well, he was talking about the future of anime so i wanted to throw in a bit of my wishes. I understand why people would drop the novel since it takes time to develop, but how it grows and escalates over time is exactly what i find good about it.
Since it completely flew over your head; the argument was that in general, less adults watch anime now than before — a possible correlation could be the fact that these new animes just aren’t as highly rated anyway.
You do know what shonen is and how it has been the most mainstream demographic in anime since it's inception right? If anything more adults are watching anime now then before as you have an entire generation that started 10 to 25 years ago and are now 40ish.
Fair enough, I didn’t word it exactly right.
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wtf is happening in higurashi? I was expecting a continuation of the perfect day's ending but we get fucking hammu who disappeared a while ago and random shit wtf
No one knows what Ryukishi is thinking anymore.
There was a small sub-group of individuals in the early-mid 90's (mostly those going to conventions for fansubs) that were adults into the hobby. It seemed the younger audience that was watching anime in the 90's, were the ones who were looking for TMS or similar anime which would run on network T.V. or sometimes on Sci-Fi Saturdays. The adults were the crowd that were hitting the video stores in the 90's for anime and they were the minority as titles were limited, mostly dubs at rental stores, and it didn't have such a big appeal to older teens or adults at that time.Happosai do you remember any adults watching anime in the 90s? I remember mostly kids to teens watched it with a few adults interested in it versus now that is far more mainstream and I personally know scores of weathered people that watch animation.
Yeah, it was mostly the same here as well. I have no idea where he got "anime used to be aimed at adults" from. Specially considering the titles he posted outside of one were made for young males. In the US anyway. Yes.
I can't validate the argument that anime used to be for adults. Yeah, in the 80's and 90's there were some really violent or beefy OVAs that came out but during those same decades...there was plenty of adolescent and children's anime as well. That hasn't much changed in terms of demographics for the span of titles of anime being made today. If you were looking at anime-like games...a children's title would be closer to Harvest Moon and Cahterine being on the adult side. Same goes for anime today in general. Art styles and certain methods have changed but everything else is pretty standard. Not sure what that guy was getting at either.
There'll always be the ones saying stuff from their time was better. Back in the middle 2000's there was no shortage of people claiming modern anime was shit and the 90s were much better.
Unfortunately, I was one of those guys until recently. I noticed how much still having an active anime culture is great as I've noticed such a decline in Western animation. Someone had to pick up the torch. In the mid-2000's it was bad due to much of the 90's anime still making it to the U.S./Europe for the first time while new anime was being released. ADV and CPM were localizing and releasing a lot of 90's anime well on into 2003-05 for the first time on DVD and marketing it as new. So, there was a big rift between the two eras as a result. That's sorta died down now and I've noticed more who will watch both modern and older anime hand-in-hand.
Naruto is p bad. But that's just cause it isn't aimed at me. What are genres and demographics again?
I don't like it either, but then again i was never too into these long running shounen anime. Only liked them as a kid watching Dragon Ball and Inuyasha.
In Brazil it used to be a pain, it was hard to find PT-BR subs and we had to rely on official dubs that were often incomplete or censored. Thankfully it started to get better as the 2000s went, though outside of mainstream stuff, most of the translation was still in english.
I spoiled myself with the later chapters and apparently Lyle still loses to his younger sister even with the power of all his seven ancestors combined, Lyle gangs up on his younger sister with his harem combined to finally defeat her and he got raped by his harem at the end. Not the kind of development that is worth reading 200+ chapters. There some really good Light Novel/Web Novel series out there, but this is not one of them.
Its not just about how it ends though (i also had spoiled myself with it), I like the how the characters develop and grow over time. Lyle starts out as a unlikeable wimp but by the influence of his ancestors he becomes more and more interesting to watch, having clear growth as a person. It starts out as small issues as adventurers until it all escalates to full blow continental conflicts. At the beginning he just wants to marry Novem until eventually he's just casually seducing new women and growing an harem for the sake of obtaining political power and war potential.
At that point fuck your friend, make that motherfucker drink bleach.
There are people who are more up-to-date on when newer Lupin releases come out. From what I understand, it's under the Lupin name but I'm not expecting to see much of Lupin himself. Seems to be like a personal bio of Fujiko...that's what interested me and the fact that someone here may have seen it.
Good for those who enjoyed it. But when I compare it with my favorites, I need some more momentum then being slightly different from typical fantasy to justify reading 200+ chapters. These are how my favorite LN/WN ended.
It gets better now that Emilia is done at least.
The original Higurashi is on netflix i believe. Might be worth a watch
