This film is the most significant contribution to animation this

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>>156599017
>This film is the most significant contribution to animation this decade
I don't think so.

>>156599017
I'll start by saying Hedgehog in the fog is one of my favorite animated shorts, and I watch it about once a year.

Do you really think The Tale of the Princess Kaguya was ignored in Japan and in the West? It was nominated for an Academy Award for best animated feature film in either 2014 or 2015, has a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I can't remember having ever read anything negative about it. How does that even come close to being ignored?

Sure it doesn't cater to the anime crowd that jerks it furiously to Eromanga-Sensei and thought No Game No Life was the best thing to come out of Japan since Pearl Harbour, but that does NOT mean it has been 'relatively ignored'.

I do think it's a very significant contribution to animation, although there are several other animated movies that has it beat when it comes to substance apart from the gorgeous and unique animation in my opinion. To say it's unparalleled is kind of a stretch, even when comparing it with what's come out only in the last decade. Also, I have no idea how The Overcoat is going to turn out, might be we never get to see it, but to assume it's going to be a masterpiece before the thing is done is a little bit of a stretch.

When it comes to the whole 'why are such terrible circumstances allowed to exist' bit - you do realize that a lot of art that is perceived today as pure genius remained obscure and unrecognized until after the death of the artist, right? This movie has received praise and recognition in spades. Maybe not as much as you feel it deserves based on its merits, and maybe movies and series that are vastly inferior receive more attention and praise than they should.

Enjoy it for what it is, and share it with the people you love. It's certainly a great movie.

My sister saw this because of Naruto.

>>156599931
>Do you really think The Tale of the Princess Kaguya was ignored in Japan and in the West? It was nominated for an Academy Award for best animated feature film in either 2014 or 2015, has a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I can't remember having ever read anything negative about it. How does that even come close to being ignored?
It was a huge flop

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>>156599931
Also, watch Hedgehog in the fog, boys. You deserve it in your life, it takes 15 minutes or so. And don't just have it on on your second monitor while browsing either, take the time and give it your full attention.

>>156600017
Commercial success and being ignored are two completely different things. I totally agree that it deserved to be more successful, but it was absolutely not ignored.

>>156600017
>It was a huge flop
That's not because it was being ignored, that's simply because it was the most expensive movie in anime history to make. It sold $25M, but its budget was $50M. According to Wikipedia, only 25 anime movies have ever made $50M+ at the box office.

>>156600098
Yeah and the ones that aren't from milked franchises are fellow Ghibli movies.

Even Arrietty made more money than Kaguya-hime and no one gives a shit about Arrietty (not saying it's not good, I thought it was great). That's how irrelevant Kaguya-hime was.

>>156600201
>even Arrietty
Anon, Arrietty's like the sixth-best-selling anime movie. Your entire argument is "it was ignored more than some of the most mainstream anime ever made."

>>156600253
It was ignored compared to fellow Ghibli movies. No one went to see it and no one talks about it other than critics.

>>156600297
> compared to fellow Ghibli movies
Comparedto their most popular ones, yes. See my last post - those are some of the most mainstream anime ever made, being ignored "compared to them" is not the same thing as actually being ignored.

>No one went to see it
$25M worth of people went to see it.

>no one talks about it other than critics.
I don't know about what the fuck normalfags talk about, but it comes up here a fair amount.

Animoo was never about anything other than pandering and designing itself as a product merchant.

>>156600346
>using /a/ as your measurement of something's popularity
Might wanna check those Flip Flappers BD sales again

>>156600430
It's a good measurement of the actual anime community.

>>156600098
Why was Kaguya-hime so expensive to make? The animation still had a lot of shortcuts typical of anime despite the high budget. At least the likes of Akira and Steamboy had fuller animation and proper lip-sync.

>>156600493
To cover the funeral costs for the animators who died of brain aneurysms while working on it

>>156599931
Pearl Harbor didn't come out of Japan though.

>>156599017
Why are otaku such a scapegoat? The movie is clearly meant for a general audience to enjoy, not specifically otaku. Otaku alone can't make something popular and well-acclaimed.

>>156600480
>It's a good measurement of the actual anime community.
More like a cheap imitation of an actual anime community.

That's why you saw nobody talking about kemono bronies until the penultimate episode where it started trending on JP twitter.