Do you ever see Western entertainment shaking off and bouncing back from wokeness or do you think we're about to see a repeat of what happened to the American automotive industry in the 1980s?
I mean we know this shit is unpopular here which is why Japan is gaining more and more of a foothold in the American market.
I think it'll just happen until they fold. There will always be people who want to consoom and never get bored of capeshit. Like you're a dumb faggot if you're buying comics. They're a shadow of what they once were and only indie comics nowadays can hold a candle to manga because they're telling new and unique stories, not rehash after rehash after rehash. Yeah, I don't need to read the 10,000 version of Batman, thank you.
Its hard, as the left has always been fully entrenched in entertainment, but it was different because they were always pushing the envelope. Which is why American pop culture grew all over the world. Even though Hollywood has been super fucking liberal, it never really impinged on creativity as they were always fighting with the MPAA. Now, they just want to pump out safe, flavorless shit en masse. The progtard shit got the old boomers erect because they thought they could capture every demo known to man and fuck anyone who didn't like it.
Their arrogance basically has destroyed Star Trek, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, the Comic Industry, pretty much every fandom on Earth...so...*shrugs*
I think its just got to burn itself out. Progressivisim just has to eventually wear out its welcome, because everything is starting to splinter apart. More people are backing Kickstarter comics than buying them from Marvel or DC. Japanese and even European games are outselling American ones. Nobody cares about blockbusters anymore. Comics are basically a dead medium unless you go indie. They're basically stock paper advertisements for movies.
The progressiveness and wokeness is marked by self-righteousness. Which is why "Fuck the audience, do it this way" has been the pop culture mantra in the past couple of years. It doesn't matter how much they lose or how much they destroy, they're right and you're wrong. Not to mention they dislike capitalism anyway and really don't care about money. Only when the money runs out and they're forced to sell off properties or get laid off. Meanwhile the only thing they can do about how badly they are losing is to badmouth the competition, which hasn't ever worked. Especially with anime. And anime fans HATE censorship and will happily pirate away from American companies. Or buy blu-rays.
There are two ways, Western man: 1) The people in charge go hard in on their writers. No more political stories. No more joining Twitter mobs. Do not create propaganda, create new and innovative stories. This is less likely because it is harder. 2) Continue to bleed out in the street until the money runs dry and the properties are bought by another entertainment company. This entertainment company is woke too. Then that company will bleed out. This will continually repeat until everyone woke is fucking unemployed or in charge of nothing, or all major properties just end up in the hands of banks and holding companies and are basically leased out to whoever wants to make something because everyone went broke shitting on their audience.
I also think as a whole, people are universally fucking tired about hearing diversity and representation in their fantasy lives and being scolded for what they want. So they throw up their hands and go 'Fuck it, I'm watching anime. Everyone there in Japan is Japanese so I don't have to hear this shit.'
Honestly, ngl, I feel like this is more of a pushback against South Korea more so than the west. South Korean webtoons have been pushing along steadily for a while now, and they have the advantage of hitting digital harder. However, they're much more conservative when it comes to porn and violence (one of the reasons, iirc, that the artist of Dr. Stone, Boichi, moved to Japan). So I wouldn't be surprised to learn that by making edgier content, they're hoping to keep their control over the rest.
More of a dab on the west as an extra, imo.
I don't know how anyone reads webtoons. A single panel is fucking obnoxious and triggering. Also yeah, they're conservative as fuck.
Agreed, up to a point. I think Japanese anime companies didn't even consider the issue of the Western streaming services because the market was a lower priority and at least some of them were probably coasting on contracts from before "Current Year"
The "War on Anime" SJW autism was always there but didn't really start to ramp up until 2019 or so. The Weeb Wars began that year but more importantly the MCU finally hit its peak while the woke reboots from the different studios began to bomb even harder. COVID-19 has also added a lot more fuel to the trash fire and a lot of companies are panicking. I'd say Disney is the one that is most adamant against anime and manga getting a larger foothold in America since Marvel is their bread and butter and it's the only one of Iger's grand conquests that actually paid off in the long run. The MCU is primed for a downfall and the capeshit fad will die out with it, and Disney will no longer be the invincible titan it was in the 2010's.
At least Warner has Toonami and Crunchyroll while Sony has Funimation and Aniplex, Disney has nothing like that because they've never needed it all that much.
The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker did avoid becoming box office bombs but they both really underperformed and basically killed one of the biggest media franchises in history. The Fox buyout was massive and they've not fully digested all the debt from it.
Unless Disney decides to change course on anime and makes deals like their old Studio Ghibli distribution deal and tries to focus more on Kingdom Hearts as a franchise, they're the ones who are most likely to get hit the hardest if we get a second Anime Boom.
As for the studios in Japan, they're seeing a lot of new potential in these markets and will gladly follow the money. The only foreign censors I could see them bending the knee for would be China
The war on anime is old. I think its a lost cause, because it is alien to Western morality, Japan really, REALLY doesn't care what outsiders think and nearly all of anime is still basically made for the Japanese. Warner is actually looking to sell Crunchyroll to Sony because AT&T cost them a fuckton of money and now they're in the hole. Hope to God they don't.
Disney does NOT want anime because they make cartoons and it is basically poised to rape the MCU (The MCU I think is fucked, I looked at their 'plan' and its completely directionless). There's no real sense of build up anymore. Manga works better because it isn't endless. It does have an ending to it eventually. Maybe, MAYBE they'll get a sequel or a spinoff, but generally the series ends and you move on to something new.
It isn't Batman or Spiderman or the X-Men rehashed 500,000 times. There is only so much of that you can do, and comics have been doing it for their entire existence. Not to mention they basically told their core demo to eat shit and comic shops everywhere are dying.
The problem is Disney does not want to compromise on 'adult' anything. They always play it safe. Sure, you always know they'll produce flavorless gruel, but that's all it is. I don't think I'm interested in a single Disney property anymore.
Black Widow movie? She's fucking dead. Who cares what happens in the movie, because none of it matters. Pass.
Dr. Strange 2? Not a horror movie. More amusement park ride. Pass.
The Eternals? Cramming as much LGBTQQQ shit in as possible with boring as fuck characters. Pass.
Female Thor? I've seen what they do to female heroes, plus Tessa Thompson is fucking obnoxious. Pass.
Anime and Manga offer me so much more diverse shit. I can watch a turn my brain off series like Uzaki, Fan-service shit like Jet Girls, serious sci-fi thriller with Psychopass, Dark Fantasy with Goblin Slayer and Isekai with a lot. Disney offers the same, safe, bland, boring garbage over and over and over again.
And for China they'll just do what they do now, make an anime they might like and just throw black bars or bars of light over the naughty bits and call it a day.
I don't have much interest in that healer series getting an anime adaption, don't expect it to be much above the level of schlock that has a heavily censored broadcast release so people buy the Blu-rays. I'm very picky about my edge for the sake of edge series and I ended up getting bored and dropping this one. Just seems like another show that people claim is better than it actually is just because it'll offend people they don't like. I don't expect it to be a very memorable series, probably be better than Arifureta god awful adaption, but it'll just end up chucked into the obligatory mediocre seasonal isekai adaption. If it manages to escape either fate I'll be surprised, might at least been fun checking out the /a/ threads on it though it might be one of the seasonal shows that shitposters decide to infest.
There are a bunch of other isekai/non-isekai manga/LN I'd rather see adapted or given a second season but they rarely get picked.
What was bad about the Arifureta adaption?
So I read that trashy edgelord manga and I have to wonder if emo-rance's rapey rape-revenge antics are gonna be the only thing the sjws piss their pants over.
See there's this bit where the demons and the humans are living in this city in harmony, and the
feds royals decide that's inconvenient for the war and plunder grift and this town needs to go so MC's next amoral rape target tries to initiate a race riot and have the city racewar themselves to rubble, planting provocateurs on both sides and everything. But Rapey McRaperson outsmarts her by utilizing the first girl he raped and brainwashed to convince the populace (and even some of the soldiers iirc) to turn against the empire and not each other and their city. I'm not sure when these chapters were released, and it's clearly not 1 to 1, but having the MC get genuinely mad about businesses getting destroyed and race wars in the same arc sounds like commentary on current events to me. Or at least a general commentary on this sort of thing. It might not be either, but it's gonna get perceived that way. I wonder what the reaction will be from the usual suspects. Will it be "How dare you racist white supremacist gooks glamorize avoiding race riots with love and understanding"? Or will they see it as "whitey finally gets it and helps the black man kill the police".
Also I like how the MC desperately wants to be an amoral psycho pretending to be a hero, but he just ends up prioritizing hero shit half the time and his selfish plans just help innocent people and punish the evil anyways. It's like
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but with rape.
Its supposed to be inadvertent hero shit but seriously, the guy doesn't need to go apeshit with his revenge when he reverses the world. I think it would have been a better story for him to pretend to do it, and slowly tear the party apart with inner turmoil, like being some mastermind, just causing the heroes to outright start killing each other at the end. That seems more fun to me and justifies his revenge. Of course it wouldn't have rape.
But its edgelord shit that tries to make you sympathize with him somehow. Like, "Manga, I know what you're doing, but he just had a woman raped and eaten to death. I mean, seriously bro." I don't see it as a commentary because its just so over the top on everything.
It also is irritating to me because nobody shows nipples, but he'll show graphic rape and torture.
Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi is trash. It's a twisted version of Slayers meets Goblin Slayer. I don't see how it'll work as an anime because its just going to end up as another Interspecies Reviewers controversy.
I mean I never said it was good. Its just really fucking terrible and I'm just astonished at how over the top everything is. Like, he rewound time. He erased his own past. You literally have nothing to revenge against. If they're horrible people, then wait for them to do horrible shit and murder them. I can't even get on board with the basic concept.
