Are they annoyed that it’s catering more and more to creepy isekai slave harem and loli shit?
On a side note, most modern isekai give me the impression of catering to an ever increasingly capitalism fatigued society. People are so desperate to escape and I see isekai taking advantage of that in a rather unhealthy way, whisking the self-insert protagonist away to a world where he is the dominator of others. I find myself disliking most modern anime that people recommend to me because a lot of it has leaned hard into the worst tropes of the genre. That’s not to say that all modern anime is bad and that old anime didn’t have the same problems, but I’m finding the ones that get popular seem to all be shit I hate lol.
Cells at Work looks cute tho
I’m watching another isekai tonight instead of sleeping because I can’t sleep ever and I just wanna say the next greatest crime in anime is CHEAP, SHIT CGI. I’m watching Arifureta and while it’s by no means the most problematic thing here it’s just. So. Bad. Most of the monsters have been animated so far but then there’s a giant scorpion that just looks like dogshit. Then the next Big Boss is a huge hydra that would be pretty menacing if it didn’t look like a child’s first attempt at rendering something in 3D.
What the fuck goes through someone’s head making it look like this (if you think it doesn’t look that bad, it looks 100x worse in motion)
Yes I know the answer is “it’s cheap and profitable” but my fucking god.
I almost wonder if it’s some weird aesthetic thing because every anime now seems to do this. Decent to beautiful animation for characters and backgrounds, and then suddenly unholy early 2000s videogame monsters come stomping through.
yeah idk but it is such a shit, stupid decision
:geordi-no: spend a little more, make something that stands up and looks good now and forever?
or
:geordi-yes: make a moment that’s supposed to be a tense battle for survival into a farce because the big bad looks literally worse than a gen 1 Playstation could muster because it will save a few bucks?
I was going to recommend Reincarnation of a Bookworm but like the main character with vast knowledge on how to create books and has magic capabilities is nothing more than a libertarian.
She is born into a poor family, sees and hears regularly that nobles are able to do whatever and the peasants cannot fo anything. Yet she’s born with an insane amount of magic is capable of bringing books to the masses, has several run ins with death due to mobility. Yet, yet she allows herself to be adopted by a prince/king and will. Use her knowledge for the betterment of the nobilty rather than starting a revolution.
Like legit its shown that the city state (or country) shes in lacks magically powerfully nobles, and her power is so massive that many other extremely powerful nobles fully capitulate to several of her demands at several points in the story. Hell its mentioned the country recently had either a civil war or mass exodus of powerful individuals and now are scraping the bottom of the barrel for magical users for use in their knights order. But rather than seeing this as “hey I may be so powerful that if rn I catch off guard the kingdoms 2 OP trump cards because they respect me I could just steamroll this empire because they lack power due to a recent civil war” and freeing her family from the caste just joins higher caste because hey that’ll allow her to have books!
Edit: I was going to recommend because I actually really liked and enjoyed the anime but as I began to write my thoughts about the plot I actually began hating it lol. Still a good slop with good world building which I love in stories
Yes libertarian by modern standards. She ends up running an orphanage and only the children who work in either gathering supplies for her, or making the books she wants get to eat. Granted they are only able to get the funds to eat by selling the books she’s a god send to those children.
They were literally just dying and starving while the church didn’t give two shits before her. And luckily many of those children now know how to read and write because of her and may have a chance at being writers for nobility rather than dying as 7yrs old.
Maybe the writer will have a time skip and she’ll start a revolution once her health improves but idk isekai always have that :lea-why: feel .
Okay maybe so in the manga or light novel. But in her anger state from what I’ve seen in the anime, she could go all Darth Vader and force choke the entirety of the nobility shown. It seems to take setup time to put up a barrier while the choke is essentially instantly.
And I’ll grant you her fragile health would make a revolution difficult for her currently, but her mind is mid-20’s to early-30’s. She kind of accepted that this how society is and not want to change it drastically. The only changes we’ve seen have been in ways that further her only goal of getting more books. Sure that ended up saving a few dozen orphans from starving, but Myne bringing forth “modern” book manufacturing process could very easily bring forth a cultural revolution. Thats substantially more change than I could do if say I was isekai’d.
i’ve tried asking Japanese people at bars about anime during the times I’ve been to Japan. And at least from the situation of some random foreigner with broken Japanese in a bar asking them what shows they like, the answer was universally “Yeah I used to watch some when I was younger.” Most people were surprised I even knew what anime was, they didn’t seem to know it was popular overseas. When I asked what they used to watch it was almost always Doraemon, Dragonball, and Sailor Moon. If they’ve seen anything newer it was Attack on Titan or Demon Slayer. They were surprisingly mainstream in their tastes.
One person just laughed, said anime is for kids, so I gave them a “oh, wakarimashita.” (understandable)
I had a feeling that was the case. Interesting. I guess Otaku are the Japanese equivalent of Disney adults lol
If you look at the stats, the average Japanese anime watcher is probably a child or a teen. The “core market” is people on their 20s because that’s the only demographic that watches a lot of anime and has any independent disposable income. Viewership drops off steadily with age.
https://www.f-ism.net/report/anime_mkt_2017_sammary.html
This bears out if you look at lists of earnings or viewership in Japan, with most of the top 10 being dominated by tame family friendly stuff like Demon Hunter, Detective Conan, Spy x Family, One Piece, Etc. Only number 10 on the list below (Quintessential Quintuplets) is a harem show, and that one is pretty tame (or so I’ve heard).
Also interestingly, the Isekai wave seems to be slowing down a lot, with Shield Hero, Overlord, and Re:Zero being the only recent releases to gain much traction, and they’re all continuations of previously established series.
Essentially, most Japanese anime watchers don’t engage online in English so most English speakers’ impressions of what’s popular or not is influenced by other English-speaking weebs.
Essentially, most Japanese anime watchers don’t engage online in English so most English speakers’ impressions of what’s popular or not is influenced by other English-speaking weebs.
I’ve always found it funny how Japanese people are low key celebrities to non-Japanese anime or manga fans. English speaking Japanese folks could easily be celebrities without trying too hard. And unfortunately the easiest way to do it would be to cater to Western chuds.
5 years ago it was creepy isekai magical battle school. This time it’s slave harem (althought no as much as it seems like, there’s only like one of those each season).
This is just a trend, it will pass and we will get some new creepy incel fantasy.
