Why are Hexbearers complaining about this? I come here literally to talk to intelligent adults.
There's nothing wrong with dumpy middle aged people in anime; I'm tired of the trope of employed children and I miss the 90's anime that had actual adults in it. Everything today is about unemployed children or employed children. I want adults in my anime.
Most likely the reason the main characters are kids is because the main demographic are young people, and chances are in 10+ years anime will be about adults again because their demographic has aged. I'm looking forward to that period but it's really far away.
it's all about the money. they want to go as extreme as possible to make sure the shitty people who are the only ones blowing millions of yen a year on figures buy from isekai harem shit #5 and not isekai harem shit #7.
the thing to feel hope about here is this is inherently unsustainable. there are only so many whales, and with more and more anime competing it's gotta crash at some point, especially with there being a hard ceiling for that sort of show that there isn't for anything with a hope of more mainstream success. chainsaw man may or may not take off in the west in a completely mainstream way, but it's actually possible for it to have a movie that makes 50 billion yen and have millions in worldwide merch in a way that fucking redo of healer will never be able to do.
basically my hope is that in a decade we'll be beyond this because it won't be profitable enough. this isn't to say anything like "it's ok to make borderline cp or rape apologia if it's purely mercenary" just my analysis as a weeb with too much time on her hands
also i typed all this on my phone twice because hexbear ate the first go
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What? Is there something wrong with 10,000 year old dragons that look like 8 year olds? That not visibly adult enough for you?
What if she looked like she was 10, would that make it better?
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Why are Hexbearers complaining about this? I come here literally to talk to intelligent adults.
There's nothing wrong with dumpy middle aged people in anime; I'm tired of the trope of employed children and I miss the 90's anime that had actual adults in it. Everything today is about unemployed children or employed children. I want adults in my anime.
Most likely the reason the main characters are kids is because the main demographic are young people, and chances are in 10+ years anime will be about adults again because their demographic has aged. I'm looking forward to that period but it's really far away.
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it's all about the money. they want to go as extreme as possible to make sure the shitty people who are the only ones blowing millions of yen a year on figures buy from isekai harem shit #5 and not isekai harem shit #7.
the thing to feel hope about here is this is inherently unsustainable. there are only so many whales, and with more and more anime competing it's gotta crash at some point, especially with there being a hard ceiling for that sort of show that there isn't for anything with a hope of more mainstream success. chainsaw man may or may not take off in the west in a completely mainstream way, but it's actually possible for it to have a movie that makes 50 billion yen and have millions in worldwide merch in a way that fucking redo of healer will never be able to do.
basically my hope is that in a decade we'll be beyond this because it won't be profitable enough. this isn't to say anything like "it's ok to make borderline cp or rape apologia if it's purely mercenary" just my analysis as a weeb with too much time on her hands
also i typed all this on my phone twice because hexbear ate the first go
In Japan, anime is targeted at basically all age groups and lots of the child stuff is targeted at adult men and women.