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Is Violet Evergarden as good as all the people gushing over it say it is?
 
Sword Fighter Super said:
Yes, of course! The worst part about ANY media is always the fans.

Fans ruin everything.

Calling them out for it isn't the best way to get your show back, though.
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He's not entirely wrong, otaku can be quite rabid like the stereotype suggests.
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/in...china-for-new-life-anime-cancellation/.132541


Outspoken anime director Yutaka Yamamoto (Wake Up, Girls!, Kannagi) took to Twitter again with a tirade against a new target: the cancellation of the [New Life+] Young Again in Another World anime following the original author's discriminatory remarks against China and Korea. "I'm mad at the cancellation," he said, and added, "Now all it would take is one blow to destroy anime."

Yamakan said several times on Twitter, and in an blog poston Thursday, that he thinks otaku are to blame for "ruining" anime. When the cancellation news broke, he tweeted the hashtag "The Day Otaku Ruined Anime." He claims this is as he predicted, and he further predicted that the industry will fall to disorder because otaku have too much power over the industry.

He characterized otaku as being too flippant about the state of the industry and unable to realize that it affects them. He mentions that even when there were directors leaving projects last year, and now series getting cancelled, otaku don't realize what the issues are because they only look to anime as a form of escapism and don't care about it as a medium.

Yamakan also said that he wants "to go to China and have a talk with people there," but he was quick to try to clarify this statement in a blog post.

"Honestly, I have resentment against (some) Chinese people," he said, and claimed he got in an argument with a "Chinese extremist" and ended up banned from entering China. "But at the same time there are lots of people from China who understand, and there are lot of fans."

He lamented that he was being attacked by Chinese people, stating that all he was trying to do was criticize otakunationalists for spreading hate against China and Korea. He blames both Japanese otakunationalists (netouyo) and "Chinese extremists" for the series' cancellation, and imagines himself as "in the middle" of both groups and subject to both sides' ire.

"If I'm criticizing the neo-nationalist otaku who are spreading hate, I get attacked from behind by Chinese people. It happened again today. It's really terrible. But it's not tied to my resentment towards all Chinese people," he wrote. "Is it so hard to have these discussions with common sense and reason but no hysterics?"

In the post he referred back to a previous blog entry from May 30, where he'd posted a reply he'd received that parodied Martin Niemöller's poem "First they came for..." about Germans not recognizing the Nazi's rise to power. The poem was rewritten to to begin with "First otaku attacked Yamakan..."

Yamakan's other tweets suggest he believes the cancellation is in part related to business interests of the production committee, a system he is critical of.

Yamakan has previously made discriminatory remarks, some he has apologized for. He characterized older otakuas disabled in September. He publicly characterizedFullmetal Alchemist director Seiji Mizushima as "childishly emotional," lashed out at the cast of the Wake Up, Girls!cast members, and partially blamed idol Mayu Tomita for being violently attacked by a fan in March 2017. In 2016, he declared moe as 'fascist' and anime is 'dead'.

Yamakan crowdfunded his in-progress anime film Hakubo(Twilight) and it is slated to open in theaters this year.
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is fine and good too not being happy with you losing your job. Yeah I agree Otaku aren't the best people at times. But Come the fuck on man, otaku is what that anime was going to be aimed at anyway. It was just going to another mediocre anime add to the sea of them. would have been forgotten when the next one came. beside shit ton peopleof say anime is dead and its just a broken record by this point. Is anime creativity stagnant right now? Yeah it is. but he was sure as shit not helping to fix it.
 
GeePee said:
Mazinger Z Infinity is going to get a 1 week screening in my theaters this week.I'm going to see a giant robot anime on my theaters in this lifetime!and from a classic Go Nagai series on top of that!
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It was very fun to see on the big screen.
 
neural said:
I think my dislike of dubs stems from the tendency of English VAs to overact to emulate the 'feel' of Japanese anime VAing, I have noticed that I can't detect overacting in the latter, because I don't know much Japanese.
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Of course they overreact too. Listen to an anime compared to average Japanese talk, it'd be like comparing Loony Tunes to average English.

I don't think I understand why the English VA emulating the original is a negative for you. A lot personality comes from the way they talk but you suggest that they reinvent characters per language?
 
neural said:
I think my dislike of dubs stems from the tendency of English VAs to overact to emulate the 'feel' of Japanese anime VAing, I have noticed that I can't detect overacting in the latter, because I don't know much Japanese. Though I do think that whoever chose the Luffy voice should be shot with acid-dipped howitzers, such a terrible choice, overacting or not.
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The issue with this is that all anime is really corny anyway. I think when it comes to dubbing there's a very fine line where you ham it up but you also need to pull back at certain parts. FLCL, for example, had phenomenal voice direction because they knew when and how to switch between exaggerated voices and naturalistic tones. Naota's dad seems like an asshole manchild until the final episode with that line where he lightly but seriously remarks that Naota's enjoying his freedom.
 
Give Her The D said:
Shit, I forgot about that! Is it any good?

I loved the original FLCL, with the whole music theme. Pretty sick soundtrack as well. Glad it's back.
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Having watched the first episodes of both Progressive and Alternative, I think both are starting as worthy sequels for FLCL. If nothing else The Pillows still kick ass.
 
Coster said:
Having watched the first episodes of both Progressive and Alternative, I think both are starting as worthy sequels for FLCL. If nothing else The Pillows still kick ass.
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Hell yeah. Ride On Shooting Star always had kind of that late 90's/early 2000's sound of rock from Europe (specifically kinda like Blur around that time). Anything like that is pretty sweet.
 
Another one:

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/in...uman-rights-for-new-life-cancellation/.132643

Etten no Sora Manga Artist Blames Hobby Japan, 'Human Rights' for [New Life+] Cancellation

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The cancellation of the [New Life+] Young Again in Another Worldanime has caused ripples throughout the anime industry. Outspoken anime director Yutaka Yamamoto(Wake Up, Girls!, Kannagi) weighed in earlier this week blaming both Japanese neo-nationalists and Chinese nationalists for the cancellation. Taekwondar Park manga original creator Masao Shiro's Twitter accountwas suspended after using a derogatory slur towards Japanese people while jokingly recommending his own manga for adaptation.

Writer Chiharu Takano, artist of the alternate history military manga Etten no Sora, shared their opinion on Twitter after the cancellation news broke. Takano wrote that the developments are having a chilling effect on social media and fears that statements made on websites like Twitter could put creators' livelihoods in danger.

"I understand that the anime [New Life+] was cancelled, [but] to stop publishing the novels is awful, seriously dangerous, hella scary, and I'm afraid I can't say things on Twitter. It's a dystopia. I'm shaking," they wrote.

Takano added, "Seriously though, people's lives are being ruined by this all mighty bludgeon known as 'human rights'. I'm less afraid of a 'flag' for communism than a 'bludgeon' for human rights," they wrote.

However, Takano added that they do not defend MINE's racist statements, but aren't sure it's something that a writer should be 'cut off' for. Takano said they've never insulted minorities on Twitter or engaged in hate speech but also said "I don't know the definition of hate speech."

They surmised that the cancellation had less to do with creator MINE's racist tweets against Korean and Chinese people, but the contents of the novels themselves. Takano credited publisher Hobby Japan for some of the blame and wrote, "The series had already reached 18 volumes. If it's hate speech, what is Hobby Japan doing? This isn't just the writer, but also the publisher's responsibility."
 
Does anybody else here despise, or is at least sick of Isekai-based stories as much as I am? I don't think that they're the worst thing out there, but you can't deny that they seem to keep retreading the same beats + themes over and over again. You could practically make a drinking game or bingo card out of it:
  • Main character either dies and is reincarnated or is transported to an alternate world.
  • Main character is a young man, either around high-school age or is in his early 20s.
  • Main character has a Mary Sue skill that allows him to "cheat" or be "super-duper special."
  • Main character brings over technology or practices from our Modern day culture, which ends up solving many of his problems with ease in the fantasy world.
  • Main character buys or obtains a slave.
  • Slave falls in love with main character for him treating her like a decent human being.
  • Many other girls end up falling for the main character, and thus a harem is formed.
  • Main character either has the willpower of a sage as to resist having sex with cute girls, or instead is banging a girl practically every chapter.
  • Main character is in a fantasy world based off of unimaginative RPG fantasy videogame loosely based on Tolkein, and thus sucks at establishing a unique world.
  • Main character joins a guild, or receives work + information from there.
  • Main character is either the hero that must save the day, or is the edgy misunderstood antihero/villain that nobody understands him.
  • Main character is so strong that he ends up having to fight the battles of his allies/underlings for them.
 
Burning Fanatic said:
Does anybody else here despise, or is at least sick of Isekai-based stories as much as I am? I don't think that they're the worst thing out there, but you can't deny that they seem to keep retreading the same beats + themes over and over again. You could practically make a drinking game or bingo card out of it:
  • Main character either dies and is reincarnated or is transported to an alternate world.
  • Main character is a young man, either around high-school age or is in his early 20s.
  • Main character has a Mary Sue skill that allows him to "cheat" or be "super-duper special."
  • Main character brings over technology or practices from our Modern day culture, which ends up solving many of his problems with ease in the fantasy world.
  • Main character buys or obtains a slave.
  • Slave falls in love with main character for him treating her like a decent human being.
  • Many other girls end up falling for the main character, and thus a harem is formed.
  • Main character either has the willpower of a sage as to resist having sex with cute girls, or instead is banging a girl practically every chapter.
  • Main character is in a fantasy world based off of unimaginative RPG fantasy videogame loosely based on Tolkein, and thus sucks at establishing a unique world.
  • Main character joins a guild, or receives work + information from there.
  • Main character is either the hero that must save the day, or is the edgy misunderstood antihero/villain that nobody understands him.
  • Main character is so strong that he ends up having to fight the battles of his allies/underlings for them.
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Most of those aren’t really limited to “transported to different world”.
 
Burning Fanatic said:
- Main character brings over technology or practices from our Modern day culture, which ends up solving many of his problems with ease in the fantasy world.

- Main character is in a fantasy world based off of unimaginative RPG fantasy videogame loosely based on Tolkein, and thus sucks at establishing a unique world.
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These right here are what I think are the most common problems of the isekai genre outside of the harem otaku fantasy. For whatever reason, probably because they're a bunch of (hack) amateurs who blindly follow trends, these creators can't seem to build worlds with their own unique set of rules to separate it from the real world, which is what the isekai genre should be. I shouldn't have to keep thinking about what kinds of good isekai are out there that aren't Digimon or Escaflowne. I know there's more out there, and better ones, too, but they all fall into the same trappings one way or another.

I sometimes think back to when Endride first came out and wonder why it is I even bothered watching it. But although it was a tedious, arduous watch as it aired due to its awful pacing and obnoxious main character (he got better, though I still don't really believe in the brotherly relationship between the two boys because all they did was chew each other out for over half of the show), the plot itself had so much fucking potential to be an original fantasy isekai series complete with a world with its own set of rules that could've been really cool. And yet even when the main plot finally kicked off, it still managed to fall short. And I'm thinking that's because it didn't believe in itself hard enough and had to rely too much on the viewer's own faith it would "get better".

It's disappointing to see wasted potential, and it's bad to have a soulless work that had no other purpose but to wring money out of stupid consumers, but there's nothing more disappointing in the entertainment business than an original work that never believed in itself even when against all odds.
 
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