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> 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
by lmm 3y 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 3y agoSlavish 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 3y ago"Last 20 years" is a pretty sweeping statement. Like there are no auteur anime since 2004?
- lmm 3y agoThat'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.