Forum - View topicInterview: Danny Choo [2011-07-13]
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BorgmanJayce
 Posts: 298 Location: Hades via UK |
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No matter whether you like the guy or not (He's like Marmite in that you love or hate him), he's got a point in that certain anime fans shouldn't force their views on what anime should be on others.
I like all kinds of anime from shoujo to hentai to moe (except yaoi) and I personally have no problem with fanservice. A good analogy would be something like this: Say you want to buy a car, but there's only one type and one color available. That means that there wouldn't be a wider choice if any at all, whereas with most things like movies, anime, manga and videogames, there is a wide choice in all kinds of genres. With Mr Choo, I'm not bothered about his personal life and I don't know if it's true or not whether he screwed over people with his Otacool books, but at least he's made people happy with what he's done and he's stepped out of his father's shadow in his own right doing something that he loves. At the end of the day, it's better to do something that you love than spend the rest of your life being miserable and conforming to what society says you should do or dress when you're a certain age (the only exception being that you have to dress a certain way for work or on special occasions) |
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CatzCradle
 Posts: 230 Location: Canada |
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I haven't heard of anything like that before. Do you mind telling me what the whole Otacool book thing was about?
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BorgmanJayce
Posts: 298 Location: Hades via UK |
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Journal Link about Otacool 2 controversy |
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Melanchthon
 Posts: 550 Location: Northwest from Here |
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This is a valid point, and I know I've been guilty of it in the past, but anime, like any other fandom, is a very emotional experience and people get fired up over it (look at sports talk radio, for example). But I had an ulterior motive: I feared that anime would become like the America comic industry, a shallow, repetitive regurgitation of ideas and characters, locked in the conventions of it's own convoluted past until in can no longer sustain itself and reboots the entire franchise. When the bubble was bursting, there were two options: expand to try to get a larger audience of people that could function in normal human society or double down on the core otaku market. And I feared that the growing number of moe shows were trying to tap a well that had already run dry. Even otaku have budget limits, and the emphasis on producing shows for them could have bankrupted the entire industry. Fortunately, the industry finally seemed to realize that, but it was looking grim for a bit. There is nothing wrong with moe shows, but a healthy market needs diversity of choice, and that was my main complaint. |
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Shay Guy
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The phrase "nobody's forcing you to watch" gets 22,000 Google hits; "nobody's forcing you to read" gets 36,900. I'm not too fond of the phrase. It seems to basically be a deflection of criticism, akin to "don't like, don't read" (6,590,000 hits).
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asimpson2006
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It is not a deflection of criticism. If you don't like a genre of shows or manga you don't have to read it at all. I have no interest in BL so I don't read BL manga or watch BL shows.
I don't like it either when anime fans force their views on others. I actually don't like that in anything. People are allowed to have their opinions on what ever and they are entitled to have them, but I don't want that viewpoint shoved down my throat. |
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Zin5ki
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I was not of the understanding that titles were acquired in R1 through deals such as this. Should costs associated with licensing be proportional to eventual sales, it would be expected that acquisitions of older or more esoteric titles would be more frequent than they are. |
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BeanBandit
Posts: 303 Location: Canada |
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Danny Choo is harmless but a joke nonetheless.
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Scormio
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Quoted for its truthfulness. This was a pretty cool interview, and defintiely an interesting read. Should be a required read for some forum-goers... Also, I commend the interviewer for asking good questions. Having just taken a class on this, I can appreciate the way you led into some of your questions. Also, since when is bollocks a common word to use outside the UK? |
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lelliel
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Danny's from London if I remember correctly. |
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Scormio
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Makes perfect sense then, 
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ArsenicSteel
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I don't know who he is. |
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PBsallad
 Posts: 338 Location: Phoenix |
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It's more like... The company has to pay an initial license fee and then they give a percentage of the sales to Japan. I think Danny was just saying a US company decides on much they want to sell a product for. Even then I have a feeling Japan has a say in that matter from time to time. |
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enurtsol
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Just bears repeating. Anybody believe that?
That's what I keep telling everyone - variety. 
Get inspirations from all over the places, not just a few, to prevent inbreeding. |
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infjeff
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For some reason this guy just rubs me the wrong way. I'm not even anti-moe or anti-fanservice, but I like variety in my anime.
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