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[tripleaamin]

Most anime series serves as a commercial to push you to the source material. It’s not envisioned as a stand alone product. Sure the most popular maybe get that respect but most of this stuff is 12 episodes and done.

I highly doubt many of these anime adaptations are profitable on their own beyond all the source material they end up pushing.

I mean it doesn't give an excuse to push dogshyt adaptations that you get from Kadokawa more specifically. Somehow an anime Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy, which imo should be the bare minimum you should expect out of an adaptation is seen as good and above the norm because how awful adaptations can be. Anything from Engi or Project 9 more specially has almost no effort behind it.

Look at Apothecary Diaries. Look how great the anime is. The manga and Ln are selling like hotcakes, S1 did extremely well and S2 is already in production. Also, the anime in 2 cours and adapted only the first 2 books! While this shouldn't be considered the norm by any means, but a great adaptation and anime will push more manga and novel sales than a poor adaptation. The reason being you are invested in the series! Unnamed Memory is considered a top tier Light Novel, buy why would anyone bother reading the Ln if the anime is utter crap?

It's a shytty part of the anime industry that needs to change. Personally I will read the source before an anime airs if it interests me. I did it with Ranger Reject and Mission: Yozakura Family, and both were great! The manga got me excited for both of the anime. The former has me disappointed and the latter has me excited for what will come later in the season.

 

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Oblivion Battery Episode 8

You know they would have never found out about Kazuki if Kei didn't throw a tantrum. His backstory is very relatable. Imagine trying a sport for the first time, and it is very easy to lose your confidence like Kazuki did. But man Shunpei was smart how he wanted to boost Kazuki's confidence. His nerves are off the charts, well put him in a situation where that doesn't affect him. Even adding on top Aoi telling Kazuki that he was in a similar situation. That is big considering we know how talented he is. It gives Kazuki the realization even talented players can suffer through losing their confidence.

The after credits scene was interesting. I assume it's before Kei had amnesia. Wonder what he meant here. Kiyomine is def a dude who is so talented and has such expectation, I can see him not being able to empathize with those who are not that talented.

 

[the elastic]

Which one of you brehs walked in on your son?

 

[winb83]

Sylpha is read deal.

 

[Jmare007]

Most anime series serves as a commercial to push you to the source material. It’s not envisioned as a stand alone product. Sure the most popular maybe get that respect but most of this stuff is 12 episodes and done.

I highly doubt many of these anime adaptations are profitable on their own beyond all the source material they end up pushing.

If the source material is good, it makes no sense to give a shytty effort adapting it because if you do a good job not only do you boost manga/LN sales, you get to reap the rewards with BR sales, which still can be a big source of income in Japan as far as I'm aware.

If you rush and/or give a zero effort animating a manga/novel then there's no benefit either. You ain't getting more manga sales when no one gave a fukk or straight up hated your anime adaptation.

 

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[winb83]

If the source material is good, it makes no sense to give a shytty effort adapting it because if you do a good job not only do you boost manga/LN sales, you get to reap the rewards with BR sales, which still can be a big source of income in Japan as far as I'm aware.

If you rush and/or give a zero effort animating a manga/novel then there's no benefit either. You ain't getting more manga sales when no one gave a fukk or straight up hated your anime adaptation.

Much of the source material is average at best. The profit margins on selling a light novel or manga are way better than on producing an anime. I would imagine it’s like video games where most of the profits publishers make come from a small amount of titles.

The Slimes, AoTs, MHAs, and other ultra popular stuff are given to the prestige studios like Bones or Wit and get extra effort because they know the audience will be there but other fringe works are given to B, C, and D list studios like say J.C. Staff or worse like GoHands and get minimal to no real effort.

You can’t have the best of the best working on the isekai where the guy is reincarnated as a vending machine. At the same time the TV network needs a program to fill that space so rather than gamble on an anime original series they just pick a light novel like that on the chance the publisher they partner with can move units off the series.

 

[tripleaamin]

Much of the source material is average at best. The profit margins on selling a light novel or manga are way better than on producing an anime. I would imagine it’s like video games where most of the profits publishers make come from a small amount of titles.

The Slimes, AoTs, MHAs, and other ultra popular stuff are given to the prestige studios like Bones or Wit and get extra effort because they know the audience will be there but other fringe works are given to B, C, and D list studios like say J.C. Staff or worse like GoHands and get minimal to no real effort.

You can’t have the best of the best working on the isekai where the guy is reincarnated as a vending machine. At the same time the TV network needs a program to fill that space so rather than gamble on an anime original series they just pick a light novel like that on the chance the publisher they partner with can move units off the series.

No one expects everything to look like Demon Slayer and AoT. Unlike with visuals and animation, pacing isn't something that rely on production values. Sure how much budget you can have can affect pacing, but it is not an excuse for bad pacing. Look at Kingdom S1+S2. The one and only thing they did right was pacing and voice acting. Which should be the bare minimum for a given adaptation.

Having awful pacing ruins an adaptation faster than mediocre animation can.

Ranger Reject - 6 vols in 12 episodes
Bottom Tier Tomozaki S2 - 4.5 books in 13 episodes
Dead Mount Death Play - 10 books in 2 cours
Unnamed Memory - 3 dense novels in 1 cour.

Stuff like this just becomes a highlight of moments that has no cohesion to it.

Meanwhile, Helck in an example of how yes the animation was mid and this is something @Jmare007 and I went back and forth on. Animation bothered him too much, while for me, it was tolerable to keep going. But it had all the other great stuff from a great adaptation, top tier storytelling, top tier voice acting, great music and great comedy.

In Helck's case despite the weak production values the pacing was on point, so it gave you a story you to immerse yourself in. For those of that read the manga it gave us the itch continue to read the manga. Point being so many adaptations are LAZY. A lot of the issues in the industry has to do with budget and time. As long as that shyt ain't no Ex-Arm status you can still engage the viewer. But pacing does not completely rely on that. There is still a way to make a decent anime even with a limited budget. Which like Helck as my example can get them invested to read the source if they so choose to.

 

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[Bryan Danielson]

 

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Bell wasn't overpowered in S1

 

[Bryan Danielson]

This look interesting

 

[tripleaamin]

Not too many anime have a focus on Seiyuu's, which is why I like The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio. In episode 9 it tackles the issue where the Mc Yumiko is in trouble finding her rhythm in a new role.

We had a great scene between Kagasaki and Yumiko on how she is acting too hard. I believe with Seiyuu's trying too hard to be the character is an issue. The reason Seiyuu's are great is that they immerse themselves to understand the character and have fun. Which is what Kagasaki wanted out of Yumiko. This show provides really cool insight on Anime seiyuus and what they possibly deal with.

 

[tripleaamin]

Mysterious Disappearances Episode 9

Honestly this has turned into a great supernatural mystery. With light horror added to it.

We got a lil bit last episode, but here we got a full depth view of Nodoka's character. She is a girl of high expectations. Her mom and dad are successful and all the pressure is on her. Quite honestly that tutor said some awful things. Literally telling her to get over whatever is bothering you and get back to work. That's just awful.

Nodoka issues felt very relatable. Having all this pressure on, but there is one thing in your life that you look forward to every day and that can make your day. For her, it is the VTuber Himeuo Yoruman. You can really empathize how it crushes her when she announces her retirement. Unfortunately this being a supernatural series it looks like she came back. Imagine your stans seeing you live after you announce your retirement, they would be overjoyed. So it is at that point when Nodoka and the others got sunk in. At least for Nodoka she hears from Himeuo that she is rooting for her to follow her dreams. This pushes her beyond exhaustion.

Poor Oto you could see how much her friendship with Nodoka means to her even though she has difficulties expressing herself. This curiosity likely being a tsukumogami that was discarded. Hard to put it all together, but is the VTube considered the tsukumogami here? Also, we see a cat keeping an eye on Nodoka and heads back to that Cat Girl. She is definitely involved in someway.

Spoiler: Mysterious Disappearances Ep 9

 

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