Hideaki Anno Warns of Trouble Ahead for Japanese Animation

Yamakan 2.0

Finally, the hero anime deserves.

>it will be tough to escape unless we can make animation without commercial considerations

Those terrible people who buy your products and let you do what you love. It's all their fault.

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>Anno is malking sense change

>>115977085
>I’ll return to ‘Evangelion’ after I do something different,” he said.
Is he not even working on it? jesus.

>>115977203
The problem is that when you pander to their already established tastes and there are no risks taken, you end up with a stagnant, dying market, and will eventually deprive those same fans of material they would have already had.

On another note- Anno, are you just trying to get a bunch of people to just do what you did when you were a kid? Diacon IV came out twenty one years ago, dude.

>>115977085
Is this going to end up like that Studio 4C project called Amazing Nuts, where the most popular shorts out of the project were going to become actual anime? (too bad that didn't end up happening.)

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>>115977085
>“It may even be too late.”

Does anyone actually like or want shorts? I know I don't. I want a solid story and time to develop it. Not a 5-minute style over substance circlejerk.

>>115977248

A pig that doesn't fly is just a pig

>>115977471

I like shorts, they're comfy and easy to wear.

>>115977259
I understood it as him working on 4.0 right now, will do something else after, and come back to Eva again.

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>>115977359
There is a trailer. Look like a hipster shit

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2jsCNtNVEo4

>>115977471

Maybe you should read a book then

>>115977203
Nice strawman, faggot.

>>115977471
I love shorts, shit like Cencoroll and that robot one whose name I can't remember is awesome. They do always leave me wanting more though.

>>115977203
By commercial considerations I'm pretty sure he's talking about the niche otaku market, not children or normalfags or anything of that sort.

Still, with Anno funding this project and Trigger forming a potential partnership with Pixar, it's very likely that they know anime is dying as it is right now, and they know it.

>>115977359
>when you pander to their already established tastes and there are no risks taken, you end up with a stagnant, dying market
What already established tastes? People who like mecha shows? Idolfags? Making mecha shows or idol shows isn't "pandering", it's creating a product to meet a demand. Risks have to be taken to innovate but there's a balance to be struck there, and it has to be on the level of individual companies and projects. Saying you need to be divorced from commercial considerations is typical artist stupidity.

>>115977259
Can you not read? He's saying that he's hoping to do something different after 3.0+1.0, and then maybe return to Eva.

He's entirely right, though. Japan needs to have something that completely changes the industry soon. It's been, what, twenty years since Eva? We need another big project to completely "wow" us again, and get studios to stop doing the same thing over and over again.

>>115977085
>I’m thinking that I’ll return to ‘Evangelion’ after I do something different
Man, at this right we'll never get it.
But it's weird, I'm not sad about that, I rather see Anno work on something new than milk NGE even more

>>115977085
>continues to make Eva

>>115977559
I do. Doesn't mean I want a stupid teaser when I watch my animus.

>>115977085
>The plan is to make an initial line-up of about 30 animation shorts, an average of five to six minutes in length.
So more ignorable shits? Okay.

>>115977203
Anno has always had commercial considerations in his projects, he talk shit about irresponsible people.

Here he is saying that it's needed to do something new, without commercial restrictions as an investment to push the limits of commercial animation.

You need to make some bad independent 3DCG movies before making a commercial series like Sidonia.

>>115977551
>>115977551
Some of those look like fucking eyesores, but there seem to be some really fun ones too. There's also some Evangelion, so there's that I guess.

>>115977259
they really just need to finish and release it while he's gone before he fucks anything else up

>>115977701
Honestly though he is right that the industry is thinking too much of commercial aspects. Few studios are trying to take a risk.

>>115977637
No we don't. I am really fucking mad at the increasing mainstreaming of anime thanks to Crunchy fucks. If I had to give up my memories of anime forever in exchange for unleashing a mass mind-wiping wave that would revert it to a quirky, despised thing, I would do it in a heartbeat.

>>115977551
Funny. A third of those looked like generic shit with typical cute girls as the lead.

>>115977085
>unless we can make animation without commercial considerations
I'm fairly sure that's the way to a dead end. Making shit that's profitable earns the industry money.

>>115977551
Some of that does look like hipster shit, but some of it looks really cool.

>>115977471
Pleb and proud.

>>115977611
Which niche otaku market? The one that makes massive successes of idol shows and actually sustain the industry?

If you don't like the shows that are being made, shut the fuck up and open your wallet.

>>115977085
Anno is truly the Kanye of anime.

>>115977701

Practice making bad 3dcg to make a bad 3dcg show isn't something that should be applauded

>>115977756
Why does it make you mad though?

>>115977819
I thought we all agreed he was the George Lucas of anime. Come on, he can't be two counterparts at once.

>>115977756
what does this have to do with an industry-changing production? I don't like generic mass-market titles either, but a breakout success doesn't need to be one.

>>115977085
We need fucking 60 fps action scenes and less moe shit

>>115977635
I think the claim here is that there isn't a balance- the market is TOO commercial, and it's stifling innovation. He's not saying that the market as a whole needs to be divorced from commercial consideration, but there's a need for people to work on a few projects divorced from commercial consideration to push the medium forward a little bit, and get animator's and director's chops up.

>>115977756
You're misunderstanding what I'm saying. What I mean is that we need studios to start taking more risks, and not just focus on "how much merch can we sell"

It has nothing to do with anime's mainstream in the West. If it helps to dispel your fears, anime will never be as widespread/popular in the West as it was in the late 90s to the early 2000s.

>>115977864
He didn't sell Eva off yet.

The Miyazaki of our times.

>>115977760
You can't make anime without cute girls

>>115977875
>We need fucking 60 fps action scenes
CGifag please go and stay go

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>>115977085
>”The Japanese animation industry has hit a dead end — it will be tough to escape unless we can make animation without commercial considerations,”
>Anno, of all people, saying this
That faggot has been milking his cash cow for almost 20 years now

>>115977085
>it will be tough to escape unless we can make animation without commercial considerations

So he ACTUALLY thinks that Rebuild is the better version.

>>115977984
He has experienced the crisis firsthand.

>>115977800
>Which niche otaku market? The one that makes massive successes of idol shows and actually sustain the industry?

Yes. Because there's no long-term future for that. They obviously want to expand outside of that and find a new target audience to cater to, one that doesn't prefer the same regurgitated idol, and harem shit over and over and over again

>Anno Warns of Trouble Ahead
It's like he's the messiah.

>>115977890
>If it helps to dispel your fears, anime will never be as widespread/popular in the West as it was in the late 90s to the early 2000s.

Unimaginably true. It was borderline acceptable then- now it's pretty heavily stigmatized.

>>115977984
Are you retarded? It has nothing to do with him, he's saying that innovation and creativity need to be more focused on, with a disregard for commercialism

>>115977085
It's okay because source material is ninety-nine out of one-hundred times better than animated adaptations

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>>115977085
>unless we can make animation without commercial considerations
Faggot, just end writing scenario tho the end before you begin animate, and don't waste time and money on shit when you know you don't have either of them to waste.

>>115978045
Protip: normal people don't want to dish money out for cartoons.

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>>115977882

But there are

>>115977984

Implying he wanted too you massive cunt even End of Eva is a massive "Fuck You"

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>Destroy his most popular work with pandering and shit writing
>Use the money for saving anime
A true hero

>The plan is to make an initial line-up of about 30 animation shorts, an average of five to six minutes in length. The shorts will be made with production support from Khara and distributed on Web and as smartphone aps with technical backing from Dwango.
What the fuck am I reading.

I was just asking myself the other day, "why are anime originals so much better than adaptations?"

>>115978118
Fuck you

>>115978118

Are you being ironic or legitimately retarded?

>>115978062
It was never acceptable. You were just young and in the culture.

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>>115978118

I don't understand. what risks do you faggots want them to take? whenever I hear this it just sounds like they want pretentious shit. do you even enjoy chinese cartoons?

>>115978129
He's a messianic figure. See >>115978129

>>115977800
You know westerners can't do shit to impact the market over there.

To be fair, though, I think when Anno is complaining about "commercial considerations", he means when blatant fan pandering sells the show, as opposed to high quality story telling. Shows where there's a bland, self-insert MC surrounded by pussy and there's a girl for everyone's tastes. When studios put merchandising and lewd art over telling a story that will last. Or when LN's only get adaptations to boost sales for the source. It's a problem in every industry, but in anime it gets worse and worse every year.

Shit, look at VN adaptations. Some go so far to put fanservice over story that they skim over routes in the game just so that each girl wins.

I don't know if there's anything inherently wrong with fan-service for the money, as long as it's not insulting to the audience, but the ones to blame are the Elevens buying the shit up non-stop.

>>115978185
>do you even enjoy chinese cartoons?
No, of course not.

>>115978164
Maybe not acceptable, but I remember there was a huge "japanese culture" craze where everything japanese was automatically hip and cool

It just seems like there's more retards attaching themselves to it now because we have a much more advanced internet.

>>115977893
I thought there are plans for a Hollywood movie out of it?

>>115978185
le epic fun things are fun may may

Yet another example of a director with unlimited budget telling people with limited budget to try harder.

>>115978256
You thought wrong, please try to not take every rumor you see as fact

They are making a GITS movie, though.

>>115978186
Mean to quote>>115978061

If Anno or anyone in the industry is serious about making the next big Eva to revive anime, then I feel the only step forward is to go international. They had their chance in the early and mid 2000's but they blew it then. With Trigger teaming up with Pixar and Anno taking a greater focus in 3D animation, that may be the road they're heading.

>>115978116
They dish a shit-ton of money out for movies though. The animation industry in America is huge off of movies alone.

>>115978288
>They are making a GITS movie, though.

No they're not.

He's write both about the dead end thing and the fact that it's pretty much already too little too late.

>>115977505
underrated post

>>115978185
>what risks do you faggots want them to take?
I only want new IPs. "Risks" could imply using alternative forms of animation, and Japan is batshit retarded at CGI.

>>115978249
>huge japanese culture craze
among kids, and not even all of them then

>>115977085
How many more times do you fuckers want to drive around this same circle until you're satisfied?

>>115978256
There were, and yes Gainax sold the movie rights, but they expired. There's a bunch of concept art and everything. It also had something to do with a split in the company or some shit.

>>115978310
Yeah and that animation industry is mainly filled with family films. Face it, well-adjusted adults won't be watching animation.

>>115977085

>”The Japanese animation industry has hit a dead end — it will be tough to escape unless we can make animation without commercial considerations,”

Says the guy who made the series that had the most commercial tie ins up until that time. And set up the 'commercial industry' anime is running on now.

Also, Anno was bitching about the anime industry being dead back in the late 90s. Before it quadrupled in size.

>>115978310
>the next big Eva
>revive anime
Anime is dead because it doesn't pander to my mature and refined tastes!

I'm pretty happy with how anime is right now, I mean we get a whole lot of crap but there is such volume being produced that there's at least one worthwhile anime every season. There is certainly still innovation in the anime industry.

You can't just ask businesses to stop focusing on commercial success, studios will do what is popular until a director wants to break the mold, then that becomes the new paradigm if it's a success.

>>115978311
Where have you been? Dreamworks is making it. It's going to be a trainwreck.

IBM.
That is all.

>>115978334
>among kids
And the kids now have access to the internet, it's a lesser version of what happened back then, and it's not anything to freak out over.

>>115978350
Anno owns all the rights to Eva now.

>>115978236
Then he should look for a way to get better writers in the industry. A few well-written studio original shows would break the illusion that only LN or manga adaptations are safe bets.

It would certainly be better than complaining about the people who buy BDs and merch as if you could trade in your customer base for a better one.

>>115978407
They don't and there is no movie.

>>115978164
I said "borderline." There was a certain amount of it people would tolerate. They'd think it was weird, but the stigma is way more intense now- I attribute a lot of that to Naruto, Bleach, and One piece catching on hardcore stateside.

>>115978185
Its codeword for more deepfag shit

>>115978236
You retarded.
>Shit, look at VN adaptations. Some go so far to put fanservice over story that they skim over routes in the game just so that each girl wins.
95% of book/manga/vn/game adaptations are shit, anime or no. It's a rule. Commercialization has little to do with it, it's a shitty writers/directors fault and desire to cram everything in one go.

>>115978318
overrated post

>>115978281
I don't think it's like that at all, I think he's trying to say that he understands where the smaller studios are coming from and he wants to help them out by contacting some their directors for this collaboration project. That's it.

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>>115977203

Daily reminder that criticizing the lack of ideas on the anime industry doesn't mean to hate cute girls. Everyone loves cute girls on Japan, especially the people working on the industry. Even Miyazaki is an obvious lolicon. The criticism isn't about girls wearing miniskirts, it's about lazyness and lack of inspiration

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Enough talking Hideaki. Put up or shut up.

>>115978116

That's why Pixar movies keep breaking records. beating out live action films.

>>115978310

>They dish a shit-ton of money out for movies though. The animation industry in America is huge off of movies alone.

The animation industry in America is hardly 'huge'. Its basically 3 different companies publishing and producing all the animated titles. Which are mostly done by Korean/Japanese animators anyway.

To add to this, the only reason movies do so well in America is because of massive advertising. They spend well over 200 million dollars advertising every new Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks movie. Then break even on the box office sales. Its the DVD/Blu Ray sales which bring in all the money. Its basically an investment.

And even then, what is all that advertising aimed at? The Hollywood actors who do the voices for characters. Not the unique story or animation itself.

It all started from Beat Takeshi

>"I hate anime and even though I truly hate, like, Hayao Miyazaki's work, I can recognize how great anime is just by the amount of money it earns.
http://kotaku.com/beat-takeshi-hates-anime-and-thats-okay-1651169963

Inb4 kotaku, actually it has better translation than ann

Oh fuck everyone head for the hills!

Anime is dying!

Again.

This shit is getting so old.

>>115978116
Thats the issue

>>115978515
>>115978515
>>115978515
This is the problem. Not cute girls, not fanservice, not adaptations.

>>115978487
I don't know, in my mind the stigma was even deeper back then with ultraviolence and hentai.

>>115978561
No one is saying it's dying. Anno is just saying it'll hit a dead end as far as quality goes. There's just a lack of good writing in the industry, and an abundance of shit taste in the market.

>>115978516
> lazyness and lack of inspiration
This, pretty much this.
I don't even know how bad those concept makers' ideas are nowadays, but they are mostly shit that wouldn't sell because they are clearly uninteresting, like Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou.

>>115977085
>anno in any way an authority on anything other than being successful as a hack writer

>>115978553

>And even then, what is all that advertising aimed at? The Hollywood actors who do the voices for characters. Not the unique story or animation itself.

Its so sad how Hollywood even controls the animated industry in America.

>>115978383
>had the most commercial tie ins up

What is Gundam

>>115978520
Like Tomino's any better anyway

>>115978515
I don't know if i want to punch the right guy because of what he said or because his retarded face

>>115978399
>Anime is dead because it doesn't pander to my mature and refined tastes!

>mention the American animation industry in my post, which focuses on children and families

Talk about poor reading comprehension.

>>115978378
Your point? It's different from the usual pandering fare and a fairly big-budget, successful movie could provide enough cash to fund their own independent projects.

>>115978438
The problem is only LN or manga adaptations are a safe bet because the audience doesn't give a shit about anything beyond jerking-off. Even original shows are full of pandering and safe choices in an attemp to attract the otaku yen.

Anime is stuck on a vicious cycle of late-night cartoons made by otakus and consumed only by otakus. The solution would be going back to the casuals but the primetime is full of J-dramas and variety shows and they're already struggling for maintain the ratings because the audience is tired of the same shit over and over again

>>115978520
>implying anyone's going to take him seriously anymore after G Reco

>>115978621
So what's the fix, eh? They our a ton of money into things consumers probably WON'T pay for, and haven't been proven, and magically turn a profit?

Those people with shit taste are the only ones who matter in the grand scheme, anon.

>>115978621
As opposed to when?

>>115978666
>>115978665
Tomino and Gundam deserve huge credit for keeping anime relevant as a whole. They are definitely a contributing factor. If Gundam didn't exist, neither Japan nor the USA would be as much into anime as they are.

>>115978685
I want to punch you because you're a namefag.

>>115978621
>There's just a lack of good writing in the industry, and an abundance of shit taste in the market
That sounds like every industry, honestly.

>>115978685
>I want to punch someone for liking things I don't like
You've succinctly summarized this thread. Thank you.

>>115978185
>what risks do you faggots want them to take?
Ping Pong

>>115978780
And that's why anime is dead.

>>115978665

The amount of crappy merchandise tie ins that came out for Eva made Gundam look insignificant.

Yes, Gundam was made to be a tie in to a toy line. But the point was, Eva had 100x the merchandise of Gundam (or any other anime up to that point). It pretty much set the standard for future shows which didn't make money off of DVD sales, but royalties off merchandise.

>>115977756
>My interest that was never obscure is getting more fans
Absolutely pathetic wannabe hipster shit. No better than the losers who stop listening to bands once they go big. Go find a new edgy hobby big daddy.

>>115978799
I proudly carry my nickname, because i don't fear expressing my opinions.

>>115978696
My point is that there is no 'new target audience' for these novel projects, not in the grand scale. The only people who are willing to dish money out for animation are the obsessive idol fans and maybe families.

>>115977745

I've kind of noticed it and been tolerating it a bit for a while, but it's just become really blatant in the last year and a half or so I'd say. I find it's mainly Aniplex pushing this sort of hyper commercialized model with trying to make all these big budget blockbuster style over substance shows with plug in x commercially popular staffers like Gen Urobuchi, Sawano and Kaijura adapted at y currently popular studio like Madhouse, SHAFT, ufoTABLE, Sunrise etc. using Z popular LN/VN license.

We also seem to get like a seasonal Monogatari entry as well out of them now because it's guaranteed easy sales regardless of content and effort level. It kind of gets old pretty fast and they're just so blatant about the commercial intent it kind of bleeds into the shows themselves and any enjoyment I might get out of them. Even if I kind of like some of those people, studios and franchises I prefer them in small doses as opposed to like...I don't know...ALL THE FREAKING TIME with constant commercial promotions and in your face blanket advertising.

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>>115978817
The only reason that shit sold was because of Yuasa, the same reason why Cross Ange would ever sell (muh Nana Mizuki).

>>115978875
Holy shit, where did you come from?
Please get the fuck >>>/out/

>anime is dying

I don't know how many of you youngins were even around in the 80s, but I can tell you that anime is being produced at a rate greater than ever before. They wouldn't be making so many god damn new anime if they didn't sell.

>>115978780
Keep making good anime and people's tastes will accustom over time. Sort of like how Hollywood pushed cape films. Now everyone goes to the movies to see shitty, tasteless Marvel drek no matter how bad it is because they've become accustomed to it.

Shame that the anime industry is so divided that it can't even afford that.

>>115978870
>No better than the losers who stop listening to bands once they go big.
Usually the reason bands "get big" in the first place is because they deviate from their original formula that made them obscure, obviously that would alienate old fans.

>>115978310
>the next big Eva
Eva was a product of its time and it was hardly groundbreaking concept-wise even then, pandering mostly to otakus (the early/first otakus, but otakus nonetheless).

If anything we should be looking to/for a new Satoshi Kon in anime going forward.

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>Anno or Eva mentioned on /a/
>guaranteed 500 posts

Like shooting autists in a comic book store.

>>115978952
What they really mean is they want more "mature" and "creative" anime i.e. pretentious deepfag shit

>>115977756

That's not really the problem so much as companies scrambling to try to pander to these idiots and empowering them while kind of neglecting the traditional fanbases of anime more and more. It's also still pretty despised at large if not moreso now because it's living up more and more to the stereotypes people always used to attribute to it because it's basically catering to braindead idiots more and more and becoming increasingly simplistic in the kinds of stories the shows try to tell and how it goes about telling them even as the budgets are increasing and shit continues to look flashier and flashier.

>>115979001
>the most influential and popular anime of all time
>not ground breaking
This is what a significant portion of /a/ actually believes.

>>115978952
They know perfectly well it isn't dying. They just don't like what it's turning into. These threads are thinly-veiled complaints about "moeshit" by the people who think trigger is a good studio.

>>115978952
Are you mentally challenged? The point isn't that nothing is being made, it's that what is being made is generic shit we've all seen a thousand times before

I think you're going senile, gramps.

>>115978448
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell#Live-action_adaptation

>>115978845
Hurr durr

It's ok for gundam to make 10+ sequel to selling toys.

>>115979001

I'll just keep watching Junichi Sato shows. You know, a guy who has been working on series since the 1980s and is still going strong now.

He even worked on the storyboard for End of Eva.

>>115978666
Come on, Tomino has ALWAYS done what he can in his power to tell a story he wants regardless of the obsessive fan market and his shows don't pander to the lowest Japanese man. Even if his story telling in a bit unorthodox, Tomino just doesn't give a shit about the fans and keeps pushing himself ti keep making anime

>>115978823
>it's dead because it profitable
>it will be alive when it become financial failure
If you give creators too much freedom without any restrictions, you won't get better product - you will get shit, or nothing at all.

>>115979001
>Eva panders to otakus
Except it doesn't. I don't get why people keep pushing this idea.

>>115979063
I like moe. There's room for moe, the issue isn't moe. It's that there isn't ANYTHING fresh, so it's all stagnated shit we've seen already.

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Another nutjob crying because people don't like what he likes

>>115978962
>Keep making good anime and people's tastes will accustom over time.
>over time
>time
>MONEY

Also, Hollywood never pushes jack shit. Marvel figured out the perfect superhero blockbuster formula, and it sold like hotcakes. Everyone (including Marvel themselves) has been aping that formula ever since, and it's been working.

An industry will never change its consumers. Ever.

>>115979032
Better than slice of life that's devoid of anything.

>>115978784
America and the rest of the western world does not give a shit about Gundam and never has.

If anything, American networks broadcasting the stuff over here on childrens' channels like cartoon network are the ones that you should be thanking.

>>115978962
Capeshit is the anime equivalent of haremshit though.

>>115979069

>It's ok for gundam to make 10+ sequel to selling toys.

No one even implied this.

>Hurr durr

Good summary of your post.

>>115978809
I will put the blame on Aniplex-Ponycanyon-Kadokawa-Lantis domination in the anime/manga/LN industry.

>>115978952
He's not talking about anime dying, if you didn't notice. He's more concerned about mass-producing shit that currently sells. All cheap LN adaptations for no other reason but to milk money from desperate otaku, without any effort to do anything else.

>>115978780
People will pay for good content, period. Problem is, the people with shit taste consider tits, ass, and moe. Those people are in the majority. But it's not like that is THE ONLY thing that will sell. A recent example, SnK is selling pretty well and doesn't have much fanservice in the show itself. Yeah, there's some fucking sketchy merchandising, but the animators and writers of the show are giving their all trying to make a good, loyal adaptation.

If you gotta sell daki's of the cast or something to keep the show afloat, so be it. But the integrity is in making the show itself.

>>115977637

Well speaking just about Japan they're pretty much enraptured with Love Live but I don't really think that's the solution. Some people might argue that that franchise was Madoka but I'm still not sure. Others seem to argue that Gen Urobuchi is the solution to all of animes writing problems but I personally find him far to one dimensional and prone to quitting on projects mere episodes into writing the scripts to be much of a positive influence.

>>115979001
>eva panders to otaku

You're a fucking retard, Eva tells otaku to go fuck themselves, and Anno laughs when they still don't see that and keep throwing money at him

>>115979089

IT'S OKAY WHEN TOMINO DOES IT

>>115977085

Fuck you Anno. You shat all over Evangelion. I don't give a flying fuck what you think. You are a hack like George Lucas.

Sell Evangelion to someone who can actually do some good with it.

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>>115979059
>the most influential and popular anime of all time
Gee, did you come up with that yourself or was fed that shit by the marketing team(s)?

>>115977085
The fucking irony.
Anno's fucking Evangelion franchise management is the main culprit of the current state of anime industry. what the fuck is he warning people about? what a piece of shit

>>115979167
Are you seriously implying SnK is a good show?

>>115978515

god the right guy is total husbando materia

I'd love to cuddle with him every night, feeding him his little girl bullshit while I suck his japanese mashmallow dick.

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>>115977373
>No Global Astroliner Gou anime
Still mad, fuck everything

>>115979194
I found the retard, guys

>>115979032
>creativity is a bad thing now
Jesus Christ.

>>115979126
>liking SoL

I'm still in favor of a non-Japanese company taking everything inherently good about anime and co-opting it into something new. It's pretty clear they're beyond saving, but the medium doesn't need to die along with their shitty, untalented industry.

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Can I say that I absolutely agree with him and that I'm really excited for this without you guys calling me a hipster?

I'll have hope if that tag-team project between Pixar and Trigger actually ends up being something PG13. If not then both industries will continue to remain stagnant in their own ways.

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>>115978496

>50+ hour of story to read
>Very Little to no Gameplay
>Longer than a Book/LN and most manga
>Main selling points are the possibility of dating and or fucking the cute girl on the cover and the feeling of loss
>Tragedy in the final acts are guaranteed
>Long and Truncated story telling due there formats

VN's are the worst things getting adapted hands down

VN's are for shitty people with lots of time to waste and are basically lower than scum so a good amount of the /a/ user base

>>115978944
>We also seem to get like a seasonal Monogatari entry
You retard or just idiot? Monogatary had commercial success and people begging to animate all novels that left, and they getting what they asked.

>>115978784

>Gundam
>Keeping anime relevant

Gundam has only been relevant to Gundam fans. That's like claiming Star Trek kept American TV relevant for 40 years.

>>115977471
Nigga well animated shorts are great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byAfC5yW_hw

>>115979178
I felt that Madoka was just trying to be the next "Eva", so to speak. I don't think it really changed anything other than show that there are still original ideas.

>>115979236

Did you think the Star Wars Prequel movies were good? Did you think 3.0 was good?

I rest my case.

>>115979262
>>115979270
>>>/co/

>>115979214
It wasn't brain numbingly stupid in terms of it's themes.

Simply because you think shonen and all the tropes that come along with it are of a lesser quality does not mean the show is bad. Try to be a little bit objective.

>>115979214
It's pretty good, but not great.
Lots of flaws, not in my favorites.

I'm glad anime will never pander to DEEPfags and casuals. Go watch your Western garbage.

>>115977551
Looks all pretty interesting.
Suddenly I am about to regain faith in Anno.

>>115979190
But Tomino hasn't pandered to the fans, in fact, he hates them.
What's there for him to do.
Now that I assume Anno has done this to gain money witht eh rebuilds, I guess he never became a sellout and just wanted to imporve the industry from within by going with the flow and redirecting it while Tomino goes fully againts it

>>115979134
>>115979069

Gundam is Gundam. It is an unstoppable behemoth and can do whatever it wants to. 2013 was a record year for Gundam profits and this is a nearly 40 year old series.

Gundam is no offense or thread to anime. If anything it's helped the industry as a whole by keeping foreigners interested. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

captcha: Gunduck ckiodat

>>115979185
How is Eva telling otaky to go fuck themselves exactly?

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>>115978496

This. Take a look at Eva manga spinoffs. I dont know what were they thinking when they hired this bitch for IM2nd

>>115979116
>>115979185
"Pandering" is probably the wrong word. "Appealed" is what I meant.

>>115979103
You're right. My penis can't wait for LN adaptation # 55354545, with the same plot I've seen 20 times this year, the same character designs, the same characters but with diferent names, the same VAs (even if they're new VAs, they all sound the same), the same development and a hook for next season.

>>115979032
Your opinion is prove that currently the industry write for shit unless it's harem/comedy/romance

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>>115977551
Looks great to me. I'm all for Anno serving as a patron of new anime.

>>115979313
>hur durr it HAS to be Japanese
No, it doesn't. You could probably direct a competent anime at this point seeing as you've most likely seen enough to know it's inherent qualities.

>>115979032
You must be a very stupid person.

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Unfortunately people will always refuse to step out of their comfort zones when it comes to anime.

Because there's so much anime out all the time, the likelyhood of something pandering specifically to your taste are pretty high, you're never really put in a situation where you have to branch out and try something new or something you may have never considered before.
Kyoani fans only watch Kyoani shows
Moefans only watch moe shows
Action fans only watch action shows
DEEPfans only watch DEEP shows
Hell there's some people who only watch adaptions of their favourite manga/VN/LN and people who only watch original shows.


Nobodies willing to take a risk with their time and money watching a genre, director, studio that they're unfamiliar with or refuse to associate with for whatever reason just as much as studios are unwilling to take any risks.

>>115977471
No way, shorts are a great avenue for interesting and quirky ideas that wouldn't make it to the screen otherwise

>>115979308
The Rebuilds aren't good, you moron. That's the point. The Rebuilds are a massive troll by Anno to make fun of all of us for not being able to let go a decade later.

>>115979351
Did you not watch End of Evangelion?

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>>115979318
And here's the proof, that /a/ has been taken by tumbr/MAL faggots.

I mean, if Naruto threads weren't enough evidence for you guys.

>>115979130
I live in America. Almost everyone at my college knows what Gundam is. I doubt many know what any other given anime series is.

>>115979313
Stop denying it, you know dam well that collaboration is the future and that Japan will have to convert to 2D if they want their animation industry to survive.

>>115979358
Boohoo. Go watch your Parasyte and Ping Pong and stop bitching about things other people enjoy.

>>115979237
Isn't one sympthom of autism to hate new things?

I'll be called a troll or baiter here but do we need more anime/manga that's exactly like SHingeki no Kyojin.
Decent story and characters that anyonecan understand and enjoy but the big deal is that it doesn't pander to anyone yet it sells like hot cakes even in Japan

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You guys are fucking stupid if you can't see that anime as a creative form is becoming increasingly homogenized and pandering to one particular taste palate. That is equal to the form dying, creatively.

>>115979404
Are you serious?

>>115979384
"anime" literally means japanese animation, though.

>>115979393
I'd say the peak is at around 150 shows, after that it's a lot more fun to just watch what you want.

>>115979393
>people will always refuse to step out of their comfort zones
Not really.

>>115979178

Wanted to add that some people might argue this season at least that Fate/Stay Night is that big next generation cutting edge show, but when you really think about it, the bar none most popular anime this season is a remake adaptation of a decade old eroge VN (since made just a regular VN admittedly) that features characters and story arcs most of the people watching it are likely already very familiar with and have been for about a similar amount of time as the franchise has been around and thus are mainly watching to see their favorite scenes adapted with a modern cutting edge look, sizable budget and the 2D/3DCGI blend animation style that is currently defining this era. This Fall season, the season that is supposed to be when the industry really brings out all of it's big guns, ideas and really starts pouring on the budgets, that show is considered to be the absolute best the industry can do by a considerable margin by many people. Just removing any and all fanboyism from the equation for half a second that's pretty damning for the anime industries ability to generate new content and not rely so much on past success and surefire hits.

>>115979403

Is that what you honestly believe?

You are a tool.

>>115979065
>The point isn't that nothing is being made, it's that what is being made is generic shit we've all seen a thousand times before
>everyone who watch anime seen everything I've seen in those 20 years
>and if they don't and being underage newfags, they should watch all those I deemed as masterpieces before they were born.
I thing you should stop watching anime and quit /a/.

I don't see harem as a bad thing. The problem is when it's always the same premises. We're lacking in variety.

>>115979439
>convert to 3D**

>>115979457
It just means less newfags. Can you say that is a bad thing?

>>115979404
Remember when /a/'s boogieman was Gaia?

>>115979354
How? By having 3 different flavor girls/mechs? That's something all people enjoy. Otaku aren't the only ones who like having waifu wars.

>>115979457
That is the same for every form of media.

>>115979442
Parasyte has a pretty typical plot though, it's just well-executed

>>115977551
>Looks promising
>Classical music in the background (Händel?)

Is the master back?

>>115979473
>"anime" literally means japanese animation, though.
The Japanese aspect means jack shit if we're being honest.

>>115979536
>wubstep
>well executed
Whatever, Im glad the manga industry is in better shape than ever

>>115979536
also same with Ping Pong

>>115979493
I think you should go get ready for bed, you have school in the morning.

>>115979491
Tell me what the "Curse of the Eva" is, then. It's Anno laughing at all of us as we keep giving him more money to destroy Evangelion. In that sense, you could say I love the Rebuilds not as films, but for what they represent.

>>115979456
Even though SnK is a shitty show, it does it right when it comes to pandering to a widespread, international audience.

AKA we need more Cowboy Bebops, FMAs, Big Os and so on.

>>115979589
B-but Yuasa...

>>115979358
That's your problem. And you should watch some other type of anime one in a while.

>>115979405
Not him, but funny. Hardly anybody around me knows what Gundam is (outside of a few who heard of Wing). I blame the poor marketing by Bandai.

>>115977085

well fuck man we have endless rehashes and anime is pirated the world over so fuck it let it burn... When was the last original anime?

>>115979584
>implying I was talking about the anime and not the manga
The plot is well-executed

>>115979456
HELL NO, especially because it was enslaved by the idea of "if you can't beat them, join them", and then the absolute lack of action in the latest chapters.

Isayama cannot into balance, and he'll be a slave to the editors who want to cash in on his successful manga.

>>115979130

Except for that time Gundam Wing exploded and, along with DBZ, basically made Toonami

>>115979560
Fuck the master. basically he's saying to make sellout even the authorial shorts
he's just the biggest bitch of entertainment

>>115977085
>>Asked about the fourth and last instalment in his new “Evangelion” series, Anno offered no new info about production. “I am definitely doing it, but I have to do this sort of thing as well. I’m thinking that I’ll return to ‘Evangelion’ after I do something different,” he said.

So, he asked 30 independent animators and gave them money to make some weird shit without trying to be commercial success.

And then he is gonna take the best ideas and men to make the most epic evangelion 4.0 possible.

How can this go wrong? This guy is really going to break anime again.

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>>115979506
Frankly, I'd much prefer it if we had a wider variety of shows in terms of plots and themes with varying styles, like we did around 6~8 years ago. Things really felt creatively free just that short of a time ago, but since then something happened, and now we have endless harem LN adaptions.

>>115979512
He's using MAL as boogieman, of course he doesn't remember, he wasn't here.

>>115979658
Thats not even a sentence.

>>115979403
You really are reading too much into it. Rebuild is another cash cow by a hack who got lucky and is trying to keep his shit relevant. And even if Anno wants to pretend he's above it all, at which point do you turn into the thing you try to mock? The fact is that he is feeding the otaku obsession as much as the generic light novel adaptations.

>>115979600
>AKA we need more Cowboy Bebops, FMAs, Big Os and so on.
Fuck you casual scum

>>115979405

I guarantee more people at your 'college' know what DBZ, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Eva, Naruto, Cowboy Bebop or Fullmetal Alchemist are.

Anime fans know Gundam. But people who don't even know what anime is know what DBZ, Sailor Moon and Cowboy Bebop are. because of Toonami/Adult Swim.

>>115979624
Cross Ange

>>115979595
Don't project so much, edgy manchildren.

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>>115979600
>AKA we need more Cowboy Bebops, FMAs, Big Os and so on.

please no

>>115979130
You're fucking joking right? Gundam is one of the few anime that non-japs even care about, along with DBZ, cowboy bebop, bobobobobobobobobo, inuyasha, yu yu hakusho, one piece, pokemon and avatar.

>>115979442
People are saying Parasyte is anything but mildly enjoyable? The only reason I'm watching it is because Madhouse is doing well with the animation.
Ping Pong was much better.

>>115979673
That guys probably wasn't here either.
I've said that statement tons of times, and I wasn't here.

>>115979276
>You're shitty and lower than scum because I say so.

>>115979610
Everybody knows that the plot was pretty standard for a sports manga. People liked it because because the characters were well-exposed and the directing was good. If you think Yuasa had any significant degree of control of the plot you're retarded.

I'm calling dibs on bike girl already, have a good feeling here.

>>115979393
you might as well say the restaurant industry is dead because picky eaters can get away with ordering chicken fingers everywhere they go

>>115979473

>"anime" literally means japanese animation, though.

anime is actually a shortened form of 'animation' first coined by the French and borrowed by Japan.

I know what you mean, what we classify as anime is a show produced in Japan. But the term itself isn't Japanese. Just like the term 'Loli' wasn't a Japanese invention. Its based on a term coined in Europe after the book Lolita.

>wants to see anime made without commercial considerations
>the guy who made the fucking Eva rebuilds

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>I only watch pretentious shit and everybody else should
This thread in a nutshell

>>115979600
I'd kill for another Big O and FMA but not Bebop, let it stay asleep in the last decade.

Thread like these really show just how much filth is riddled throughout /a/.

If you prefer anime to stay as it is and enjoy watching the same shitty moe series every season, you're a part of the problem.

>>115979404
the main proof is people here still like evangelion.

>>115979738
I'm saying people only liked Ping Pong because of Yuasa's name.

>>115979755
Yes, the questions we must ask if Anno's savior project is to succeed are: which is best girl and merchandise when?

>>115979214
It's a solid no-bullshit dark fantasy series with a good OST and occasionally awesome animation. Compared to other shonen nonsense with zero world-building and anything-goes nerd bait character designs like Akame la Kill it's absolutely amazing. But hey, whatever makes you feel superior to those "plebs" /b/ro.

>>115979672
Shana, Toradora and Index sparked the interest in light novel adaptations. I wouldn't call it "the beginning of the end" because there are light novels that were adapted earlier than the three like the Lost Universe (Slayers, for example). It's just that adaptations nowadays are taken from works from Syosetsuka no Narou (e.g. Mahouka).

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>>115979595
>Tell me what the "Curse of the Eva" is, then.

Not that anon, but it's the result of the pilots going past the safety depth ratios with their entry plugs.

Fucking Ritsuko states this several goddamn times throughout 2.22

>"Shinji stop! You're synch ratio is at 400% You won't be able to become human again!"
>"The angel contamination has pushed Asuka out of safety levels. She may no longer become human"
>"The transfer pilot of unit 02 is fine losing their humanity at the possibility of going beast mode."

And shit like that.
Learn to pay attention next time.

This is weird. People have been saying this shit since the 80s. I guess people have to be reminded every few decades.

There will always be commercially driven works and there'll always be a few that aren't. It's not going to change.

>>115979624
11 this season. Even if you don't count Gundams for obvious reason, it's still more than one.

>>115979694
>any opinion I don't share is edgy

>>115979689
Whether I'm reading into it too much or not, I don't really care. That's my interpretation, and it makes the films much better for me. I'm well aware he's as guilty as the people he's calling out, but at least he's the one trying to call for more creativity.

>>115979773
I never said the anime industry is dead, it's obviously making money.

>>115979692
What the fuck are you smoking?

SEED, G, and wing were all on toonami/AS.

>>115979269
Any sane person agrees with him. Disagreeing with him means you're defending boring generic shit like World Trigger and Girl Friend Beta. Nobody actually enjoys anime like this, but contrarians will pretend to as part of their "anime isn't dying, we have more than ever!" narrative.

>>115979692
>>115979130
Non anime fans know Gundam. If you're a male under 25 and live in America, it's kind of impossible to not know about Gundam. Our E.B.Games (now gamestop) shelves were full of Gundam games, our Toys R Us has Gundam action figures and models in the front rows, our main cartoon channels has Wing, 0079, and G Gundam playing in the evenings. I have a feeling you don't live here.

>>115979457
The issue is pandering to too many tastes in a single show.

>>115979788
The only commercial aspect to Eva at it's core is variety of girls and the mech designs. Neither of these things hinder the quality of the series.

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>>115979798
If watching cute slice of life is wrong, then I don't want to be right

>>115979844
No, I understand what the movie's explanation for it is. I'm saying the double meaning is Anno laughing at us refusing to grow up, just as Eva pilots are unable to.

>>115979870
>has
*had

>>115978249

I think you're talking about the Cool Japan era of the 90's and very early 00's which has long since died out since Western animation has made great strides to take care of it's own with the likes of what you see on Adult Swim and just a realization that animation doesn't have to be for kids. Anyway this was back when you had shows like Gundam Wing, DBZ, Cowboy Bebop, Big O, Outlaw Star, Texhnolyze, Rahxephon, Macross Plus, Evangelion etc. that were able to successfully tap into the mainstream American audiences and cross the cultural boundary to the point where they wern't really considered "anime" like a lot of today's stuff and just something cool and fresh to watch. Like you could never really air most of what comes on late night TV in Japan and have it ever hope to be successful, though god help Funimation they are trying to get that ball rolling again with some of the stuff they've been funding like Space Dandy.

>>115979067
Nope. I don't see anything. No movie, no way. They wouldn't spoil a great franchise with shit live action garbage. Just no.

More anime?
Great, and it seems interesting too, we don't get too many high quality shorts usually.
What are you even bitching about? Nobody is going to take your moeshit away from you.

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>This thread
We are playing into his hand.

>>115979286

You're seriously going to try to argue that Gundam has had zero influence outside of itself? What kind of anime scholar are you?

>>115979721
The manga spends some time building up to a pretty good level but I'd agree that it never quite reaches Ping Pong

What you normalfags need to understand is that anime is primarily an adaptation based medium. Saying anime needs to be made more creatively is retarded. In reality, creative manga and light novels get made all the time. And usually they fail. Why would an anime studio adapt something that already failed commercially?

The reality is that consumers dont want creative. They want harems, robots, and idols.

You fucking idiots.

Anno is at the fucking spearhead of ruining the anime industry.

He is literally rehashing Evangelion.
He has plans to LITERALLY rehash Nausicaa.

Hell he isn't even rehahsing them right, he's turning UP the otaku pandering despite there being literally no need to do that since Evangelion is an established moneymaker.

A couple of shorts which are literally drops in the ocean of the anime industry, accessible only for the tech-savvy crowd as opposed to having any sort of goal of reaching the masses is actually CONTRARY to the goal of creating sustainable growth.

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>>115979506
I'd rather have rec threads and good new shows to watch than shit new shows and anons with no standards making threads fighting over best girls of their respective series' 24/7.

>>115979841
Somehow you completely forgot haruhi which I'd say was more influential than the ones you mention combined

>>115979861
>pick the worst 2 shows of the season
>anime is dying guise!!
Fuck off back to MAL, where you can jerk off about how smart you are for watching through all of Monster and spamming Ping Pong AOTY threads.

>>115978310

There are some studios trying to go international again like TMS with that upcoming Lupin III anime as well as Mappa with pretty much anything they've done so far period feeling like it's aimed more at Western audiences than Japan.

>>115979841
>It's just that adaptations nowadays are taken from works from Syosetsuka no Narou (e.g. Mahouka).
And it won't get better, because authors are recruited directly from the audience. And LN audience reads nothing else.

>>115979276
>Main selling points are the possibility of dating and or fucking the cute girl on the cover and the feeling of loss
>Implying
If you step outside the high school setting there are good stories to be found which don't focus on dating cute girls.

>>115979960
What you need to understand is that you are taking the current state and are for some reason acting like it is the has-to-be-preserved optimum, totally ignoring the fact that you don't define what anime is or was or will be.

>>115979512
and now neo-4chan is worse than gaia ever was

>>115979960
>is that anime is primarily an adaptation based medium
Not exactly. There was a time when anime was mostly original work, 80s or 90s with a few OVAs based on manga

>>115979935
This is the dumbest fucking post in the thread. Take those nostalgia goggles off, son.

>>115977611
>Trigger with Pixar
I guess it's all over then, if western animation gets involved then anime is truly done for.

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>>115977085
Why not just adapt this and fund Part 2?

Is Anno the Alan Moore of anime?

>>115979870

They still aren't as obsessed over as the other shows I mention. Gundam Seed died a quick death over here. Even bobobo got more viewers than it did. Gundam Wing is the only real show that did well on American TV. And that was in the late 90s. Hardly anyone remembers it anymore.

The point is, Gundam is aimed at mecha/gundam fans. Other shows got much more popular with a much broader market.

>>115979949
Not him, but Gundam as an overall influence has become it's own entity, if you will. No one is watching mechshit #2891 has saying "Gundam fucking did that first!", it's just a given at this point.

As far as the new series go, no one besides Gundam fans give a shit. I speak for America though, I don't know how Japan responds to the newer series.

>>115979789
Best post in the whole thread

>>115980068
More like Frank Miller

>>115980068
is Anno the evangelion of anime?

>>115979995
>He is literally rehashing Evangelion.
>He has plans to LITERALLY rehash Nausicaa.
It's ok, he's only saving up money... right?

>>115979856
Yeah, he's calling for it while he's being a hypocritical dick. He isn't mocking anyone, he's desperately trying to keep his audience on the leash with a rehash of the same shit. He's someone who happened to get lucky when he was inspired by something real and has since pandered to the fanservice audience.

>>115980068
Alan Moores beard is better

>>115979789
>pretentious shit
No one with standards would like pretentious shit, just like they wouldn't like shameless pandering. Just because someone has some form of standards doesn't mean they're a hipster.

>>115979999
Serial Experiments Lain not only opened my eyes…it literally changed my life. I've experienced the whole series many times, always letting it probe my mind to provoke thoughts I didn't know existed. If you want to know what Lain is like, watch it, or rather let it watch you. After studying the series for a while I became deeply interested in computers, computer science, philosophy, mind-expansion, and theory.

I related to Lain on such a personal level that the show almost seemed to transcend the subtext of it just being a work of fiction. But then again Serial Experiments Lain blurs the thin boundary that is reality and the virtual. The concepts and information shown at parts is very much worth looking into as well (E.I. Shuman resonance (commonly)7.83Hz). The integration into the story seems entirely possible in the future. The concept of the wired is in itself one of the most intriguing and glorious things i've ever heard of. Cyberpunk nirvana I suppose would be a way of looking at it. I could write for days on this work of art, but i'll limit myself here. If you do decide to watch it, you must commit to the whole series, or you'll probably be confused or misled. The series comes full circle like i've rarely seen any other do before.

On a side note, the series is also an incredible psychonaut tool.

>>115979846
They don't seem to understand how an industry works, for some reason. It's not a fucking art collective. There are no aristocrats or churches patronizing anime studios. It exists to make money. It makes me suspicious that most of this thread is underage.

>>115979960
>anime is primarily an adaptation based medium
Yeah but it doesn't have to be, dickhead.

>>115979999
>I'd rather have rec threads
Spot the cancerous tumor, everyone

>>115977085
I'm only interested if another Angel's Egg can be born out of this shit. In short, I only care about the soundtrack.

>>115980010
Oh right. But then again it's the only one with a lazy slowpoke of an author and a lack of a team to work on an anime of it. Fuck.

>>115979949

>You're seriously going to try to argue that Gundam has had zero influence outside of itself?

No. Because that wasn't my argument.

Star Trek also influenced tons of things. But other shows are still more popular than Star Trek.

Its the same for Gundam. It influenced tons of other shows (including Eva). But Eva still eclipsed it in popularity.

>>115979856
>any opinion I don't share is edgy
You just being retarded manchildren who doesn't understand that every year there's a new people starting and quiting watching anime, and many of them don't care about what was not only in past, but few months ago.

>>115979844
Not that anon, but you're a fucking idiot.

The vague and pointless trivia about Curse of EVA does not overshadow the fact that it's only visible and so-far shown effect is keeping the pilots younger.

Younger just like the masses of otaku like it. Plotwise and storywise the "curse" has no effect whatsoever.

It's to make money off otaku.

>>115980120
Is this pasta?

>>115979922
Seriously stop giving Eva fans a bad name with your shit.

>>115980120
>On a side note, the series is also an incredible psychonaut tool.
Go on...

>>115980120
Yeah, it doesn't really do that.
It did make me a lot more interested in early computing though. That stuff is pretty cool.

>>115980014
You miss the point. If you disagree with what Anno is saying here, you are supporting the worst anime every season. You're opposing creativity and supporting boring generic shit that nobody actually likes.

>>115980026
It will only be worse anon, until a true gem is found.

>>115980090
>Hardly anyone remembers it anymore.
This is just simply not true. I wore a fucking Gouf shirt the other day, all it was was a picture of a Gouf, some obscure zeon grunt suit from 38 years ago. I got stopped 3 times about it in an hour by gundam fans. It was pretty incredible.

>>115980107
Enjoy your Rebuild of Nausicaa.

btw now Kushana is the main character

Nausicaa is Caska 3.0

>>115978185
>what risks do you want them to take?
Something other than light novel adaptations

>>115979995
IT'S OKAY WHEN TOMINO DOES IT

5 TV series sequels
8 recap movies
2 stand alone movies
1 short films

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Since we're talking about creativeness in anime, let me tell you that in my opinion, K-On is the pinnacle of what an anime needs to have to be successful or in the very least intriguing. To me the series hit a personal note because of the whole "being accepted by society" aspect. What I found so amazing about the series in general was it's ability to cross the boundaries that others would not, all for the sake of preserving the general message it was tryingto get across. It struck a note in my heart, which sounds too overdramatic when I write it but it truly did. It shows that no matter how far a person can be hated, love can always shine through the darkness; kindness of heart and soul can pierce and corner the hearts of even the most wicked people, and forgiveness is always an option. It truly portrays emotion in a way that no other series could because it was willing to push the limits; not only of what is acceptable in the anime, but also what we are willig to accept in the real world. It captures the essence that though people can be different, everyone, nay, everything in this world searches for acceptance somewhere. We all wish to be part of some bigger picture, and some are willingto go to extremes to obtain that acceptance. But just because we put others through Hell for our own goals does not mean we are not beyond being forgiven or even accepted. The flaws are looked past in order to reach the good that truly hides within all hearts and souls.

That is what I think of the series K-On.
To this date, K-On continues to be my favorite Anime series.

>>115980040
>neo

You are the problem.

>>115979960
When normalfags say they want "creativity" it means they want another shounen action anime, not anything actually creative.

>>115980171
You should learn how to form a coherent sentence before trying to debate anything. Go back to MAL, you dumb shit.

>>115980187
You're the one giving them a bad name moron. You're actually defending shit writing and horrible plot devices.

So much for the "deep" EVA when it's pretty much moeshit.

>>115980214
I just hope Japanese otaku will not become illiterate before it's found.

>>115980053
Learn what the word IS means retard.

>>115980034
Anime sales and merchandise sales are higher than they have been in any previous decade. Also despite the circlejerk it is expanding overseas. Yes Dragon Ball Z and Sailormoon were more popular than anything released today but that was it. We now have more foreigners following the regular seasons than ever before and anime has actually become a fairly normal hobby in the west.

This magical period where anime was popular with normals never existed. You are deluded.

>>115980117
> shameless pandering
Newsflash: Everything is also a form of pandering

>>115980225

>by gundam fans

Exactly. Now do the same thing with a Cowboy Bebop or Dragon Ball shity. And get stopped by 100 tryhard posers wanting to obsess over those series.

>People seriously arguing against more variety

No one's saying everything needs to be 'hipster and/or normalfag" shit and it's just fucking daft to argue against encouraging a wider variety of shows and perspectives instead of just regurgitating the same shit over and over.

>>115979995
>A couple of shorts which are literally drops in the ocean of the anime industry

Who knows. Hell, Gainax was created partly as a result of a 'couple of shorts'. Perhaps some extremely talented people get noticed because of a new Daicon sort of thing.

>>115980274
I watch anime for the "deep". If I wanted well structured stories I would read a book.

>>115980120
>>115980242
What's going on?

>>115979844
>>115980187
Are you seriously suggesting the Curse of EVA shenanigans isn't a mere marketing ploy?

>>115980240
It's not OK, but there's more originality to what Tomino does than what Anno does.

It's as if Tomino would remake Gundam 1979 with the same characters, the same names, and he'd start the story over again every time too. The changes that are made are pointless except to pander to whatever Tomino would feel like at the time.

Anno is just that much worse.

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>>115980138
You know what I mean. I don't give a shit about newfags coming here as long as they have better taste than half of /a/, and lurk a bit. How delusional do you have to be to not realize how shitty /a/'s tastes can be?

>>115980255
So because SnK is popular, basically everyone wants that? Do you even understand what you're saying?

>>115980260
>muh English

You so mad. I'm laughing at you.

>>115980312
BUT MUH NORMALFAGS!!!

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BRRREEEEAASSTOH FIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

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>>115979960
My question is why are you so opposed to the idea of anything being different?

Your adaptions aren't going anywhere no matter what so what's the big deal?

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>>115980301
Sure, but stuff like this is garbage.

>>115980312
Except this all looks like generic random garbage.

>>115980297
>This magical period where anime was popular with normals never existed. You are deluded.
Nobody said such thing. They told you anime wasn't always adaptation-based and it certainly doesn't need to be so just because you like to call other normalfags.

>>115980274
Rebuild has definite message and an underlying narrative structure, it wasn't just made on the brim to pander to otaku. It's more like a bait and switch.

I suspect 3.33 + 1.11 will tie some things up nicely yet still result in a massive amount of otaku asshurt, much like EoE did when it first debuted.

>>115980312
Of course I would argue against more variety. The variety you want is total garbage and will destroy the industry because no one will buy it. If you dont like anime in its current state just leave.

>>115980351
Are you implying Crimsons is not amazing?

>>115980351
I wish mods would start banning general threads.

There's so many its disgusting.

>>115980423
But that's moot's favorite anime

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>This thread

>>115979065

I think the point being made is simply that anime has pretty much plateaued this year. It's the most profitable year on record but even the industry big wigs are considered about sustainability now and arguing that anime might be facing a crisis as early as 2016 with just a lack of incoming new animators, lack of creative talents and just kind of being unsure of where the next big title or leap forward in the industry is going to come from. The current era has been very good to a lot of people, but the consensus that it's kind of coming to an end and there's no further room for growth with the current model the industry has been following for about a decade now and that there's going to be another recession for the market like there was in 2009 very soon. Not anime dying out, just hitting an impasse.

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>>115979826
>It's a solid no-bullshit dark fantasy series with a good OST and occasionally awesome animation.

>>115980318
Who knows? We do. Gainax was a small studio formed in a different time by several people.

Khara is a industry behemoth currently in ownership of one of it's most lucrative and well-known franchises.

Some small shorts, which there are copious amount of already (you just don't notice them or pay attention to anything but the mainstream stuff) isn't changing one single thing.

Anno complaining about the industry seems more like a ploy to have people buy more merchandise and anime out of guilt.
Because he's not helping, he's ruining his one magnificent 90's hit and is threatening to do the same with Ghibli's Nausicaa.

>>115980254
>parasite takes over its host
>no host, you are the problem
K I'm out, thanks for convincing me.

>>115980436
>The variety you want is total garbage and will destroy the industry because no one will buy it.
We have an expert here, people. Make a way.