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I'll write a brief summary of what I know about the Kemono Friends debacle so far.
From the beginning
  • Kadokawa wants to make KF into a huge franchise like Love Live.
  • They put anime into production while game is out.
  • The game flops so they just dump the rest of the money onto Yaoyorozu and tell them to finish the anime. Gives them complete creative freedom.
  • Tatsuki, the director, scriptwriter, 3D modeler, animator and scenario writer lays a golden egg with the anime, making it fun and mysterious.
  • Tatsuki makes a few bonus episodes, including two ads.
This week
  • Kadokawa goes into greed mode and fires Tatsuki, as to why is left to speculation. Some think it's because Kadokawa wanted to take Tatsuki's creative freedom away.
  • Tatsuki announces his firing on twitter and there's a huge uproar, even trending #1 globally on twitter for a while.
  • Major companies jump on the Kadokawa shit flinging fest as well.
  • Kadokawa goes into damage control mode and says Yaoyorozu made content without permission.
Today
  • JRA and Nissin, the two companies that partnered with Yaoyorozu to make KF ads, say Kadokawa had given them permission to make the ads.
  • Voice actors of the show made to apologize for this whole thing on live stream.
  • Another giant uproar, with 'Seiyuu shielding' trending on twitter.
Am I missing anything?
 
Wasn't the game still alive when the anime came out? Oh! Shit it all makes perfect sense...
 
Pretty sure this is a question that's been on some folks' minds lately.

 
Steamboat_Bill said:
First it was world literature anime, now it's mecha anime... what's next on the chopping block?
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Someone in the comments and one of my brothers just about a week or two ago said martial arts is practically dormant in anime and manga now, and that's raw martial arts. Everything's done with supernatural/magical powers now. Even Dragon Ball has fallen into that category in that they rely too much on super powers instead of their own physical, personal strengths you'd see in older shows like Fist of the North Star. Though that discussion with my brother mostly came to be because I mentioned you don't get manly protagonists anymore.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Someone in the comments and one of my brothers just about a week or two ago said martial arts is practically dormant in anime and manga now, and that's raw martial arts. Everything's done with supernatural/magical powers now. Even Dragon Ball has fallen into that category in that they rely too much on super powers instead of their own physical, personal strengths you'd see in older shows like Fist of the North Star. Though that discussion with my brother mostly came to be because I mentioned you don't get manly protagonists anymore.
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I blame One Piece for mangas downfall tbh. :runs:
 
Hui said:
I blame One Piece for mangas downfall tbh. :runs:
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Eh, more people seem to point toward Naruto and Bleach for why shounen manga is the way it is now (there was a review on the now-defunct Viz Media forums about why Naruto is the beginning of the end of shounen manga as we know it--I saved it on a Word document that I was planning on posting up here eventually, someday, for something), but One Piece has set the bar pretty high for this generation, much like how Dragon Ball did in the 80s and 90s. Can't blame people for trying to imitate its success but not getting it.

Super Eyepatch Wolf did a neat analysis on Shounen Jump that I think would help explain what's up with shounen manga lately, and on top of that, his Bleach video could be like a footnote on the industry (he did a video on Naruto as well, but I don't think I've watched it for some reason...). There's probably other videos out there explaining the state of modern manga and when it might've happened, but one thing is for certain that despite any questionable quality that's come out, manga sales haven't dropped at all, they're just going digital more and more.

 
Kari Kamiya said:
Someone in the comments and one of my brothers just about a week or two ago said martial arts is practically dormant in anime and manga now, and that's raw martial arts. Everything's done with supernatural/magical powers now. Even Dragon Ball has fallen into that category in that they rely too much on super powers instead of their own physical, personal strengths you'd see in older shows like Fist of the North Star. Though that discussion with my brother mostly came to be because I mentioned you don't get manly protagonists anymore.
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Fist of the North Star has a lot more in common with modern seinen than shonen, really. If it ran today it would have been a drastically different series, probably have a lot more lighthearted overtones. For the sake of fairness however to really make your series stand out you gotta get wild, it's the problem of escalation that really bogs down shonen. The successful path for shonen is always moving forward, positive growth, and escalation, which is why tournaments are so prevalent in the genre because it's basically the perfect example of that. Even FotNS fell prey to this in the last half of the story after Raoh's death when it became less about martial arts and more about superpowered martial arts.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Someone in the comments and one of my brothers just about a week or two ago said martial arts is practically dormant in anime and manga now, and that's raw martial arts. Everything's done with supernatural/magical powers now. Even Dragon Ball has fallen into that category in that they rely too much on super powers instead of their own physical, personal strengths you'd see in older shows like Fist of the North Star. Though that discussion with my brother mostly came to be because I mentioned you don't get manly protagonists anymore.
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The last martial arts manga I read was mostly raw but when the hiatus is over it might unfortunately go the way of Dragon Ball and have people shoot lazers out of their hands seeing as how the power creep was progressing.
 
i've been recently looking up magical girl anime (more specifically from the era they were most popular in from the 80s-90s but any is fine), does anyone have one to recommend?
 
Top Diaper Crinkler said:
i've been recently looking up magical girl anime (more specifically from the era they were most popular in from the 80s-90s but any is fine), does anyone have one to recommend?
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*cracks knuckles*

Alien 9
Princess Tutu
Magical Play
D4 Princess
Nurse Witch Komugi
Hyperdoll: Mew & Mica the Easy Fighter (Goofy's voice actor's in the dub, I'm not kidding)
Shamanic Princess
Magical Witch Punie-Chan
Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou (not old, but it's unfairly hated on)
And for the lulz, Hyper Speed GranDoll. Watch it dubbed for a villain with a Paul Lynde impression, trust me, you won't regret it.
 
If you're looking for one specifically from the 80s and 90s... Minky Momo, perhaps? It dates from the early 80s, and it's an influential classic in its genre.
 
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