Jaded anime otaku
Hollywood has used the same mechanism in the past. They have a story to tell in a certain number of episodes and that’s it. While anime can do the same–ehem One Piece–most anime stories have definitive endings. Movies and television tend to milk stories until they shamble along as zombified shells of themselves.
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It helps because movies can tie into each other, but it hurts because story arcs lack definitive endings. Tapping into comic books for stories helps and hurts. Gollum was amazing in the Lord of the Rings series. And sometimes CGI can do what animation cannot. Hollywood may be tapping into comic books for stories, but American comic books lack the diversity manga enjoys. Beyond cost, anime taps into manga as source material, and manga offers a diverse range of stories to pick from. The lower cost allows studios to experiment more often because the bar for profitability is lower. It helps that anime is generally less expensive to produce than Hollywood films. That is why we often see off-the-wall stories like Dagashi Kashi with its focus on Japanese junk food. However, anime still tends to take more risks than Hollywood films. Anime shares these same concerns, and anime also suffers from sequelitis. After all, movies are expensive to make, and as a business, studios have to carefully balance profitability and storytelling.
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Aside from marketing, sequels have a built-in audience, and this makes them less of a risk. Some of this is because of the high cost of marketing. Lately, we’ve been buried in sequels of sequels to the point where it seems as if Hollywood doesn’t have original ideas. Let’s start with Hollywood’s fetish for sequels. I’ve touched on them before in various articles, but they are worth taking another look. some movies are good), but why is anime better? Actually, in all seriousness anime has advantages over the typical Hollywood movie.Let’s take a look at some of these advantages.
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We all know anime is better than Hollywood movies (okay, okay.