Anime Will Never Be The Same
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- I feel like we are in the golden age of anime, where things are as good as it's going to get. I hope it lasts, but something inside of me wonders... Has anime peaked? Or is its potential unlimited? Part of me doesn't think that this level of quality and quantity of content is sustainable moving forward. I hope I'm wrong, and I hope that these shows, studios, and stories will continue to come out and reach even greater heights. These are what I feel are going to be the top anime in 2022 and 2023. Grab a sneak peak as I show you the studios and shows that I am most excited about in the coming few years.
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ANIME USED:
Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3 Trailer
Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2 Trailer
Suzume no Tojimari
(『すずめの戸締まり』予告【11月11日(金)公開】)
Chainsaw Man Official Trailer
Chainsaw Man Official Trailer 2
Cyberpunk Edgerunners Official Trailer
DOTA Dragon's Blood Book 3 Official Trailer
Dragon Ball Super Hero Official Trailer 2
Jujutsu Kaisen Official Trailer 3
Made in Abyss Season 2 Official Trailer
Mob Psycho 100 III Official Trailer
My Hero Academia Season 6 Official Trailer
Official JUMP FESTA Trailer Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War
Bleach Official Trailer 1 Thousand-Year Blood War
Solo Leveling Official Trailer
SPY x FAMILY Main Trailer
That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime The Movie Scarlet Bond Official Trailer
Tower Of God Season 2 Official Trailer
Trigun Stampede Official Trailer
Vinland Saga Season 2 Official Trailer
Ranking of Kings Season 2 Official Trailer
TVアニメ「王様ランキング」第3弾本PV
TVアニメ「進撃の巨人」The Final Season Part 2 PV第2弾
Demon Slayer Entertainment District Art
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Veiled in Black (Final Fantasy XV)
Stand Your Ground (Final Fantasy XV)
RAVUS AETERNA (Final Fantasy XV)
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There’s so many interesting angles that can be taken for these shows. The ideas that come to mind right now would be:
-Music/sound design/tone for made in abyss. I thought it really amplified the mystery and intrigue, horror and brutality, curiosity and exploration throughout the show.
-For Vinland Saga would be interesting to explore Askeladd and the idea of a compelling antagonist who’s motive you can understand and that isn’t just evil. Princess Mononoke did this really well.
-Mob Psycho in general would just be an incredible topic. It’s a great take on the “OP protagonist” trope. Past trauma, shutting himself off from emotion so that he doesn’t hurt others and its effect on him, his commitment to self improvement. Also just Reigen
Yeah, these are all great topics! You're right, there are definitely a ton of angles to choose from. I like that approach for Made in Abyss, and for Vinland Saga. So much material to discuss. Thanks for the suggestions! 😄
To be clear with vinland, it moved to MAPPA but it largely retained the same staff
Ahhhh, interesting. Hadn't heard that, thanks for letting me know!
An amazing time for animation (in general) is about to drop on us in the coming years. Way better than what we have right now. Right now is the time of expensive shows and big studios. But when animation becomes more accessible to small indie studios without the loss of quality, simply because the grind of animating frame by frame will be delegated to an Ai, we'll get so many projects and so many shows that, just to stand out, artists would have to try so much harder in terms of vision. There will be more entirely original projects and the top layer quality will become much-much higher. Just remember my words. If we get to live that long it will be great.
You know, I hadn't considered AI in terms of lightening the production load by just doing in betweens or something like that. That would be interesting to see. I hope we get some truly amazing stories, and you're right, I hope we'll still be around to see it!
you sir are slowly becoming one of my favorite anime related channels, that video on Impact frames was impecible, SUBBED!
Awww, thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoy my content. Thanks for watching!
I'm really hyped for chainsawman and solo leveling, they are so great.
Yeah, me too! I haven't read either, but from what I've heard, they're both going to be great.
Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to both of them!
Your comment section is what finally made me watch AoT in its entirety, and holy hell. It really is that good
Haha, that's awesome! I'm glad you got to experience the hype. What kept you from watching it before, if you don't mind my asking?
@@DrewMalou Just wasn't in the mood to watch it, really :P
I was putting it off basically for two reasons:
1. it can't possibly be as good as people say
2. I am already a fan of so many things, so if it _does_ turn out to be that good, I won't have enough energy in me to be a fan for it, too
I was afraid of #2 because that's exactly what happened not too long ago with Jojo :P
Hyped up for a very long time (for different reasons), very appealing to me from what I hear, literally everyone is talking about it, etc.
#1 _somehow_ failed. It really was that good.
But yeah, #2 came through.
I've been watching reaction channels reacting to the show since the day after I finished Final season part 1 (latest at the time), and I'm doing the same even now.
I _literally_ switched over from a video of Omariorpg watching Season 4 Ep 8.
I've watched his reactions since season 2, and he's not the only one by any means.
So many reactions, so many memes, so many video essays (like yours :D), so much fanmade content.
It's safe to say, my feed has permanently been transformed to include a bit of Attack on Titan.
Nothing wrong with that, of course, it just means I have less attention to pay to other things 🤷
Ahhhh, that makes sense! Yeah, even I was a little late to the party. Season one was already over, and my brother was just like... Drew, you should check this show out. Haha, changed my life. Thanks for explaining your position to me, I'm always curious what draws people in, or keeps people away. 😄
Mappa animating one punch man season 3 is🔥🔥🔥.Though, it might resease in 2024
Oh snap! I didn't hear that they picked it up. Thats gonna be wild!
The solo leveling Manwha has amazing art so seeing it animated sounds amazing
That's what I've heard! I still haven't read it, though. Need to do that before the anime drops!
I'm really interested in hearing your take on Vinland Saga, I just watched it, and while I enjoyed it for the most part, I felt it had some issues that were overlooked by the hype people have given it.
Cool! I felt very similarly, like it was overhyped. It would be interesting to pick it apart, and then see what people think. Thank you for the feedback!
I think that anime can keep this quality or even improve, the only thing that could make anime devolve is if the fully CGi anime being the only one produced
I hope it can! And yeah, I feel like most people love 2D anime, and don't want to see it go full 3D CGI.
Love your picks on anime kind of same preference as mine.. keep making vids man your content is interesting
I'm glad we have similar tastes, haha. And thank you so much, I'm glad you find my videos interesting!
That "frequent basis" might not be a good thing (especially with mappa)
But I would love a video about land of the lustrous
Yes! That show was so beautiful. Thanks for the feedback!
*squieking in euphoria* I actually don't keep track what comes up the seasons, until the season starts and I get to See what licenses crunchyroll got in germany...
But this is really a list of just incredible anime... And I really started to feel incredibly sad after watching demon slayer, cause I was thinking the same: THIS isn't just anime anymore... THIS is just Art. In every way. And I don't want to enjoy anime less, cause I got my standards up... But that's what's happening with all those effing good series! And I'm a bit afraid, that there is no way back to enjoy the shitty side of anime anymore... And then I find myself drowning in a guilty pleasure anime and just being like: "I can't even say why excactly I'm watching this..."
And I would LOVE a Video essay about 5cm per second! I love this Film and I'm still trying to figure out why it is soooo good!
Haha, I know, I feel you! I think we are definitely getting spoiled by all this good animation, haha. It does make it harder to watch normal shows. And yes! I love 5cm Per Second as well, and would love to do a video on it. Thanks for the feedback!
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i did my university thesis about manga and anime compared to western comics and cartoons (so graphic differences, comunication differences, cultural differences, all the usual misconceptions, why they are getting so much more popular every year and stuff like that), and my exact final chapter of it it's just an entire analysis about demon slayer and his succes... now i cannot wait to hear your opinion about this topic, i'm so looking forward to it.
p.s.: btw your videos helped a lot in all of this, so i mentioned you and your channel in the bibliography and sitography, as well as in the "thanks" chapter
Holy cow, that is so cool! Thank you so much for letting me know. I'm glad my content was able to help you with your thesis... that's amazing! Is it posted anywhere online where I would be able to read it? I would love to check it out.
And yeah, the Demon Slayer manga situation would be really fun to research, but it sounds like you already know all about it! Haha. I'll probably need to cite your thesis in my video!
@@DrewMalou i just did a brief research about demon slayer success and i gave my opinion about it, but as an opinion, is just away from objectivity hahaha... Also unfortunately i'm from italy and the thesis it's in italian too, so it would be maybe to hard for you to read it😅... Anyway i'll try to send it to you as soon as i complete the pdf layout, for now i have all the text and all the images, but i have to put it all togheter... Then i'll try to translate it to you if i have some time, otherwise you could try to put it on google translator or something, but i don't know what can come out of it😅😅... I'll do my best anyway, your opinion would be AWESOME as a personal goal🙏🏼
That thesis sounds interesting, but I'm sure translating it would take quite a while, so no worries if you're busy. I can try to feed it through Google translate, lol. 😂 I would definitely love to read it someday, though!
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@@DrewMalou i'll do my best, i promise😁👍
Well thank you, that's all I can ask! 😁
Farmland Saga, here we goo!
Hahaha, I've heard great things!
Love your Videos, keep it up 🙏
Thank you so much! 😁
I really don't have the Internet to follow up with all your videos(Meaning that I can't watch animals animals just 20kbps. Not even download them) but I can keep going untill I can't. Cause i love your channel
Oh dang, I'm sorry! I appreciate you spending your precious bandwidth on my channel! That means a lot to me. 😊 I'll try and make videos that are worth your time! Thank you so much for watching!
The Demon Slayer vs American comics isn't much of a comparison. The American Comic Industry has been in a decline since the early 2000s. I don't think any a single issue has sold anywhere close to 100,000 units. I can easily see a volume of Demon Slayer surpass all of American comics.
Yeah, it still blows my mind though, haha. I'd be curious to see why that decline happened in the US in the first place. Thanks for the feedback!
Its great time for anime and animation in general. From the east shows like chainsaw man, attack on titan are coming and in the west there are shows like arcane and love death + robots. The only thing i am scared of is the overwork and the underpaying situation for the animators. The quality is rising but the cost isn't. Other than that i am hyped for the future.
Yeah, I hope we don't see huge burnout, or massive strikes or something like that. You're right, though, there are a lot of hyped shows coming out soon!
I would love a video analyzing demon slayer sakuga, and talking about the manga
Yeah! That animation is so good! And I haven't read the manga, but it would be interesting to compare and contrast the manga with the anime. Thanks for the feedback!
Next season will be a gift from the gods, too many hyped shows coming out!
Would love to see your take on the animation of mugen train!
The comparison between bleach animations could be great as well, as we have time difference between last and next season.
I knoooow, I'm way too hyped for what's coming, haha. And good suggestions! Thank you for the feedback. 😄
As always, the montage is amazing. And all of the video concepts look very interesting.
When it comes to AOT, I think both studios have something in common. They get better in the art in time. The 3rd season of Wit was dashing and speaking as an illustrator, the proportions, and outlines were way better than season 1 even if it was great from the start. First Final season from Mappa was disappointing... the artstyle only worked for a couple of characters and the rest looked all the same in the face with just different hair. The facial features were all like thick-cut (as we say in my language) and the CGI even in the living characters (like the kids) was really disturbing.
BUT! Mappa only did what they could within the time they had and, dear lord, the second final season was ASTONISHING! The art style improved, the titans, the battles, the blood, the movement in the action scenes, everything was fantastic! And the faces that troubled me in the previous season, were obviously polished and perfected! And this is also why I am not mad for getting a third final season. I prefer to get something as good and have one more epic season done properly than rush the studio for ending it faster with questionable results and also cost the animators' health.
Heeeeey!! How are you doing? It's been so long! I'm glad you like the video ideas, haha. And it looks like you totally just wrote my AoT script for me! That's awesome. You just gave me some great places to start my research. 😄 But yes, I'm glad they didn't rush the ending, and decided to give it a proper finish. I'm so excited for it! I hope you've been well. I don't get on IG very often, but we should catch up soon!
@@DrewMalou Indeed it is! I am so glad you started to make videos again!
About how I am...well...passing covid kinda heavily and still having the bad cough, doesn't make it great... are you doing ok? Have you done anything with your book?? I often think about it!
About the AOT comment, I am so glad if it helped somehow!!! I am very picky in those matters in illustration XD (And you know how ISFJs are with details). If you need any help with it, I can point out specific examples etc, I will be really glad to help! I even remember scenes where I've noticed something, so, that might help to find the footage as well.
I look forward to the new season too! The last one got me so hyped! And it wasn't the plot, I read the manga one year ago (literally). It was the way they brought it to the animation, which was just so brilliant to the detail.
Oh, I deactivated my IG account, actually. I have a new one that is private but IG decided to disable it for that reason, it makes no sense to me... I am working on it now. I hope we will be able to catch up. I miss our conversations. ☺
Thank you! I'm glad to be making videos again, as well. Sorry you got Covid, it's the worst. I had it a few weeks ago as well, and that cough is rough. I pitched my book to a few agents, but didn't get any interest, so I've decided to try and increase my CZcams audience which I've heard can make you look better as you pitch it (because you already have an established audience). I'm glad you still think about it! That's so nice to hear. 😁
The AoT info would be great! Although, I have no idea when I will get to that video, so it will probably be a while, lol. I might wait until the show is over before I do a big deep dive into it. I would love to read the manga as well, but I think I'll finish the show first.
And bummer! I'm sorry IG did that to you. That seems really weird. And yeah, I miss our conversations as well! I'm glad you're doing alright though, aside from Covid.
@@DrewMalou Oh, I am sorry you got covid too!
About the book, let me tell you one thing. My brother wrote a book and he was rejected by many publishers until one of the biggest ones in Greece got his book and loved it and now every store has it, there are critiques everywhere and interviews of him and the book is going for best seller. So, you never know. But it's also good you focus on youtube now as your content is brilliant!
You are right. It's better if you do it when it's wrapped up, so you can talk about it as a whole. And don't worry, I am always available to help if needed!
I am currently in the IG account I use for my kids books. The username is mikro.manga so if you ever feel like it, you can find me there!
Yeah, Covid is lame. And wow! That's awesome for your brother. What a great story, and good for him! 😊 And thank you, I'm glad you still like my videos. Good to know, I will try to reach out when AoT is finished. And I barely get on IG anymore, but I'll try and reach out soon!
Don't worry about it, people had came and went yelling "Golden Age, Golden Age, is upon us!" every 5 or so years, you're not going to see this as the last one, the only difference is how the technology changes with time and what newer styles and techniques will come up after those Greatest shows.
I sure hope so! It just feels like things are too good to last. Thanks for watching!
@@DrewMalou Let me reassure you , it will go away eventually and inevitably, whether you're anxious about it or enjoy every moment of it.
Your only choice right now, is to plan how will you handle this fruitful harvest.
Haha, exactly! Got to make the most of the moments we have right now. That's one of the purposes of this video, actually. To try and give everyone a moment to reflect on how awesome anime is right now.
2022 and 2023 are the best years in the history of anime by a *large margin*
2022:
Demon Slayer Entertainment District Arc
Attack on Titan Final Season part 2
My Dress-Up Darling
Spy x Family
Kaguya-sama Season 3
Call of the Night
Chainsaw Man
Mob Psycho 100 Season 3
Bleach
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
2023:
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2
Vinland Saga Season 2
Solo Leveling
Demon Slayer Swordsmith Village Arc
Attack on Titan Final Season part 3
Mushoku Tensei Season 2
Rurouni Kenshin
Nier: Automata Ver1.1a
Uzumaki
One Punch Man Season 3
Yeah! These two years are absolutely epic. Thank you for watching!
Honestly, all of these ideas sound like amazing videos, and I’d watch any of them, since your style is too good to miss a single upload, but the one I have the biggest stake in would be AoT, as I’d love to hear your thoughts on it all, whether they be about the switch in animation studios or the overall story, so I’d be ecstatic to see a video about the final season of AoT from you! As for the anime that are coming up, I’m also very excited for Chainsaw Man, as I’ve heard nothing but great things about the manga, so I want to see what all the hype is about! I’m also very excited for Tower of God S2, as I recently read the WEBTOON, and while I didn’t love it at first, I came to really appreciate it, and S2 has some incredible arcs, which I’m very curious to see how they get animated! I also want to read Solo Leveling before the anime comes out, as I love to experience the source material first so that I can compare the adaptation to where the story first debuted! Do like to go in blind to adaptations or experience the source material first, my friend? Thanks for a fantastic video, as per usual!
Haha, well thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. And YES! Definitely going to make a ton of videos about Attack on Titan. There is just so much to talk about with that show. Almost any approach would be interesting, haha. I would like to finish the show before I make any big video series or comparisons, though, so it might be a bit before they come out. I've heard a lot of buzz surrounding Chainsaw Man (pun fully intended, lol) so I'm looking forward to that as well. Haven't read/watched ToG or Solo Leveling, but I want to get into them! And to answer your question: if it's a traditional book that gets a film adaptation, I like to read the book first. When it comes to animation, I almost always prefer to watch the anime. I read very little manga. I should probably change that, though, haha. And thanks for the kind words, as always, and thank you for watching!
@@DrewMalou Oh yes, that's what I'm talking about! For sure, I figured you'd want to wait until it's done, as I think it would make the most sense to have the whole story to work from, in terms of making videos. Whenever those videos come out, I'll be extra excited to see them! Haha, I love a good pun, and that one rips (not as good of a pun, but that's what I came up with on the fly haha)! At least from the manwha side of things, ToG's first season is a bit rough on the art, but it gets much better as it goes on. The world is very, very interesting, and it certainly feels like something that a whole lot of thought was put into, so I think you'd like it. I've heard the anime is good, especially the soundtrack, which was done by Kevin Penkin, who also did the Made in Abyss soundtrack! Yeah, I also prefer to read the book first, as I love reading and getting to experience a world that way has been something I've loved since I was a kid! I also have read very little manga, and it's only recently that I've really gotten into it, with Gantz and Black Clover being the manga I read because I needed to see how their stories continued after their anime ended (for Gantz, it's over, and BC will come back someday, but no one knows when). I have never read a manga before watching an anime, but I aim to change that with Kaiju No. 8, as it seems very interesting and I've wanted to check it out. For me, manga was a bit hard to get into, since I love American comics, and I'm used to colored pages, but I got used to it pretty quickly. You're welcome, thanks for your reply, as usual, and I hope you have a great rest of your weekend!
Yeah, I definitely want to wait until AoT is finished, before I make any remarks on it. I'm already super hyped for it, haha. And I totally lol'd at your pun. 😂 So that tells you about my sense of humor, haha. Yeah, the first manga I read was A Silent Voice because I wanted to experience the source material. I'll probably do that for AoT at some point. And I didn't know they stopped BC. Are they waiting for more issues of the manga to come out before they adapt it into anime? And I haven't heard of Kaiju no. 8, but I'll try to check it out. And yeah, I feel you about American comic books. Thank you so much, I had a great weekend, I hope yours was awesome too!
@@DrewMalou Yeah, I feel the same! I actually just heard the full version of SiM's The Rumbling, which I'd only heard in the portion that was the intro for the Final Season Part 2, and it got me even more hyped for the finale than I was before! Hey, puns are great, especially when cleverly done, so I'm glad we share a love for puns haha! Ah, that makes sense: your love for A Silent Voice showed through in your video on it, so it makes sense that you read the manga for it; my love of BC was why I wanted to read the manga after the anime stopped, since I adored the world and just had to see how the story continued from where the anime stopped! I think I'll also read AoT once I see how the anime ends, as I've heard amazing things about that manga, of course. Yup, that's exactly it about BC: the people behind the anime were too close to the manga, and they didn't want to do fillers (since BC had pretty much avoided fillers before that point), so they wanted to wait and pick up the anime at some later point when there's a bit more space between where the manga and anime are. What I've heard about Kaiju No. 8 piqued my interest: essentially, it's about a world where kaiju have I guess been enough of a threat that there's an organization dedicated to stopping them, which the main character and his best friend both join. However, the MC somehow makes some sort of contact with what I gather is a different kaiju, and so he's able to go between his human form and this kaiju that he bonded with, and he fights hostile kaiju, but he has to contend with his best friend, who's now the head of the anti-kaiju agency and doesn't know that her best friend is this mysterious new kaiju. It sounds like an interesting premise, and I think people have liked it, so I want to check it out! Thanks for reading this even longer than usual message haha, and I hope you've been having a good week thus far!
A topic I feel needs to be discussed more terms of animation series/manga-comics is the idea of onoboardning onto a series,here is what I mean:
onboardning means how much content a new viwer is expected to read/watch to catch up to the latest release in a story or how long it will take to conclude a piece of media and it can be broken in 3 areas: #1 series backlog, #2 generational differences for later chapters/older works being brought back and #3 why people offboard/drop a series
#1onbarding backlog on the topic of demon slayer I think is because its easy to onboard,their is alot of hype and it has a concluded story which can be cosnumed in a rsnable period of time while alot of western comics have a convoluted system of branching stories,mini seres and side stories found in other characters mainline issues so as a foreign viewer I would rather read a streamlined ,high quality story rather than have to google which stories to get so I can get a fuller picture(yes I am aware of the infinite crisis reset its still confusing).So for alot of the stories you brought up they have a healthy backlog that people can go through encouraging a strong fanbase
#2 #2 generational differences for later chapters/older works being brought back:I I will use bleach as an example,bleach for what I have read has a good manga series,but an exhastive backlog in terms of anime,so any person who wants to join the hype train for the new series conclusion will either need to read the disappointing ending or slog through the anime,this is where the genrational divide begins some manga.series has aged fine eureka 7,cowboy bepop,kill la kill etc have aged fine,but for older series looking for new fans newer fans may not stick to the lder subpar animation,like even in HS outside of the final fights bleaches animation was lackluster so for a genration who grew up on AOT,MHA,DBZ,ViNLAND SAGA etc the bar has been raised,it would be tolerable if older series where shorter but alot of them has alot of episodes to go though+ filler(discussed in #3)so their may be a genreational divide in terms of qility this was best exemplifeid in the new Shaman king which looked like a polished 2008 anime in current day.
#3 why people offboard/drop a series:to expand on #1 sometimes the back catalogue is just too much eg One Piece ,by god have I tried to catch up,but man it feels like a full time job at times(i am not,not enjoying it but all I am saying that is an intimidating amount of back issues,so some series which may be good has such a huge barrier to entry in terms of backlog some people may not try reading it(I literally had to bribe a friend into giving berserk a chance after he was intimidated by the back issue amount).On the topic of backlog filler,filler is talked alot but not in terms of onboarding their are alot of shows I will not pick up/dropped because of filler eg Bleach(It was already on thin ice with its slow af story/animation) and Naruto shippuden ,its no longer 2010 were our options are limited we have multiple streaming services,manga/books are easier to read/purchase and even youtube as an altrenative to tv so I can see why if someone feels like a manga/series is wasting their time even after trying to go through its back catalogue would drop it and never pick it up again as why read one thing you dont like when you have a backlog of other premium stuff begging for your eyeballs
and their is alot more,In terms of anime/manga and general streaming I dont see enough discussion on why people stay on a series even after a long heitus and why some series even if really good are not given a chance.That is my video recommendation ,but I am honestly down with the other topics.
Thanks for the recommendation! This is an interesting topic, and one I hadn't considered yet. You've given me a lot to think about... I'll have to do some research and then see! But you're right, I haven't heard a lot of people discussing this topic.
I personally would love if you make videos about why the Demon Slayer manga sold so well and a video essay about 5 cm per second. That could be amazing
Sweet! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks those ideas sound interesting, haha. Thanks for the feedback!
On the topic of "can it last" I think this is a valid feeling which isnt too far from where I think the animation industry is going.Japans current output is not sustainable,the quility bar has been raised so high that I feel like a crash is on its way I can imagine it going in 4 ways:
#1 payement and collaboration being forced to adapt to the international standard:
As anime becomes more mainstream(what is "mainstream"anymore)a reckoning is currently happening int the japanse animation industry ,alot of veterans are leaving the industry and the high technical level of 2d animation being demanded cannot be filled fast enough at their current work pay and draconian work hours required,so as anime keeps this high demand for high quility shows in full gear its eather they pay their animators more or risk major brain drain.(so possible topic does an increase in popularty/visual fidelty tranfer to btter pay/treatment)
#2 AI ,so this is speculative and can be placed under the banner of "sci-enthusasnt" but I have seen alot of advancements in terms of ai 2d animation interpolation,colouring and spacial compositing( a scary amount of it is really indistinguishable from those drawn by skilled artists).I think we are heading out of an age of large studios and into more indie/smaller teams needed for productions,as an animator its pretty scary seeing how well it can both inbetween and track arcs for different objects,but also maintain timing for objects no even in its view borders but alof factore in weight for differnt items on the fly ,this feels like magic.I never though I may live in a timeline where we could realistically get a animation that could match the visual fidelity of weathering with you made by a team of 25 or less but I am seeing alot of that happening even on youtube.(so possible topic what is the future of anime in terms of team size)
#3 Format fatigue:
I mentioned in #1 that alot of high fidelity animation is the basic standard for a show every season,but does it need to drop weekly?as the streaming/content wars goes in full swing I dont think studios can really keep up with it,especially with the current brain drain/toxic work culture.I mean AOT/demon slayer sakuga is awesome ,but do we need it every week.I am willing to do bi weekly if it means the animators can breath.I think we are heading to a time where the schedule of weekly drops will be put in question by the industry itself as I have seen alot of shows start well but sputter and crash near then end due to their deadlines.( so do we need weekly anime as a topic that explores how the industry currently works,the good/bad of weekly episodes,the culture of weekly episodes that build hype with fans and can the industry keep up with the weekly format)
#4 animators move onto to greener pastures
As you said their are some hype shows coming out,but also alot of skill on display so if japan wont increase their pay/wont adress their toxic work culture with alot more animators burning out trying to keep the new industry standard of high technical animation I could see alot of Japanese animator leaving the industry and working for other Asian animation houses or switch towards western animation just for better pay and better work life balance.(so their is a topic "does anime deserve its animators" with notes on how other countries pay/treat their animation stuff)
I think I can boil my fear of animes' future is "why is stuff looking better,but the talent is not being treated better"if the animators are not in a good place it will effect the overall health of the industry.
Another great set of suggestions! Thanks for this. Someone else was mentioning AI in terms of being able to pick up the slack or to take on all of the in-betweening, which would speed up a lot of production timelines. Your other points would all be interesting topics too!
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i think this is all a ripple effect idk what but something caused a ripple (my guess is fate and demon slayers projects that released in 2019 and 2020 then a big cause is demon slayer S2) and there had to be competition so studios made more quality animation and it keeps rippling but it has to stop eventually
Yeah, I feel you. I'm of a similar mindset. I don't think the quality can keep improving forever... it's got to hit a ceiling sometime!
One day I'm hoping to have the manga stories i wanna create become manga tho I'm not Japanese but things are willing to change. I really hope your wrong abt the quality going down because when mines do become an anime i hope the quality and animation is amazing
The funny thing is, I hope I'm wrong too! I would love to see the manga stories you create turn into anime, that would be awesome!
@@DrewMalou thanks:) lets just hope the quality gets better
You're welcome! And yes, that would be awesome. 😄
Bleach's fillers are not as interesting as the canon story, but..... they are infinitely better than Naruto fillers. I remember watching both as they were coming out, and I watched even Bleach fillers.... Naruto I just didn't have the patience.
We're living the golden age of anime right now, let's rejoice.
Definitely in the golden age of anime! And that's funny, I was the exact opposite... I watched the Naruto filler episodes, but couldn't stand the Bleach ones, lol.
It's awful how corporatism and control has put a chokehold on western animation and made it stagnant and fall waa-ay behind in storytelling.
Yeah, it is kind of a bummer. However, that same capitalistic draw is probably going to save Western animation, because anime has such a large market now, it makes business sense to try and tap into it. But it will definitely take time!
@@DrewMalou As someone who cut their teeth on the industry and culture growing up, I can't really stand [newer] anime anymore. Or the new gen of weebs that keep it in my face. It's hard to even talk to them because they wax poetic over a character they're "moe" for or a fight scene more than the story.
And believe me, knowing corporate culture and distillation, it won't save Western animation. They'll just go hard into the paint with popular anime tropes 'til it loses all meaning:
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I wanna hear you compare attack on titan yes.
Dang, I somehow missed this comment, so I'm sorry I'm late, but that' s awesome! That would be a fun video to make, however, I might wait until the show concludes so that I can make a full comparison.
@@DrewMalou yeah, that's fair.
I remember watching the first part of the Final season.
I don't really like how it has evolved, but I, hooked now and I wanna see it all :D .
even though You missed a lot of big names like bungo stray dogs, Uzumaki and mushoku tensei, which add to your argument, I still can't fully agree with you.
the reason now we are getting so many great shows, is because we are getting more shows than ever.
with the exception of 2020 which had issues due to covid, we have been getting more and more great anime every year.
to the point that If you asked me what are the best years for anime, 2 years out of the top 3 would be very recent. 2021, and 2019.
so many of these big hitter shows are here to stay for a long time. made in abyss, vinland saga, chainsaw man, mushoku tensei and so many of these are here to stay for most if not all of this decade.
so no I don't think these years can't be repeated, because with the exception of aot none of these shows are leaving.
and the mentioned aot has a really good chance of being a disappointment, for me the show hit in an all time low in terms of writing in s4 p2, and I just can't understand anyone who thinks the studio change and rushed production wasn't a massive downgrade for aots production value.
the fact that I haven't seen a single manga reader say anything good about the ending doesn't help it's case either.
there is also the fact that there are more than a few legendary mangas waiting for their adaptation.
A good adaptation of berserk, jojo part 7, vagabond, oyasumi pun pun, these can all be instant classics if they get a good adaptation.
on a last note, you had problems with character development in vinland saga?
I'm going to be honest, I don't see a world were anyone can tell the world the show praised to death and gets called a masterpiece for it's character writing has problems in that exact section. I don't know what your reasoning is, but I would rethink it. this is one the things that 99% of the world, both critics and casuals will disagree with you on.
now that doesn't guarantee that they are right, but you need to have some fully fleshed out and extremely convincing reasons to go against that and come on top. and honestly, I just don't see anyone being able to do that. not for vinland saga, and specially not in terms of characters.
I think we are getting more anime adaptations because the market for anime keeps expanding. It feels like that expansion is going to lead to issues down the road. I believe that this is true for almost all entertainment right now. There so many shows/movies/anime to watch on so many devices/streaming services/platforms that I feel like there won't be enough funds to support everything, which will lead to an eventual collapse. But I'm not a psychic, it's just a feeling that I have that things right now are too good to last.
As for Vinland Saga, consensus opinion doesn't hold much weight in my eyes. I was surprised that everyone was raving about it, because I think it does have some pretty big flaws. As for what those flaws are, you'll have to wait for the video. Hopefully you'll take an objective look, but if you already love the show, I have doubts that I'll change your mind. And don't get me wrong, I didn't hate the show, I enjoyed the experience and the animation, but it had several things that raised some red flags for me.
@@DrewMalou i don't know how to feel about this. i feel like you're being to cautious. i mean anime getting popular has had its backslashes, but the quality of shows has been only improving because of it.
the budgets are getting higher, and the shows are getting sequels much more easily.
i think you're worrying too much.
and on the second note
Don't worry, if there is one guy who is willing to be objective its me.
all i'm saying is that there are countless other video essays against that opinion of yours, so your reasoning needs to be extra convincing since you are going against the masses.
here's the thing. public isn't always right.
but before you can understand why public is wrong, you have to fully get why everyone else thinks that way.
if you were surprised that everyone thought highly of the character writing, there is a good chance that you may be missing something.
i have plenty of unpopular opinions myself, which i have argued many times in the internet, so trust me when i say for you to be convincing in a case like this, the first and most important step is fully understanding why people disagree with you.
so if you ever wanted to make that video, i strongly suggest reading a few positive reviews, and watching some character/story essays before it.
because keep in mind, you aren't just saying why you are right. you also need to say why everyone else is wrong, and for that you need that understanding first.
you have to go into fully getting why vinland saga gets called a masterpiece by critics and casuals alike, and then and only then.
you may be able to change peoples mind about it.
Oh, I'm not really worried about it. Just pointing out some trends I've noticed. I think something similar is going to happen with the American film and television industries. Too much content, and too many streaming services to choose from. I think we're in a bubble right now.
And I wouldn't necessarily say I was surprised people liked Vinland Saga so much... I think aspects of it are great. It just didn't really impress me like I had heard it did for everyone else. You'll have to let me know your thoughts when I make my video.
If I wasn't such a big fan of trigun I would share your hype but rn I'm just salty asf because they have Butchered ma boi into some cgi mess
Oh and god damn SAC being completely cgi. Take me back to the 90s n early 2000s please because yeah we are going the wrong way
I mean yeah sure there is a bunch of cool stuff but when my two favourite series turn into what they have why should I care about anything
Hmmmm... do you not like the CGI because you think it looks bad, or because you would rather see it in 2D? I feel like Orange's animation is pretty good, but I haven't seen SAC yet, so I can't speak to that. Sorry the hype is dead for you... 😥
@@DrewMalou (my other comments were a mess so I wanted to make my point more clear n just deleted them) I want to be clear between animation and art style. What I'm annoyed with is the direction of the art, its not to my taste at all and a main reason I fell in love with trigun was the way it looked. I shouldn't say that the new version looks like crap because I guess some people like the way it looks. But something about knowing I'll probably never see anything new in that style again kills a little piece of me. Apart from a select few modern animes I find everything looks very flat and lifeless, like there's no texture if that makes sense. To me the Anime I love died with Redline as that was the last true hurrah of that style and it almost sent madhouse bankrupt
No worries! And okay, I see what you mean. Yeah, that was definitely a unique style, and you're right, it's no where near as prevalent anymore. Thanks for clarifying, that makes a lot more sense. And I've wanted to make a video about Redline for a very long time, so maybe now is finally the time!
please dont do a video about the demon slayer manga its sooooo bad and overhyped as hell. The anime has good animation and alot of action but thats that it has nothing more. It doesnt need more, but this also gate keeps it from being worth talking much about imo
Haha, most of the time, I make videos because I'm interested in learning about the topic, not because I want to promote the show or something like that. I find the story interesting, but I respect the fact that you think it's overhyped, which can certainly be true. Thank you for your feedback!