It doesn’t help that Hollywood has been gutted by being bought out by private equity over the past decade. Now they’re focussed on large, safe bets that make a quick buck. There’s little experimentation in movies any more
… yeah…
Experimentation and anime don’t go in the same sentence.
I like anime a lot. I think the reason it’s good is because you have a really big collection of manga that are effectively ready to go screenplay. The ones that make it into anime are the cream of the crop and then you pick out the good ones from them.
It’s happening parallel with indie games where you have a massive amount of content created with only the best of the best making it onto curated lists.
Hiatuses are more bearable too, since I can finish out the story through the manga or light novels lot of the times instead of being in two plus year long purgatory of not knowing what happens and forgetting the plot between seasons.
I’ve said it many times before:
any drawn or animated movie will have insanely more room to be creative than live action.
Anime has its own ‘standards’ and specifically japanese anime has categories with predefined mandatory parts (shonen trainings, slice of life beach episodes etc), but they are less afraid to experiment and not just tell a story, but utilize the drawings to show otherwise impossible scenes.
But, as with everything, not that many break the mold, and anime may seem incredible for the people who never experienced it, but after hundreds of shows you get that most of them are just meh, and the biggest shows can be very predictable.
I liked Demon Slayer, but it’s not very original. It was OK, some scenes had absolutely bonkers production quality (like the snowflake melting), but I did not get the hype. And because of that, I’m not going to watch the Chainsaw Man.
As someone who like the Chainsaw Man anime, you won’t be missing much.
I know that feeling.
There are some guilty pleasures of mine that I can’t recommend to anyone.
Though I’m done with demon slaying for a bit.
I prefer Chainsaw Man’s style over Demon Slayer’s. It also has a better story and it’s actually made to be a movie instead of a couple episodes stitched together to make a terribly paced film like Infinity Castle. No lengthy flashbacks that break momentum. And it really is a self-contained arc compared to Infinity Castle which is basically part 1 for the next season. I enjoyed Chainsaw Man way more. I know the other comment said don’t bother, but I do recommend to catch it in theaters if you are able to.
The biggest plus for anime is that even though it’s targeted for younger audiences, it expects the viewer to be more intelligent than a lot of recent western media. Even with the tropes, it’s enjoyable to watch.
Chainsaw man in imax is gonna be bonkers.
By why is the voice acting so over done? It’s seems like they’re always screaming with stupid voices. I can only take so much of that.
It’s Japanese culture thing for showing conviction if I’m guessing correctly which type of screaming you’re talking about.
Cultural difference. Never bothered me. To each their own.
Crazy that Demon Slayer is somehow leading this trend but if it works, I guess it works
They’ve been shitting out frequent movies on Pokemon, Naruto, One Piece, My Hero Academia over several decades that have always worked rather well with fans in Japan, but had a slower time making it outside; it feels like it’s been maybe a decade since they noticed the current biggest franchises had a real shot worldwide and putting more and more efforts in them. And it’s maybe because the Ghibli and the Shinkai movies in the last 3 decades have shown that people outside Japan do like anime movies when they’re really well done. Demon Slayer isn’t their first go, but maybe it’s the first real “anime movie from some popular manga,” not a big name like Ghibli, that movie people are really noticing. I think that’s where the trend is.
It’s like they know it’s about being entertaining not about pushing politics.
“anime isn’t political, I would be able to tell”
