What ever happened to the beach episode?

anime went from
>we bought a year of infomercial space! oh fuck what do we even put there?

to
>we bought 12 weeks of infomercial space! oh fuck how do we fit in even a single arc?

based on selling hundreds of dollars of shit to around 50,000 whales rather than selling extra copies of a $3 magazine or $5 paperbacks

What the fuck are you on about, UMI DAs are still very much a thing. Baseball episodes however seem to have gone the way of the Dodos.

>>155585697
I'm sure that sounded cool and intelligent in your head, but ... well try again!

>>155585697
wat

>>155585827
He's right though, there isn't any time to waste in anime anymore. All business, no fun.

There were multiple beach episodes just last season, what the heck is OP talking about?

>>155585806
Key shows still have the,.

>>155585806
They've been relegated to OVA at best for most series.

>>155585827
Push your helmet up so it isn't covering your ears, turn that crayon around so the pointy end is facing the paper, and learn.

Anime isn't made with TV station involvement for the most part. It's made by companies with a product they want to advertise, then they pay the TV station a flat fee to air it - just like ShamWow except for robot models or magical girl transformation wand toys or comic books. That's where your legally-mandated GORAN NO SPONSAA MERRYCHRISTMAS screens come from.

In the old days, companies who made cheap kids' entertainment bought airtime like this. The publishers of those $3 comic books, say. They know they'll have SOMETHING to sell, and even if it isn't very popular or the production gets stuck it's fine to have filler like random beach eps reminding everyone to go out and buy the latest Jump where things are actually happening.

However, nowadays, shows are mostly paid for by ad-hoc consortiums - production committees - who have only come together for that one project and who only want to commit to 12-13 weeks of airtime, which is the shortest block TV stations really want to deal with. (You CAN buy one-shot specials, but it's bullshit expensive.) That's very little time to have a proper dramatic arc, AND the investors want the entire thing planned out before they'll commit anyway. And of course, it only works because very dedicated fans are willing to drop hundreds to thousands of dollars on the one thing they like the best, but they universally hate filler.

We can't go back because there literally aren't enough Japanese children anymore. Even if we could, we'd lose the majority of shows being made.

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Are you retarded