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Sounds like committees....animes tend to have a visionary person who writes the core story and characters..... Hollywood is filled with board rooms of groups w

Sounds like committees....animes tend to have a visionary person who writes the core story and characters..... Hollywood is filled with board rooms of groups who are all incentivized in a way to 'get buy in' through concessions.... the first concession is the art...the vision.... then the talent.... then it's all down hill from there

lmm 2y ago
> Sounds like committees....animes tend to have a visionary person who writes the core story and characters..... Funny, I've heard the exact opposite complaint a lot, that every anime in the last 20 years is made by committee and that's why the vast majority of anime are just slavish adaptations of already-successful manga, and even the few original anime projects that happen tend to be retreads of genre cliches.
- Filligree 2y ago
  Slavish recreations of already-successful manga at least have the benefit that there's a lot of manga. So as a viewer, you get variety regardless.
- theshrike79 2y ago
  "Last 20 years" is a pretty sweeping statement. Like there are no auteur anime since 2004?
  - lmm 2y ago
    That's the complaint I've heard; I suspect it's slightly exaggerated. But the last real auteur anime I can think of is 2002's Voices of a Distant Star, and Shinkai has followed up by retreading the same ground over and over (thematically at least) ever since.
gizmo686 2y ago
Anime tends to have a pipeline. A lone auther (possibly with an illustrator) writes a light novel. Popular light novels get a manga adaptation. Really popular ones get an anime. At this point, I'm half convinced that most anime is made as an advertisement to sell more books. This pipeline isn't exactly unique to anime. The book -> movie pipeline is very real in western media. The big difference I have noticed is actually that anime makers tend to be less visionary than western movie makers, and instead give you a much more faithful translation of the source material to the TV screen; whereas Hollywood adaptations tend to take much more creative liberty (usually for the worst).

lmm 2y ago

> Sounds like committees....animes tend to have a visionary person who writes the core story and characters..... Funny, I've heard the exact opposite complaint a lot, that every anime in the last 20 years is made by committee and that's why the vast majority of anime are just slavish adaptations of already-successful manga, and even the few original anime projects that happen tend to be retreads of genre cliches.

Filligree 2y ago
Slavish recreations of already-successful manga at least have the benefit that there's a lot of manga. So as a viewer, you get variety regardless.
theshrike79 2y ago
"Last 20 years" is a pretty sweeping statement. Like there are no auteur anime since 2004?
- lmm 2y ago
  That's the complaint I've heard; I suspect it's slightly exaggerated. But the last real auteur anime I can think of is 2002's Voices of a Distant Star, and Shinkai has followed up by retreading the same ground over and over (thematically at least) ever since.

gizmo686 2y ago

Anime tends to have a pipeline. A lone auther (possibly with an illustrator) writes a light novel. Popular light novels get a manga adaptation. Really popular ones get an anime. At this point, I'm half convinced that most anime is made as an advertisement to sell more books. This pipeline isn't exactly unique to anime. The book -> movie pipeline is very real in western media. The big difference I have noticed is actually that anime makers tend to be less visionary than western movie makers, and instead give you a much more faithful translation of the source material to the TV screen; whereas Hollywood adaptations tend to take much more creative liberty (usually for the worst).