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It's not an entirely unheard of theme. Farscape has the human in quarantine until they do a full workup of the microbiology inhabiting him
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Fair, I just found it very jarring since the last 50 chapters had been chill farmlife plus some budding love.
Gantz falls in here as well. All series with a compelling premise that go to shit the moment you peek behind the curtain. All 3 would have benefitted from shorter lengths and not bothering to explain the rules of the world.
Just putting up a dystopian/nightmare scenario with some solid characters and seeing how they cope with it is more than enough sometimes.
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This is dragging on. I'll stay disagree, I mean I don't think you change my opinion nor I change yours.
But it's amusing to me somehow you put JJK, Chainsawman, Sakamoto Days, Spy X Family, Hero Academia and Kagurabachi the same. Even that one baseball guy at the end.
It's even more amusing with two guys sandwicching Yuji from JJK clearly have very different hair design and shadings.
Edit: Maybe I can give you JJK and Chainsawman can be blend together "fine" in some cases.
But from like 4 ex Fujimoto assistants. Now, you can have like Dandadan, Jigoku Paradise - Ayashimon, Spy X Family and recent Centuria running weekly.
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This should be crossposted to the Japanese lolcow thread.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Hideaki Anno wouldn't have lasted long had Evangelion been made today. People lose their fucking minds so easily, even back then, that just talking spoilers (in earshot or on social media posts or whatever) are enough for fans to go berserk. Imagine if episides of NGE or even EoE had gotten leaked.
Aka Akasaka comes off as a fickle dude given how bored he got of Kaguya-sama before it ended and immediately jumped onto Oshi no Ko. I can see him getting hit with depression or his drive to make the manga taking a hit should he get word he has fans assaulting each other over it.
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I can't comprehend how he fucked up the ending of the manga. Hayasaka and Ishigami were robbed of their characterizations and a good ending.
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All one has to do is look to when Japan's (Rothschild derivative) fiat ponzi died in the early 90s and the downfall of quality in many aspects of life since then. The nipponese economy has >>NEVER<< truly recovered since the early 90s, and digital animation only "bandaged the wound" on quality for a few years in the early 2000s before even that began to decline with Inflation/Debasement.
Anyone tracking the economic data can see that Japan has been hurting since the early 90s. When your nation is going to the shitter - artistic quality will Always die along with it. For a long term example of the peaks and valleys of art, look at Roman architecture during the Pax Romana, then compare that to dark age mud huts, then compare those to the great Renaissance painters. Shit like wacom tablets and global communication has helped refine many artists globally over the last couple decades - but global depressions and entropy comes for all quality in every walk of life.
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Have you tried reading something that isn't weekly shounen?
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The manga field is so widely immense, at such ridiculous degree, that trying to label its entirety through a very flawed argument (akin to graphic fidelity on the topic of videogames) and weekly shounen titles as primary examples only highlight your inexperience. And we went through that bit already some weeks ago, monthly-issued manga series are largely different in process (and more manageable for artists overall) than their weekly-issued counterparts.
Tsuneko Maruru to Hachi - Sonoda Yuri (2022 - onwards)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - Murakawa Michio (2013 - onwards)
Tora wa Ryuu wo Mada Tabenai - Hachi Inaba (2022 - onwards)
The Little Match Girl - Suzuki Sanami ( 2014 - 2018 )
Tsukiyo no Toratsugumi - Kasai Uni (2017)
Shinmai Shimai no Futari Gohan - Hiiragi Yutaka (2015 - onwards)
I could provide a lot more examples although my post would end up being insanely long. But I hope you get the gist.
Also, mangas from "less talented" artists existed plenty in numbers before 2013 too, such as Tekkon Kinkreet (1993, Matsumoto Taiyou) and Medarot (1997, Horuma Rin).
I won't say much about animation itself as I'm someone who focuses far more on comics instead.
But the notion that manga is going through some sort of dark age and talent drain, much like the idea that the field was gatekept by "more talented" artists, is both laugheable and out of touch with the reality.
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That epilogue came out in '21. I imagine it didn't attract unwanted attention because (A) it blueballs the yuri crowd by turning a potential lesbian relationship heterosexual and (B) it's a woman turning into a man so the autogynephiles wouldn't get much out of it. I personally don't have a particular problem with it, I just really wasn't expecting it.
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86 chapters into Frieren.
You know, I really didn't like how completely simplistic and underwritten Kimetsu no Yaiba was. But for as basic as its characters and uninspired its motivations were, they at least had gimmicks to their behavior, if not quite full personalities. Everyone in this manga is just so goddamn emotionless and devoid of comprehensible, let alone relatable motivations, and the villains are universally characterized as killbots with no desires who only seek to kill out of racial obligation. This manga feels like what you'd get if a fedora-tipping atheist somehow learned to draw.
You know, I really didn't like how completely simplistic and underwritten Kimetsu no Yaiba was. But for as basic as its characters and uninspired its motivations were, they at least had gimmicks to their behavior, if not quite full personalities. Everyone in this manga is just so goddamn emotionless and devoid of comprehensible, let alone relatable motivations, and the villains are universally characterized as killbots with no desires who only seek to kill out of racial obligation. This manga feels like what you'd get if a fedora-tipping atheist somehow learned to draw.
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Wait, did the power of the kinda big but honestly not too crazy age gap just un-gay that man?
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They really aren't but (a) there's a reason people were calling this series zoomer/autist kryptonite, and (b) sounds like you just aren't far enough in yet. Maybe you should stop reading if you aren't enjoying it but if you continue you might have to apologise later (you won't but it's not really worth debating).
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In regards to degeneration, is Ex-Arm an example of how anime will end up degrading to in the future, or was it just a one-off mistake due to project mismanagement? Or will the degradation get to the point that Cal Art style, or the shit posted in the SJW Art and Extremes thread will end up looking better?
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Id never heard of this garbage before, its a primo asset flip disaster. But no I figure it will be more along the cal arts style but not as flagrantly terrible, it will just be webcomicky with the triangle chin, dot noses, little to no shading, that kinda thing where it starts looking like gachabait or generic twitter art. Calarts was a result of industry skimping and the sjw movement since the industry started spending less and art schools started straying away from visual accuracy due to objectification or some shit, both worked together cohesively. Anime is not like that, if its anything Japs prize on its skill building so they wont stray that much but they will embrace the webcomic style cause its easy to do and relatively less time consuming. My rule of thumb is generally if twitter fan artists can do better artwork than the studio or author, then theyve lost the ball which is very much the case with shounen nowadays. The artistic evolution is interesting though, we went from pronounced noses, proper hatching/shading and colorgrading, well designed eyes and hair, exaggerated physique to dot nose, triangle chin, generic eyes and hair, generic physique, cylindrical limbs and the like.
Also I forgot to mention this but Hayao Miyazakis resentment for the anime genre comes from this as well, the eventual self referential nature of anime/manga creators where the ideas and artstyles become incredibly incestuous and self referential, leading to market saturation and staleness which happens because they stop referencing real life. The thing is that faggot said this in the late 80s in reference to mecha anime which imo is quite varied and skillfully designed but its a lot more applicable to todays shounen ecchi fan servicy crap.
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What the hell is this?! Why are there EIGHT DIGIT NUMBERS in this popularity poll?! How was this poll compiled?!?!?
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It's called the interwebs and Anonymous might've had something to do with it.
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I just saw someone argue that Frieren should be judged as an action shoujo.
Why the fuck are people so eager to make bullshit excuses like this that are so obviously wrong?
Why the fuck are people so eager to make bullshit excuses like this that are so obviously wrong?
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The same people that categorize Black Lagoon as an isekai I guess