it at this point. Just embrace it and keep making those shows, while studios outside of Japan push the medium forward.

>>116680238
>will take whats good about Japanese animation and apply it from here on out
Apply it to what?

>>116680415
Animation, i.e. the topic we're discussing.

> It will be in decline for a while and once it hits bottom, it will rise up again.

At least he got one thing right

>>116680482
What kind of animation? One of the 8 kids shows west makes each season? Or the 3DCG movies?

>>116680596
It will rise from the ashes of this moetrash and shounenshit.

>>116680819
Shows that look like actual Japanese animation in style, but made in America.

I'm not sure why people think this is impossible.

>>116681054
Because there is no market to support them.
No one in the west would be willing pay $300 for 12 episodes on BDs of something that they already saw on TV just to support the studio like Japs do, and these shows don't have the mainstream appeal to survive on advertisements alone.

>>116677931
Why does VOTOMS have to be shoehorned into the genre of "mecha"? The show was primarily about its characters and like half the episode didn't even feature a mech in them.

>Taking the word of Japanese George Lucas
I shiggy diggy

Seriously though, did anyone think that anime wouldn't get to this point? It happened with western animation, in which everything was being commercialized, packaged, and shipped for consumption by the lowest common denominator. Hence moeshit, shounenshit, and kiddieshit being the most popular genres.

Saw it coming from a mile away. Maybe it'll have a "rise from the ashes" moment eventually, sorta like western animation tried to have.

Ironically, the merchandise that seems to sell the most comes from shows that try to give a legitimate emotional connection to a character. So pandering is actually counter-productive.

>>116681575
The only reason why BDs are priced so high is because no one in Japan is willing to buy them except for the people willing to at that price.

>>116681575
>an anime market doesn't exist in America
Goodbye

>>116681976
So you're saying the exact same shit Anno said, so whats the problem? You faggots try too hard to discredit him.

>>116682095
Do you seriously believe that there's a bigger market for anime in america than there is in Japan?

>>116682435
crunchy roll shows there's a pretty large base

>>116674040
Anno doesn't think moe existed back in the day.

see >>116665575


>Student Questioner: What genres of anime do you dislike?

>Anno: Works that are specifically moe, and horror. I am no good with horror, or with haunted houses.

>You said you dislike moe, but isn't Asuka moe?

>Anno: When I did the TV series, there was as yet no such thing as moe. I like Sailor Moon as well.

>>116682866
I'll repeat myself. Do you think it is bigger than the one in Japan?

>>116679700
That's because he doesn't really stand out in the 2 frames he's under the bus.
I've seen one caught in a tram rail, so it's entirely possible that he didn't move

>>116682435
>Do you seriously believe that there's a bigger market for anime in america than there is in Japan?

Demographically, yes. Absolutely. But eyeballs are hard to monetize, when it's an overseas market.

But in terms of net profitability, it's been a tough row to hoe since the bubble burst in 2008.

>>116663076
Rebuild 1 is good and Rebuild 3 have some decent moments but is still a shit.

>>116683309
1 is a rehash.
2 is pretty good.
3 is garbage.

All cash-ins.

1. Quality is subjective
2. Anno ain't made TV anime for ages
3. Any problems anime has in the future are merely minor concerns compared to Japan's future

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>>116681575
Netflix backs a lot of original content, and has produced two cartoons. The Turbo spin-off and Bojack Horseman, not to mention dabbling in recently aired anime like the curiously labeled "Netflix Original" Knights of Sidonia. If there was a bigger audience I bet Netflix would fund and distribute original "late-night styled" anime(or anime-esque products).

>>116681976
>it'll have a "rise from the ashes" moment eventually, sorta like western animation tried to have.

Western animation didn't try, they did. Coming out of the 80s when all cartoons were just pushing toys(this is not to say that its successors did not that) or Scooby Doo clones. For perspective, this is when anime was getting a bigger presence in the west with Akira. Disney got out of its slump, and notably started experimenting with CG. You had Steven Spielberg producing stuff like Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and Freakazoid. Not to mention more adult fare like the Simpsons and South Park.

The key feature with the TV cartoons in the 90s is that the people running the show grew up on the zany, zeitgeist-minded cartoons of the 50s-70s, and so you see the influences in their products, e.g. basically anything Genndy Tartakovsky worked on.

I think I see now where Anno is coming from, the lack of fresh blood and an environment to cultivate creativity. Then again, the west's renaissance only came after the collapse of the studios and a good few years of only being able to target certain demographics.

>>116666164
that is the sad true.

>>116666399
hahahahahahahaha poor kid.

>>116683727
>Disney got out of its slump, and notably started experimenting with CG. You had Steven Spielberg producing stuff like Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and Freakazoid. Not to mention more adult fare like the Simpsons and South Park
And what happened after that? By the mid-2000's it was back to 11-minute commercials. The "renaissance" barely lasted a decade.

>>116662670

B-b-b-b-but Amiami and the like are always brimming with hot new products! How can people say anime is dying is the merchandize is selling like highly-refine cocaine?

>>116683921
The death of the Saturday morning cartoon and having cartoons on weekdays with the advent of online and streaming. executives are running like headless chickens with no clue how to run things and the return live action sitcoms being viable again though I'm starting to see a slow return with kickstarter though it's too early to tell if we are out of the dark age

>you guys are still gonna watch shit anime

>>116662670
Its not outsourcing that is killing anime. It's the producers who only back well known adaptations of games, novels, manga, etc. They are not putting out anything original. Even Hollywood is in the same bind. You see nothing but remakes and sequels. No one takes risks and is afraid of failure. Also, it's not like you need a huge staff to make anime. Look at Makoto Shinkai and his early works. He did it all by himself with his girlfriend.

>>116684376

I know I will.

>>116684376
>tfw I dont watch Sunrise or Shaft anime

Already doing my part. What about you?

>>116683921
You still had some pretty good productions around '04, '05. Starting from the late 80s, that's only a little under 20 years, which isn't bad. Shit can't last forever and it's not like animation was the only thing hurting financially in the late '00s.

Not to mention by the turn of the century, more animated films than ever, as well as CGI and Flash being more wide-spread that pretty much any asshole can produce something.

>>116682866
Are you seriously comparing the chump change of a CR membership with the purchase of a single BD?

>>116684331
streaming wasnt really a thing in early 2000
back then no one torrented episodes of sponge bob and dexter's laboratory

>>116665575
Fuck you Anno, moe isn't a fucking genre.

>>116684703
Basic business. Lower price, but more customers.

If you want a bigger, more varied market, then BD's aren't the way to go. Only a fanatic would splurge on a goddamned BD. The high price point is turning people away.

>>116684804
Yes and no. You could try and increase demand by lowering the price (i.e. reducing the costs of producing BDs). However, some shows simply wouldn't get bigger audience.

> Only a fanatic would splurge on a goddamned BD
Exactly. Some genres would benefit from this, but anime as a whole, is meant to be for fanatics.

It's not as clear cut as you think.

>>116684947
>However, some shows simply wouldn't get bigger audience.
Because they're moe-pandering shitfests.

>>116684804
So if it's available for free, then it would reach the broadest and most diverse market? I started to like the sound of the whole business thing.

>>116662933
>90%
Oh, I fucking love exaggerations.

Majority of names in the credits are still Japanese names. I don't what anime you're watching but the outsource Korean animators are just a minority compared to the Japanese staff.

I just realized these threads are as dumb as having a meta discussion about 4chan


lel, keep blaming that moe strawman, newfriends

>>116685050
Yep. But to make money you'd need to ad ads. It's a fantastic business model that make people filthy, filthy rich.

>>116685142
>just realized
Took you long enough, slowking.

>>116685329
it's the exact same thing as a metathread, all of the people acting like they know their shit have no idea what they're talking about