• UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The industry, over time, found what sold the most merch and kept focusing on that, in a copy-of-a-copy practice that Miyazaki warned about. :miyazaki-laugh:

    • InvaderZinn [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Bit idea: We become boomers of the anime medium and claim that the CHUDs into the lolis are just normies that only came in when anime became sanitized for westerners.

      I could actually see something like this finally getting under their skin.

    • MeltyBloodPlayer [it/its,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      It's true. A lot of these shows aren't even anything like their source material. They're just commercials to sell merchandise. It's really depressing.

    • geikei [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      That was always what the industry did and tried to do. In the 70s to early 80s half of all shows were super robot shows with similar designs and stories. Its nothing new. The industry and production situations today are indeed much worse and ready to implode but not because tv animation became more comercialized