Consequential decisions in recent anime history
I was thinking of different anime industry decisions which had a bigger impact on the industry and fans than originally planned. Here is a list I've come up with so far and would love to hear more.
Starting from oldest to most recent:
1. Dragon Ball Evolution (positive impact): A terrible movie but it was the tipping point to get Toriyama back to the series and get new content. It started out with OVA and then movies to eventual the dragon ball super manga and series. And the bigger impact it did was that it brought in so many older fans back into the anime world. Dragon ball is by no means a perfect anime, but it's fun, nostalgic and popular. Let's not forget crunchy roll being down almost every Saturday night during the ToP arc and the outdoor watch parties hosted across the world!
2. Attack on Titan seasonal (positive impact): I think when it was announced that attack on Titan would be made in seasons was a pretty new take at that time. Before anime series would continue and when it was close to catching up to the manga they would have to take breaks or introduce fillers. By splitting into seasons, the shows stay true to the source material and maintains quality. And now that seasonal shows are normalized, we're getting more an anime. It's good for the audience, but I admit, it does add pressure to the studios, so neg impact on them.
3. Demon Slayer Mugen Train being a movie (negative impact): When they announced that instead of season 2, they were going to make a movie instead, that was a very new concept. Typically movies used to be fillers, just for fun content, but a movie that's actually cannon was fairly new. But it worked really well and it made a lot of money. This has led to others creating canon movies (jjk0, episode nagi, haikyu dumpster battle, Reze). While some of them would have been better as a season, they all were successful and made a lot of money for the studios. I think studios realizes they can spend a little bit more during development to release it as a movie and get a lot more money. We'll see more shows as movies instead of a seqson. I can also see studios influencing the manga authors to shorten story arcs so they fit in as a movie (Reze just found a sweet spot of how many chapters can fit to make a good movie).
Curious to know everyones opinions and what other consequential moments come to mind.
Starting from oldest to most recent:
1. Dragon Ball Evolution (positive impact): A terrible movie but it was the tipping point to get Toriyama back to the series and get new content. It started out with OVA and then movies to eventual the dragon ball super manga and series. And the bigger impact it did was that it brought in so many older fans back into the anime world. Dragon ball is by no means a perfect anime, but it's fun, nostalgic and popular. Let's not forget crunchy roll being down almost every Saturday night during the ToP arc and the outdoor watch parties hosted across the world!
2. Attack on Titan seasonal (positive impact): I think when it was announced that attack on Titan would be made in seasons was a pretty new take at that time. Before anime series would continue and when it was close to catching up to the manga they would have to take breaks or introduce fillers. By splitting into seasons, the shows stay true to the source material and maintains quality. And now that seasonal shows are normalized, we're getting more an anime. It's good for the audience, but I admit, it does add pressure to the studios, so neg impact on them.
3. Demon Slayer Mugen Train being a movie (negative impact): When they announced that instead of season 2, they were going to make a movie instead, that was a very new concept. Typically movies used to be fillers, just for fun content, but a movie that's actually cannon was fairly new. But it worked really well and it made a lot of money. This has led to others creating canon movies (jjk0, episode nagi, haikyu dumpster battle, Reze). While some of them would have been better as a season, they all were successful and made a lot of money for the studios. I think studios realizes they can spend a little bit more during development to release it as a movie and get a lot more money. We'll see more shows as movies instead of a seqson. I can also see studios influencing the manga authors to shorten story arcs so they fit in as a movie (Reze just found a sweet spot of how many chapters can fit to make a good movie).
Curious to know everyones opinions and what other consequential moments come to mind.
Commentaires
What do you think seasons are?
The boruto thing, the series being hell bent on not including old gen charecters,
Unrealistic powerscaling
Filler cannon bullshit
I will also say that *Mugen Train* printing money was the opposite of a bad thing. Outside of franchise movies, it is the reason why producers have been open to so many new films this decade even if they're more on the experimental side. Arguably, if *Mugen Train* didn't exist, then anime would be worse off as it would be missing the one format that's hard carrying it these days artistically.
This wasn't even remotely novel.
> they all were successful and made a lot of money for the studios
Most of them don't make a ton for the studios. The production companies are where most of the money is going.
The one negative might be that it means a lot of series are making movies, including series that don't have the popularity to have a wide release. I would have loved to see Zombieland Saga, but it would have been something like a 5 hour roundtrip drive to the nearest theater that had it, which I think was only going to have it for like a couple of showings. And it always feels like it takes FOREVER for them to get a streaming release.