Pippin also thought that running away was a viable strategy: "We've got the Shire. Maybe we should go.", then Merry set him straight: "Fires of Isengard will spread and the woods of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn, and all that was once green and good in this world will be gone. There won't BE a Shire, Pippin."
@GeneralProfessor Fighting them consists of not buying the trash and only buying good products. Maybe for some, like Eric July, it's creating new entertainment companies. I can't exactly take the battle to their strongholds. I think the authorities would frown on that.
yes they can say that by pointing out how the style of anime wasn't made to look human but based off animals to make them look cuter, hence forth it's for furries which are also lgbtqabcdefghijklmnoprstuvxyz
Journo: "anime wasn't made for you" Anime enjoyer: "but was it made for you?" Journo: "y-yes, isn't that right anime studio?" Studio: "I don't even know who any of you are **adds jiggle to milkies** "
"There is no perfect spaghetti sauce, only perfect spaghetti sauces" Or maybe from the helldivers devs, "a game for everyone is a game for no one." Basically, you can't make something that appeals to everyone.
@@talkingtakotaco8611 I literally learned that lesson with spaghetti sauce. Half family loved it and other half didn't. So I changed it a bit for next time and other half family loved it and ones loved first one didn't. I just couldn't win.
@@saekashiwagi5829 A live action magical girl series could actually be really adorable. But I don't think I'd feel comfortable with it using actual child actors. Too much potential for exploitation, too much potential for actual perverts to create problems, too much potential for it to really screw the actors up in the head later down the road. And it wouldn't be the same with adult actors. It certainly doesn't help that magical girl stories are often about coming of age, so whether metaphorically or literally they often do deal with sexual themes to one degree or another. Making it a cartoon allows you to have characters who are teens or preteens without putting any actual children in any danger.
We NEED a return of the classic 80s anime. Rock, metal, demons, derangement, big hair, big attitudes and stories that make the twilight zone, slasher flicks and robocop look tame.
Censorship regulations inside of Japan from the 90's and 2000''s prevents that. Also, Japanese audiences today are too soft towards their characters dying or being shat at (A light novel got cancelled because expies of popular isekai characters were made evil).
There is literally an anime where a Grandparent couple eat a golden apple and turn young again, enjoying their renewed youth but still living their normal lives as old-folk. Yet, the antics also have insightful moments of love, aging, contemplation of death, and retrospection. Western media can't even seem to get reboots of old shows right. Or respect those older shows either.
Western shows are completely unable to display death and how to deal with it. That’s almost it’s own genre in Japan, mono no aware, the pathos of things. Prime examples were anohana, plastic memories, your lie in April and so many more. It’s almost impossible to find this I. Western media these days. Hell even Lion King dealt with it a bit. Mufasa didn’t come back, he was dead, and Simba had to deal with it.
@@refugeehugsforfree4151 My IRL friends look at me weird when I state that I read Saya no Uta for the story hahaha. I think you need to go back to 90's tv for those type of weird sci-fi romance horrors or things like Tales from the Crypt-keeper . The east tends to be far more creative when it comes to story these days.
Do not gatekeep only, physical media is important; gatekeep AND archive, because they are definitely are aiming to erase what doesn't suit their worldview.
@@thefool8224 Whatever you can, no matter how much or how little, I'm archiving whatever I can, been doing it for a while, the goal is for people to archive the classics before companies start trying to scrub from the internet from anything that doesn't align with their worldview and replace it with curated content they want, especially old/classic animes.
People are just enjoying old-fashioned escapism. That’s why you can have both a fantastic bombastic like Godzilla x Kong at the same time as a slow thriller like Godzilla minus one. Neither one sat the audience down and attempted to have a “dialogue” about pastel people in Palpatine/Isntreal or some garbage. 🎩 🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
I was born into regularly watching anime. But that being said, what age you are when you get into it, like any hobby, doesnt matter. The only thing that matters is your passion and authenticity. Lame-o poser commies have neither.
I was in basic school, before 1st grade, back in the mid to late 90s when I first glimpsed Princess Mononoke and Birdy the Mighty. The it was Dragon Ball and Metropolis and cyborg 009 and bunch of others I can't remember when I was in primary school. Didn't take it on as a hobby til I was in high school.
@@spykemxd Anime was my Saturday morning cartoons because that is when they aired in my country, If I wanted see American shows and cartoons I had to tune into AFN, signal was sketchy. Back when we all still had rabbit ears on our TV. I wish it never got as popular as it has in the west. To many people now watch it and don't respect it. Same issue happened with American Shows.
As an example; my nephew was talking about My Hero Academia one day. I had never seen it, because I don't like following hype-trends in any kind of media, so if I ever do watch a hit-anime, it is way after it is done. Anyways, I decided to check it out after he talked highly of it. I was hooked right away. Watched seasons 1-6 in like, a month. I was excited to meet up with him one day to talk to him about the entire series and what we both liked about it... turns out, he only watched the first season after moving on to something else (non-anime). I'm 44, he is 17. Hell, I connected more with my g/f about the show than I did with him, and she is 26. So yeah, the hard support of anime and manga being mostly from previous generations, is no surprise.
its one of the best military politics story show, the 90s version is better than the remake version, its nearly the same but the only difference in remake version is they added the war on giant ball fortress.
You know you and the 18 upvoters could bother reading. 4:30 "per japanese PR agency PR Times, a survey conducted by Japanese research company Dream Train Internet Co." Y'all mfers have gotten lazy as hell. 4channers put more effort than this like come on
Have you ever heard about manga demographic classification? Like Shonen (teenage Boy); Shojo (Teenage Girl); Sheinen (Adult Men); Josei (Adult Women); Kodomumuke (Children under 10)
I 100% agree. Increasingly western media for me has become less relatable and appealing to creativity/fantasy ideas in my opinion. it's hard to watch a lot of shows without thinking about the agenda. You're especially right about the romance too, I feel like romances or just shows with a "love interest" are so much less common and well thought out compared to anime. It would be sad too if a lot of shows get westernized because I feel like anime has been getting better and better and I want it to grow with its target audience and not the top execs that want to latch onto the the new popular thing.
I was into my thirties when I "discovered" anime, that was about 20 years ago. Still watching a fair amount of it, spanning most genres, though I'll admit to a certain long lasting preference for isekai. Last few years has been incredibly busy with isekai shows though, very varying quality. You referenced Kumoko a bit, I liked the bits about her a lot, she was funny, and the battles were a blast - but my God the other half of the show, about her class-mates were SUCH A DRAG. One of my all time favourite anime movies, a Drama, bit of a tear jerker really "A Silent Voice"
The manga it was partially basing itself on decided to not copy the original author's light novel and instead focused purely on Kumoko from the start, you get little end-of-chapter flashes to other characters just to keep you up to date on their progress but not entire chapters since the story is about Kumoko.
A 50 year old liking Isekai is crazy, I respect you though. As an 18 year old it's probably my least favorite genre, I'm more of a fan of Slice of Life/CGDCT animes/manga.
if you liked silent voice, i recommend the author's other series "to your eternity". the premise and main char are wonderful and the series is just as tear-jerking.
I've been watching anime since I was a teenager (or as a kid if you count heavily-localized shows like Robotech). Now I'm just a few months away from turning 50 and I have no intention of stopping watching anime.
Anime is a bit diffrent since it's based on light novels and manga as source material, and the authors aren't exactly dead so they can't just dance on their corpse like in the west. And light novels and manga compete on a ruthless Free Market, if you are no popular enough you get axed so only the fittest will survive. Especially getting an anime is an achievement. So it's unlikely they are going to fuck up all the studios, only "some", more likely anime originals. Animators and Voice Actors also have their own cliques so it's unlikely projects are going to get much traction in terms of attracting talents even if they throw in a bunch of money.
Yup, and there's alot of studios they'd have to corrupt and still new ones popping up, as opposed to the west, where you could count the mainstream studios on one hand.
I want to know how the manga industry can make better looking stuff on a shoestring budget than the Western comic book industry with wads of cash from Blackrock.
By not coloring and using "worse" paper You'd be surprised how much additional time and effort that takes in comparison to just keeping things black and white, so all that effort can go other places like story and overall art quality
Disney+ is a sinking ship, they have anime but do not promote it *EVER* Undead Unluck is a solid contender for "the big 3" if that's still a thing in WJS and nobody but hardcore manga fans even knew it came out, Akira Toriyama died, his last Work Sand Land airing on D+, you'd think they'd bother at the very least tweeting about it, but noooooooo any Nip studio cutting deals with Disney is courting Bankrupsy, they should learn from Miyasaki and tell western execs to take a hike along with their unwarranted sugestions
They are gaming the stock market. Gaming is popular so we have to buy into it, one of the most popular games. Oh, and now anime is popular so we have to buy into it and have it on our platform. It's like it's run by lawyers, stock market experts, PR people with the degree in sociology and politics, and last but not least algorithms (autocomplete wanted to write alcoholism, which is maybe not wrong).
I mean tbf there's always been adults watching anime, now if the headline said something along the lines of "Japan no longer the biggest demographic for anime, then that would be a different story.
The worst thing is you might be right, Vee. Japanese animation studios are overworked and underpaid. If they were offered big money in exchange for DEI practices and self-censorship, they would probably take it.
Disney might have influence on the anime adaptations, but the manga and light novel source materials will be mostly untouched, because their primary audience is japanese and free market of ideas is still rule of the land there. The audience will let the author knows real fast if they start doing aome shenanigans.
Anime is more for everyone than any western media because anyone can watch anime or read manga, meanwhile western media is constantly kicking people out of their fandoms for opinions.
Be a smart guy like me and only read manga and Light novels. Ahead of the curve, baby, they'll never shit up the manga as a whole, the industry is mainly indie, it's only when they stat getting animated adaptions is when concessions and compromises start to be made; it's probably at least a 60/40 in favor of adaptions making a worse product than the source.
Having a strong indie scene is the only defense against these vermin. Gaming corpos bent the knee because the community has hundreds of great indie games. In Japan anime is often made after a manga (often doujin/indie) becomes successful, in top of that new IPs are being created all the time. This means their DEI infection tactics won't work there. If they ruin a franchise to the point it dies, the entire industry will shun them.
Invencible's case was quite funny since it shows that they decided to make changes without thoroughly reading the source material- they tried to make Amber a girl boss without realizing that A) everybody would hate her, and B) she wouldn't be relevant in the story for long.
Also notice, mecha andmagical girl not there, you could include it, in sci fi and magic, but used to be the genres that were sinonims of anime, now gone
I hate to say this but the spider in So I'm a Spider, So What is gay. I'm not saying this to say you're wrong,but to point out how good writing can take something that you don't like in other entertainment and make it better to watch. The anime doesn't go into detail about this subject because it's based on the first 5 light novels. In the novels after the anime White does make it clear that she has no romantic feelings toward men, but she doesn't have any hatred or malice to them ether. The novels don't say she's gay but they do heavily imply it. Still she does form friendships with some of the male characters and treats them with respect, something strong gay women in western entertainment don't.
The problem was never gay characters, black characters whatever, if one has a problem with that, that's their problem. The problem is taking some old work, race swapping, sexuality swapping, or whatever. Just because, and then re-releasing it to an audience that didn't ask for it. And also, limiting the creative and artistic scope of new content to align it with their own worldviews, and again releasing it to an audience that didn't ask for all this.
@@grayraven2418 It's a slightly different issue but shippers [and people who are big on yuri] have harmed the industry IMO. There are a lot of examples of character writing in a series where characters have their writing utterly dominated by some dumb ship with no chemistry and it's often done with yuri ships. Even if there IS chemistry there's a tendency for a series that might have a fully dynamic character who interacts with the entire cast in one season be reduced to just "oh she gets shipped with this character" as the primary usage in the next. There even are instances of perfectly fine friendships being written where the confirmation that there's explicit romance between the characters just makes it come across as kinda lame. I don't know how to put it, but changing a dynamic from platonic to romantic does inherently shift how it gets perceived. In this sort of case it's an instance of people in the industry being TOO fixated on just delivering "what the audience wants." People crap on romances in a lot of shonen/harem series but frankly the average "yuribait" is just as bad - or in many times it's even worse.
Hahaha, Romance in 2nd place. Well there were many good romance comedies recently. I laugh cause: This is only genre with about 50/50 split on gender of the readers. There are even titles 'mostly girls' like to read ("Violet Evergarden", "Magus Bride", "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!" to name the few), or titles mostly men consume but have massive following with females like stories of Komi, Nagatoro and Uzaki. Heck even things like "Spice And Wolf". I find it fascinating that all those titles are different. Some vastly. But all is romance and thus something Marvel and DC claimed to aim for: a titles widely read by female audiences around the world.
Heck I even realized: It might not be a 'Romance' .... kinda is, but "Gushing Over Magical Girls" also has large portion of female readers... basically all female closet perverts, or not so closet ones who are into anime/manga and/or magical girls trope.
I was a sci-fi junkie too, but it was the first genre to be completely overrun with Progressivism. I guess due to its inherent aspect of futurism, which is often coupled with utopian, and dystopian themes. I still mourn old school Trek though…
I was the same as Vee. Back when I was 8 I didn’t like watching cartoons. I was more interested in cool stuff… like saving private Ryan, 300 and Zulu. Proper, wholesome content. I actually got into anime because arch talked about the saga of Tanya the evil during the claws of the eagle character creation session. Since arch’s world holds some weight to me, I decided to watch it. Never looked back and now I’m all in.
Guess we'll have to quaduple down on the gatekeeping. I thought it was bad enough when the normies claimed they were anime fans after watching a few episodes of MHA (only to go twitter freak mode when they reach the bathhouse episodes). Now we'll have to deal with a massive wave of tourists...
The reaction to this article and survey has been funny. If any western entertainment industry had 66% of the youth watching their programs they would literally kill for it. Yet because it's anime people are surprised not every teenager watches it. In America only 48% of youth play sports even less when it comes to football. Manga has always been the cultural icon in Japan not anime. With 60-66% of the overall population reading manga and only 36% watch anime. There have been more anime making it into main stream in last five years or so then anytime I can remember. The survey is also misleading as SJ survey's have shown over 30% of their readers are over 30 and that has remained constant for twenty years. Imo the only reason were seeing this now in the numbers is more people in Japan are being honest about what they watch as it's carrying less stigma.
Super Dimension Fortress Macross. It was the FIRST anime that introduced ROMANCE into my childhood. It taught the young me to choose the right girl to stick with than simping to an IDOL that will NEVER CARE about you, no matter how it may appear.
I was just reading a Manga. and I DON'T read Manga lol But there were only 2 seasons of Seraph of the End are there are like 130+ chapters and each chapter is LONG too. ' So yeah you're right. Japanese entertainment will take over; it's about quality. The sheer volume of the series as well is nice because it gives you tons and tons and tons of unique stories that can really get your bang for your time.
Dark Colored Stone Money isn't infinite though so if they kept on chasing the audience that had moved away so much, in the long run they'll be out of funding for that. Also speaking of Invincible, I can't help but noticing that every female character in that show somehow has almost the same identical facial structure with minimum differences inbetween them for some reason.
It's funny how surveys and polls always seem to have a 2% or other small percentage that isn't covered. Like this one, 98.7%... so 1.3% are neither teenagers or adults? With them showing their data it's questionable whether they actually polled anyone outside of their office.
If you are an anime fan, start buying your favorite shows on physical media. They may not be available in the long run on streaming, especially if the mind parasite from California spreads to Japan.
I've actually fallen out of love with anime with certain trends and have gotten into Kdramas, but with some things Netflix has been inserting into even some really good K dramas I'll give South Korea maybe 1-2 more years before they suck too >_>
I'm a 46 year old old giant nerd. I own thousands of dollars of 40k mini's, I used to play DnD on the regular, been a gamer since my folks bought our first atari 5200 when I was about 5. I never understood the anime thing then I saw Chainsaw Man. I think I get it now. No woke BS, no DEI or forced diversity. Just a boy trying to touch a boob.
One Korean anime movie I recommend is called Ghost messenger or messengers I believe. Id call it an edgier but not necessarily darker take on the tokusatsu boy finds a magical cell phone capable of imprisoning/killing demonic spirits and is forced to worked with one of the professional spirit/demon hunters. I won't spoil the ending but I hope it gets a sequel someday given how vague the ending is I plan on rewatching it today
I believe... I must believe that this Yhwach (ユーハバッハ) fella from Bleach with *clearly* german aesthetics to his empire was achually a black trans POC! And let noone tell you otherwise! P. S. We wuz Sternritters and shiet...
Don't worry China makes animation and are slowly getting better at it, if you can handle Chinese voice actors. Don't forget, China has a big drive to bring masculinity back.
Most Chinese stuff seems to be Romance of the Three Kingdoms-derived with bishounen fanservice-y stuff for males are almost absent and those few are often badly drawn and even have pacing issues.
Have you noticed many old animes, 80s, featured ADULT characters, while during 90s anime characters became more younger and younger? As if the message was "do not grow up". Even in the Evangelion 0.0 reboot movies ending I thought as a homage and thanks to the ORIGINAL fans, Shinji would grow up and have around 40 years, instead he ended being still a kid, not growing up... As if that was the message 🤔😑
No, it's just back then westerners AKA you guys didn't pay attention to characters' canonical ages. For example, Castlevania's Alucard is physically 17, and Asura in Kujaku Ou, who has plenty of nude scenes, is 12 to 15 (yes, wide range because the anime screws up the manga order). Nowadays, westerners AKA you guys are so obsessed in finding out the "real ages" of characters so you can call the true fans AKA people, like me, pdfs.
well, more kids are watching anime than cartoons, and the teens from the 2000s who watched anime grew up, so the poll is probably accurate. anime is by far the most popular thing FOR ALL AGES.
Weirdly enough, my own 'best romance story' ends up being G Gundam. Yes, really, Domon and Rain isn't the center of the plot, but it's a great execution on a classic romance story concept. (The man focused on his ambition to the point he doesn't understand the woman who pursues him is interested, and then struggles with reciprocating even after he does realize it.)
Lately you often mention China movies and culture, along with other asian countries, but I have to ask, what chinese film or series came out that is popular anywhere else? You are right that they cast the most beautiful people possible in their stuff, but that's about it. The CCP stranglehold on their media is massive, with most of the big budget stuff being propaganda and knockoffs of western stuff, and the censorship and requirements creatives there have to follow are massively cumbersome, no way you can express how you really feel in art over there.
I'm still not that big on anime, my escapism is just going back to old stuff. Stuff that I missed or that I didn't appreciate when it was new. And stuff that I want to re-experience after so many years.
the only silver lining to this is sony and disney are getting on late and they're suffering money wise and japan like square is already seeing the faults of american entertainment and turning around. so hopefully we won't get this crap
My Hero Academia portrays "American Number One Hero" as an eight foot tall ogre lady with muscles bigger than her male counterparts. She comes in and talks a big game, but only lasts two episodes before she dies. Doesn't kill her target. The American Males around her talk her up as having surpassed All Might anyway. What did Japan mean by this?
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We keep trying to flee toxic Western media, and toxic Western media keeps following us.
Pippin also thought that running away was a viable strategy: "We've got the Shire. Maybe we should go.", then Merry set him straight: "Fires of Isengard will spread and the woods of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn, and all that was once green and good in this world will be gone. There won't BE a Shire, Pippin."
It's time for you guys to fight against these people,they want it so bad.
@GeneralProfessor Fighting them consists of not buying the trash and only buying good products. Maybe for some, like Eric July, it's creating new entertainment companies. I can't exactly take the battle to their strongholds. I think the authorities would frown on that.
@@LetholdusKaspyrIt also consists of calling out and mocking nonsense content for what it is. Don’t let the normies think that nonsense is acceptable.
@@paule4566 True that. That's the only way Western entertainment gives me a chuckle these days.
Next,they will claim "anime wasn't made for you"
At least thats true, for once, since it was made for japanese.
yes they can say that by pointing out how the style of anime wasn't made to look human but based off animals to make them look cuter, hence forth it's for furries which are also lgbtqabcdefghijklmnoprstuvxyz
@@AlexAlex-zt3hi plot twist
They tell the Japanese anime isn’t made for them when they inevitably complain about anime being ruined by Baka gaijin
“It wasn’t made for you, it was made for me me me me ME!”
Journo: "anime wasn't made for you"
Anime enjoyer: "but was it made for you?"
Journo: "y-yes, isn't that right anime studio?"
Studio: "I don't even know who any of you are **adds jiggle to milkies** "
None of our stuff is working! We are losing money! Lets take the Japanese stuff that is making money! wE cAn dO iT bEtTeR tHoUgH!
Cringe
Sums up 2024 pretty well right there. Good Lord do I miss the 90's.
In before: "Uchiha Madara was always black and trans."
'wHaT Do YoU MeAn hE's tHe bAd GuY?'
Uchiha *MADEA*
Hell no. Don't give them ideas
The actual Madara would have no problems dealing with such people.
The best part about hating shounen and loving obscure niche anime is that they will be the last ones that get ruined.
Evil cannot create, it can only self-insert itself as Mary Jane in the new Spider-Man 2 game.
Anime was never only for "teens", it's always been a genre for all.
It is a medium.
Animation in general.
There's a reason Animes and Mangas got 2 tags: *_"Shonen"_* and *_"Seinen"_*
@@moisesezequielgutierrez Forgot about Shoujo and Josei?
Yup, that's what makes anime so great,they have a lot of genres unlike western animation
Shounen is for teens seinen is for adults
The whole 'hey lets change this popular thing so its more popular why is everybody leaving' has been going on so long it is really tiring.
Its tiring but they keep doing it, either we fight this sh1t or let them have everything
Agreed
"There is no perfect spaghetti sauce, only perfect spaghetti sauces"
Or maybe from the helldivers devs, "a game for everyone is a game for no one."
Basically, you can't make something that appeals to everyone.
@@talkingtakotaco8611 I literally learned that lesson with spaghetti sauce. Half family loved it and other half didn't. So I changed it a bit for next time and other half family loved it and ones loved first one didn't. I just couldn't win.
Can't wait for them to try to remake "Gushing Over Magical Girls" for the modern audience. 🤣
Easy. You make a live action. You rename the show "Cutie 2", and all the progressive people will cheer.
@@saekashiwagi5829 A live action magical girl series could actually be really adorable. But I don't think I'd feel comfortable with it using actual child actors. Too much potential for exploitation, too much potential for actual perverts to create problems, too much potential for it to really screw the actors up in the head later down the road. And it wouldn't be the same with adult actors. It certainly doesn't help that magical girl stories are often about coming of age, so whether metaphorically or literally they often do deal with sexual themes to one degree or another. Making it a cartoon allows you to have characters who are teens or preteens without putting any actual children in any danger.
i dont know what that is, but im going to look it up
More like delete it from existence
@thefool8224 Its borderline hentai. But Utena is too cute to not watch it.
We NEED a return of the classic 80s anime. Rock, metal, demons, derangement, big hair, big attitudes and stories that make the twilight zone, slasher flicks and robocop look tame.
we have transgender story hour, the modern world may be lacking in many things but demons ain't among them
Japan would have to change for that to happen. The culture isn't there.
The list started so agreeable, FOR *TWO ITEMS*
XD
Censorship regulations inside of Japan from the 90's and 2000''s prevents that. Also, Japanese audiences today are too soft towards their characters dying or being shat at (A light novel got cancelled because expies of popular isekai characters were made evil).
@@hoppy8008 wasn't there an anime with something like that? The Isekai'd were the bad guys??
There is literally an anime where a Grandparent couple eat a golden apple and turn young again, enjoying their renewed youth but still living their normal lives as old-folk. Yet, the antics also have insightful moments of love, aging, contemplation of death, and retrospection. Western media can't even seem to get reboots of old shows right. Or respect those older shows either.
Western shows are completely unable to display death and how to deal with it.
That’s almost it’s own genre in Japan, mono no aware, the pathos of things.
Prime examples were anohana, plastic memories, your lie in April and so many more.
It’s almost impossible to find this I. Western media these days.
Hell even Lion King dealt with it a bit. Mufasa didn’t come back, he was dead, and Simba had to deal with it.
We were teenagers when we fell in love with anime, and now we're adults in love with anime
modern anime is cringe asf so honeslty people should stay away from you, you probably type like the jap school girl too
😸 Yeah, that's all it is really!
This is what escapism looks like. There is no other media.
Anime unironically has the most in Depth stories to ever exist in Media.
@@refugeehugsforfree4151 My IRL friends look at me weird when I state that I read Saya no Uta for the story hahaha. I think you need to go back to 90's tv for those type of weird sci-fi romance horrors or things like Tales from the Crypt-keeper . The east tends to be far more creative when it comes to story these days.
@@refugeehugsforfree4151 Berserk for example.
Do not gatekeep only, physical media is important; gatekeep AND archive, because they are definitely are aiming to erase what doesn't suit their worldview.
archive sites are under attack as we speak
100%
@@thefool8224 I meant using physical media like external hard drives to archive.
@@GreatRottweiler i know. but you can only backup so many things on your own.
@@thefool8224 Whatever you can, no matter how much or how little, I'm archiving whatever I can, been doing it for a while, the goal is for people to archive the classics before companies start trying to scrub from the internet from anything that doesn't align with their worldview and replace it with curated content they want, especially old/classic animes.
Most romance anime with male protagonist, written by men. Most romance anime with female protagonist, written by women.
I mean, that makes sense.
@@AVRGWIBWTHACN
Well, not for Vee, apparently. 😄
But you find them on 🐔tai
best loli romance with male protagonist written by women
@@m.thorton9305
There is plenty of non-loli romance stories with male protagonists written by women. Doesnt mean they are majority.
People are just enjoying old-fashioned escapism.
That’s why you can have both a fantastic bombastic like Godzilla x Kong at the same time as a slow thriller like Godzilla minus one.
Neither one sat the audience down and attempted to have a “dialogue” about pastel people in Palpatine/Isntreal or some garbage.
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🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
I was born into regularly watching anime.
But that being said, what age you are when you get into it, like any hobby, doesnt matter.
The only thing that matters is your passion and authenticity.
Lame-o poser commies have neither.
I was in basic school, before 1st grade, back in the mid to late 90s when I first glimpsed Princess Mononoke and Birdy the Mighty. The it was Dragon Ball and Metropolis and cyborg 009 and bunch of others I can't remember when I was in primary school. Didn't take it on as a hobby til I was in high school.
@@spykemxd Anime was my Saturday morning cartoons because that is when they aired in my country, If I wanted see American shows and cartoons I had to tune into AFN, signal was sketchy. Back when we all still had rabbit ears on our TV. I wish it never got as popular as it has in the west. To many people now watch it and don't respect it. Same issue happened with American Shows.
@@aj.j5833 rabbit ears antenna... brings back memories...
Anime is no longer for teens. Yeah, it's called growing up and taking your hobbies with you.
there are enough anime for adults to keep me interested.
I think the difference is that the biggest part of the audience was teens, and now it isn't. It's not that much of a shift, though.
As an example; my nephew was talking about My Hero Academia one day. I had never seen it, because I don't like following hype-trends in any kind of media, so if I ever do watch a hit-anime, it is way after it is done. Anyways, I decided to check it out after he talked highly of it. I was hooked right away. Watched seasons 1-6 in like, a month. I was excited to meet up with him one day to talk to him about the entire series and what we both liked about it... turns out, he only watched the first season after moving on to something else (non-anime). I'm 44, he is 17. Hell, I connected more with my g/f about the show than I did with him, and she is 26. So yeah, the hard support of anime and manga being mostly from previous generations, is no surprise.
Never was, it was mostly Otakus. Or who do you think can pay 3000 yen for an episode as DVD?
One piece first aired in 1997 and is still ongoing and engaging. Anime watchers just grew up with their shows.
In Japan this was already the case for at least a generation.
Hence the otaku trope character always being middle aged or college aged.
Since you mentioned some sci-fi, may I recommend "Legend of the Galactic Heroes". This is seriously underrated.
i've seen memes of over-weight naked woman of that show😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
its one of the best military politics story show, the 90s version is better than the remake version, its nearly the same but the only difference in remake version is they added the war on giant ball fortress.
@@clairestanfield-ui1fgI don’t remember any overweight naked women in it?
Crest of the stars is another space opera that is very good
@zonzillamagnus5902 Julian is researching history, and there's a brief image of a bunch of guys partying and the fat lady is entertaining them.
My dad tried out watching anime all on his own (it was Kaiju No. 8, by the way). Yeah, the entertainment industry is in dire straits.
Did he like it?
@@MegaCevr Didn’t ask.
that one's been good so far. also, has a protag over 30 which is refreshing and might be related
I love this one, it's really great, they added hidden parts not in the manga, Kafka is hilarous, and i'm a women
>""new survey""
where? i bet that's doesnt even exist.
You know you and the 18 upvoters could bother reading.
4:30 "per japanese PR agency PR Times, a survey conducted by Japanese research company Dream Train Internet Co."
Y'all mfers have gotten lazy as hell. 4channers put more effort than this like come on
This is what happens when you rush to comment without even watching the video.
@@M_CFV the whole article didn't site its ""survey"". just claims.
not completely vee' fault.
Have you ever heard about manga demographic classification? Like Shonen (teenage Boy); Shojo (Teenage Girl); Sheinen (Adult Men); Josei (Adult Women); Kodomumuke (Children under 10)
I 100% agree. Increasingly western media for me has become less relatable and appealing to creativity/fantasy ideas in my opinion. it's hard to watch a lot of shows without thinking about the agenda. You're especially right about the romance too, I feel like romances or just shows with a "love interest" are so much less common and well thought out compared to anime. It would be sad too if a lot of shows get westernized because I feel like anime has been getting better and better and I want it to grow with its target audience and not the top execs that want to latch onto the the new popular thing.
Though Anastasia isn't a Disney movie, given that 20th Century Fox is now owned by Disney, I guess it can be seen as a Disney movie nowadays.
Ugh
Teddy would've break Disney into tiny little pieces.
I was into my thirties when I "discovered" anime, that was about 20 years ago. Still watching a fair amount of it, spanning most genres, though I'll admit to a certain long lasting preference for isekai. Last few years has been incredibly busy with isekai shows though, very varying quality.
You referenced Kumoko a bit, I liked the bits about her a lot, she was funny, and the battles were a blast - but my God the other half of the show, about her class-mates were SUCH A DRAG.
One of my all time favourite anime movies, a Drama, bit of a tear jerker really "A Silent Voice"
The manga it was partially basing itself on decided to not copy the original author's light novel and instead focused purely on Kumoko from the start, you get little end-of-chapter flashes to other characters just to keep you up to date on their progress but not entire chapters since the story is about Kumoko.
A 50 year old liking Isekai is crazy, I respect you though.
As an 18 year old it's probably my least favorite genre, I'm more of a fan of Slice of Life/CGDCT animes/manga.
if you liked silent voice, i recommend the author's other series "to your eternity". the premise and main char are wonderful and the series is just as tear-jerking.
We'll avenge anime, if they destroy it.
I've been watching anime since I was a teenager (or as a kid if you count heavily-localized shows like Robotech). Now I'm just a few months away from turning 50 and I have no intention of stopping watching anime.
That explains why some old animes got toned down in the recent seasons.
VEE IS WATCHING "SO I'M A SPIDER SO WHAT" LETS GOOOOOOOO
get him into INUYASHIKI
too much CG, and too OP
@@renaissancenovice7202 It's like the Binding of Isaac. The run goes on until you die or get OP enough to actually win. :P
"she is a spider she dosen't have boobies" ... well about that ...
Anime is a bit diffrent since it's based on light novels and manga as source material, and the authors aren't exactly dead so they can't just dance on their corpse like in the west.
And light novels and manga compete on a ruthless Free Market, if you are no popular enough you get axed so only the fittest will survive. Especially getting an anime is an achievement.
So it's unlikely they are going to fuck up all the studios, only "some", more likely anime originals.
Animators and Voice Actors also have their own cliques so it's unlikely projects are going to get much traction in terms of attracting talents even if they throw in a bunch of money.
Yup, and there's alot of studios they'd have to corrupt and still new ones popping up, as opposed to the west, where you could count the mainstream studios on one hand.
I want to know how the manga industry can make better looking stuff on a shoestring budget than the Western comic book industry with wads of cash from Blackrock.
At the cost of workers not always paid well for long hours.
By not coloring and using "worse" paper
You'd be surprised how much additional time and effort that takes in comparison to just keeping things black and white, so all that effort can go other places like story and overall art quality
Definitely a bad idea
"She doesn't have booba" shh no one tell him
Vee, Anastasia is Don Bluth, not Disney.
But it was distributed by 20th Century Fox, and who owns 20th Century Fox now?
@@cossacktwofive4974 ugh
Disney+ is a sinking ship, they have anime but do not promote it *EVER*
Undead Unluck is a solid contender for "the big 3" if that's still a thing in WJS and nobody but hardcore manga fans even knew it came out, Akira Toriyama died, his last Work Sand Land airing on D+, you'd think they'd bother at the very least tweeting about it, but noooooooo
any Nip studio cutting deals with Disney is courting Bankrupsy, they should learn from Miyasaki and tell western execs to take a hike along with their unwarranted sugestions
The moment Sand Land leaves Disney plus, it will do gangbusters.
@@manoftruth0935 by the time it does anyone who may have actually cared will have already torrented it or streamed a fansub
They are gaming the stock market. Gaming is popular so we have to buy into it, one of the most popular games. Oh, and now anime is popular so we have to buy into it and have it on our platform.
It's like it's run by lawyers, stock market experts, PR people with the degree in sociology and politics, and last but not least algorithms (autocomplete wanted to write alcoholism, which is maybe not wrong).
The cal arts style (AKA bean mouth) is just so exhausting to keep seeing.
I mean tbf there's always been adults watching anime, now if the headline said something along the lines of "Japan no longer the biggest demographic for anime, then that would be a different story.
Western media: Ginger, did I just catch you watching anime?
The worst thing is you might be right, Vee. Japanese animation studios are overworked and underpaid. If they were offered big money in exchange for DEI practices and self-censorship, they would probably take it.
The only thing to protect it is the creators but western cultural mindset might crush that.
@@xo-1320 Starvation makes beasts out of men, or so I heard.
Disney might have influence on the anime adaptations, but the manga and light novel source materials will be mostly untouched, because their primary audience is japanese and free market of ideas is still rule of the land there. The audience will let the author knows real fast if they start doing aome shenanigans.
At least we will still have manga, indie games and eroges at least till they decide to take them away too.
Hold the line and the gates
Anime is more for everyone than any western media because anyone can watch anime or read manga, meanwhile western media is constantly kicking people out of their fandoms for opinions.
CantT wait for the Akira reboot with Kaneda being a black lesbian trans-woman who rides a wheelchair bike.
They've always had "disneyfied" 'anime'. It's called Studio Ghibli.
At least that one was better, especially with the Studio's policy of "No Cuts". Their movies are no longer distributed by Disney though.
It's very funny Disney did worked with Studio Ghibli in the past for dubbed and distribution
No, Miyazaki also pretty much hates the West due to some weird WW2 grudge.
especially ghibli fanbase
@@m.thorton9305 Not every Ghibli movie is good , Ghibli movie is just work of art.
The question is how does Disney have infinite money? Are they just printing Disney bucks and somehow it became legal tender?
"she's a spider, she has no boobies"
vee... you have to watch anime until the end...
Be a smart guy like me and only read manga and Light novels. Ahead of the curve, baby, they'll never shit up the manga as a whole, the industry is mainly indie, it's only when they stat getting animated adaptions is when concessions and compromises start to be made; it's probably at least a 60/40 in favor of adaptions making a worse product than the source.
Having a strong indie scene is the only defense against these vermin. Gaming corpos bent the knee because the community has hundreds of great indie games. In Japan anime is often made after a manga (often doujin/indie) becomes successful, in top of that new IPs are being created all the time. This means their DEI infection tactics won't work there. If they ruin a franchise to the point it dies, the entire industry will shun them.
Invencible's case was quite funny since it shows that they decided to make changes without thoroughly reading the source material- they tried to make Amber a girl boss without realizing that A) everybody would hate her, and B) she wouldn't be relevant in the story for long.
Also notice, mecha andmagical girl not there, you could include it, in sci fi and magic, but used to be the genres that were sinonims of anime, now gone
I hate to say this but the spider in So I'm a Spider, So What is gay. I'm not saying this to say you're wrong,but to point out how good writing can take something that you don't like in other entertainment and make it better to watch. The anime doesn't go into detail about this subject because it's based on the first 5 light novels. In the novels after the anime White does make it clear that she has no romantic feelings toward men, but she doesn't have any hatred or malice to them ether. The novels don't say she's gay but they do heavily imply it. Still she does form friendships with some of the male characters and treats them with respect, something strong gay women in western entertainment don't.
The problem was never gay characters, black characters whatever, if one has a problem with that, that's their problem.
The problem is taking some old work, race swapping, sexuality swapping, or whatever. Just because, and then re-releasing it to an audience that didn't ask for it.
And also, limiting the creative and artistic scope of new content to align it with their own worldviews, and again releasing it to an audience that didn't ask for all this.
@@grayraven2418 It's a slightly different issue but shippers [and people who are big on yuri] have harmed the industry IMO.
There are a lot of examples of character writing in a series where characters have their writing utterly dominated by some dumb ship with no chemistry and it's often done with yuri ships. Even if there IS chemistry there's a tendency for a series that might have a fully dynamic character who interacts with the entire cast in one season be reduced to just "oh she gets shipped with this character" as the primary usage in the next.
There even are instances of perfectly fine friendships being written where the confirmation that there's explicit romance between the characters just makes it come across as kinda lame. I don't know how to put it, but changing a dynamic from platonic to romantic does inherently shift how it gets perceived.
In this sort of case it's an instance of people in the industry being TOO fixated on just delivering "what the audience wants." People crap on romances in a lot of shonen/harem series but frankly the average "yuribait" is just as bad - or in many times it's even worse.
All good things must come to an end, so cherish what we have so we can rebuild after the storm.
Looking at the prices for anime in Japan: is anyone surprised that anime isn‘t really targeted at teenagers?
Hahaha, Romance in 2nd place. Well there were many good romance comedies recently.
I laugh cause: This is only genre with about 50/50 split on gender of the readers. There are even titles 'mostly girls' like to read ("Violet Evergarden", "Magus Bride", "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!" to name the few), or titles mostly men consume but have massive following with females like stories of Komi, Nagatoro and Uzaki. Heck even things like "Spice And Wolf".
I find it fascinating that all those titles are different. Some vastly. But all is romance and thus something Marvel and DC claimed to aim for: a titles widely read by female audiences around the world.
Heck I even realized: It might not be a 'Romance' .... kinda is, but "Gushing Over Magical Girls" also has large portion of female readers... basically all female closet perverts, or not so closet ones who are into anime/manga and/or magical girls trope.
I was a sci-fi junkie too, but it was the first genre to be completely overrun with Progressivism. I guess due to its inherent aspect of futurism, which is often coupled with utopian, and dystopian themes.
I still mourn old school Trek though…
It’s time to stop running and time to start pushing back.
Become a creator of media, or fight for the IPs still existing.
We need more ultranationalistic animes, Vee.
❤
I was the same as Vee. Back when I was 8 I didn’t like watching cartoons. I was more interested in cool stuff… like saving private Ryan, 300 and Zulu. Proper, wholesome content.
I actually got into anime because arch talked about the saga of Tanya the evil during the claws of the eagle character creation session. Since arch’s world holds some weight to me, I decided to watch it. Never looked back and now I’m all in.
Guess we'll have to quaduple down on the gatekeeping.
I thought it was bad enough when the normies claimed they were anime fans after watching a few episodes of MHA (only to go twitter freak mode when they reach the bathhouse episodes). Now we'll have to deal with a massive wave of tourists...
The reaction to this article and survey has been funny. If any western entertainment industry had 66% of the youth watching their programs they would literally kill for it. Yet because it's anime people are surprised not every teenager watches it. In America only 48% of youth play sports even less when it comes to football. Manga has always been the cultural icon in Japan not anime. With 60-66% of the overall population reading manga and only 36% watch anime. There have been more anime making it into main stream in last five years or so then anytime I can remember. The survey is also misleading as SJ survey's have shown over 30% of their readers are over 30 and that has remained constant for twenty years. Imo the only reason were seeing this now in the numbers is more people in Japan are being honest about what they watch as it's carrying less stigma.
Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
It was the FIRST anime that introduced ROMANCE into my childhood.
It taught the young me to choose the right girl to stick with than simping to an IDOL that will NEVER CARE about you, no matter how it may appear.
There's a reason one of the laws of anime is 'Minmay is a bimbo.'
I was just reading a Manga. and I DON'T read Manga lol
But there were only 2 seasons of Seraph of the End are there are like 130+ chapters and each chapter is LONG too. '
So yeah you're right. Japanese entertainment will take over; it's about quality. The sheer volume of the series as well is nice because it gives you tons and tons and tons of unique stories that can really get your bang for your time.
Dark Colored Stone Money isn't infinite though so if they kept on chasing the audience that had moved away so much, in the long run they'll be out of funding for that.
Also speaking of Invincible, I can't help but noticing that every female character in that show somehow has almost the same identical facial structure with minimum differences inbetween them for some reason.
I for one don't want to lose Glorious Nippon. I will fight on their behalf.
Get ready for more high guardian spice.
It's funny how surveys and polls always seem to have a 2% or other small percentage that isn't covered. Like this one, 98.7%... so 1.3% are neither teenagers or adults? With them showing their data it's questionable whether they actually polled anyone outside of their office.
Reverse age pyramid, can't have stuff for young people if there is no young people. Simple really.
100%
If you are an anime fan, start buying your favorite shows on physical media. They may not be available in the long run on streaming, especially if the mind parasite from California spreads to Japan.
I've actually fallen out of love with anime with certain trends and have gotten into Kdramas, but with some things Netflix has been inserting into even some really good K dramas I'll give South Korea maybe 1-2 more years before they suck too >_>
I'm a 46 year old old giant nerd. I own thousands of dollars of 40k mini's, I used to play DnD on the regular, been a gamer since my folks bought our first atari 5200 when I was about 5. I never understood the anime thing then I saw Chainsaw Man. I think I get it now. No woke BS, no DEI or forced diversity. Just a boy trying to touch a boob.
This season I've noticed a definite uptick of progressive politics in shows on Crunchyroll, and not just the ones marketed as being for gay people.
The US government would absolutely not let the free market decide when a company like Disney is involved
you will see old anime return, immediately thinks of The Devil Is a Part-Timer and now the new spice and wolf
RIP
Put me into this bucket too Vee
500 people? That's such a tiny sample size...
Disney can't keep losing money forever...
In Japan "anime" is the term for ALL animation homegrown or otherwise.
One Korean anime movie I recommend is called Ghost messenger or messengers I believe.
Id call it an edgier but not necessarily darker take on the tokusatsu boy finds a magical cell phone capable of imprisoning/killing demonic spirits and is forced to worked with one of the professional spirit/demon hunters.
I won't spoil the ending but I hope it gets a sequel someday given how vague the ending is I plan on rewatching it today
I believe... I must believe that this Yhwach (ユーハバッハ) fella from Bleach with *clearly* german aesthetics to his empire was achually a black trans POC! And let noone tell you otherwise!
P. S. We wuz Sternritters and shiet...
doubt it, japan knows what butters their bread
I had my own anime renaissance the moment I left the theater for Avengers Endgame.
Don't worry China makes animation and are slowly getting better at it, if you can handle Chinese voice actors. Don't forget, China has a big drive to bring masculinity back.
lmao how stupid do you have to be to claim to hate censorship and be pro-china 🤣🤣🤣🤣
nah, china will spam cultivation story like isekai or shoujo trope early 2010s
they have better animation but not the story
Most Chinese stuff seems to be Romance of the Three Kingdoms-derived with bishounen fanservice-y stuff for males are almost absent and those few are often badly drawn and even have pacing issues.
@@negirno yeah but it's probably growing surely they will make more stuff someday, china pretty rough on some of their censorship stuff though i guess
If Japan starts losing money listening to gamers, I see them getting pissed at the west and cutting contact with them.
Have you noticed many old animes, 80s, featured ADULT characters, while during 90s anime characters became more younger and younger? As if the message was "do not grow up".
Even in the Evangelion 0.0 reboot movies ending I thought as a homage and thanks to the ORIGINAL fans, Shinji would grow up and have around 40 years, instead he ended being still a kid, not growing up... As if that was the message 🤔😑
No, it's just back then westerners AKA you guys didn't pay attention to characters' canonical ages. For example, Castlevania's Alucard is physically 17, and Asura in Kujaku Ou, who has plenty of nude scenes, is 12 to 15 (yes, wide range because the anime screws up the manga order). Nowadays, westerners AKA you guys are so obsessed in finding out the "real ages" of characters so you can call the true fans AKA people, like me, pdfs.
4:32 she does have a human top half in her evolved form and becomes a "spider girl", so yes, she has mammary glands.
Because the only reasonable way to watch anime nowadays is to pirate it.
You can't find it on tv. Streaming services are all region locked.
Yo ho ho
well, more kids are watching anime than cartoons, and the teens from the 2000s who watched anime grew up, so the poll is probably accurate.
anime is by far the most popular thing FOR ALL AGES.
I switched to anime a few years back.
Anime is just better than western "The Message" slop
Your niche thing becoming
mainstream was never a good experience for everyone, but got exponentially worst in the age of woke.
The best romance story ive ever watched/read is Ranma 1/2.
Western Media WISHES it could write characters that deep, complex yet funny.
Weirdly enough, my own 'best romance story' ends up being G Gundam. Yes, really, Domon and Rain isn't the center of the plot, but it's a great execution on a classic romance story concept. (The man focused on his ambition to the point he doesn't understand the woman who pursues him is interested, and then struggles with reciprocating even after he does realize it.)
Lately you often mention China movies and culture, along with other asian countries, but I have to ask, what chinese film or series came out that is popular anywhere else? You are right that they cast the most beautiful people possible in their stuff, but that's about it. The CCP stranglehold on their media is massive, with most of the big budget stuff being propaganda and knockoffs of western stuff, and the censorship and requirements creatives there have to follow are massively cumbersome, no way you can express how you really feel in art over there.
5:54 @Vee: Try Sing a Bit of Harmony, Planetarian, and also Your Lie in April, for something emotional and for Romcom: Kaguya Sama
I'm still not that big on anime, my escapism is just going back to old stuff. Stuff that I missed or that I didn't appreciate when it was new. And stuff that I want to re-experience after so many years.
the only silver lining to this is sony and disney are getting on late and they're suffering money wise and japan like square is already seeing the faults of american entertainment and turning around. so hopefully we won't get this crap
I wouldn’t mind an anime with Syd Barrett or Roky Erickson on the soundtrack.
My Hero Academia portrays "American Number One Hero" as an eight foot tall ogre lady with muscles bigger than her male counterparts. She comes in and talks a big game, but only lasts two episodes before she dies. Doesn't kill her target. The American Males around her talk her up as having surpassed All Might anyway.
What did Japan mean by this?
Question is if Disney will implode or be couped by more pragmatic individuals before that happens.
It may not happen if the transition to anime takes a few years.
The writing is on the wall in Hollywood, money has been lost