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Why don't they make anime like Cowboy Bebop anymore?

Alabaster Spectrum wrote:

Why don't they make anime like Cowboy Bebop anymore?

Yeah see this is the problem with the anime community now because I literally never said that anywhere and it's neither funny nor clever to claim I did and simplify everything down to a point. I could practically do an essay on how the 4chan sort of hegemony has come to define the discourse of the modern anime fan on the internet and how that has arguably contributed just as much to why things are the way they are now and just kind of unappealing but I figure it'd fall on death ears. People are just too cynical and insincere now and the kind of thing I do where I just try to put into words how I actually feel about things and not just to get a rise out of people seems to be frowned upon. It's made it really easy to leave more than a few communities already without many if any regrets.

... Eh... Blues Drive Monster~, have you read what he wrote?
He's saying it looks like any other project from Shaft.

I know it's from NisiOisin, but damn, they could have gone with a different style; this just feel like another Monogatari anime.

It makes this whole production looks dull, boring, and there's no personality to it.

I would have loved if they kept the style of the original novel.

... Eh... Blues Drive Monster~, have you read what he wrote?
He's saying it looks like any other project from Shaft.

I know it's from NisiOisin, but damn, they could have gone with a different style; this just feel like another Monogatari anime.

It makes this whole production looks dull, boring, and there's no personality to it.

I would have loved if they kept the style of the original novel.
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It's literally called the Nonsense Series and that's the sort of stuff that's the enduring ideal for 2010's anime now it's kind of official.

It's almost barely worth joking about how every Shaft anime (and really lots of anime but more on that later) looks and sounds virtually the same now and are homogenized down to a science of visual, sound profile and character design appeal. Honestly I don't think anyone could be faulted for just automatically assuming this is another part of the now beaten to death Monogatari series at first glance that past it's point of freshness both in style and story to tell years ago. In fact I just assume that's all on purpose for sales reasons. That and get Kajiura and Yuuki Aoi in there because that will remind people of Madoka and that was popular too even though her overly serious Madoka Magica sounding music doesn't seem to fit any of the cuts used for the trailer at all. Really hard not to be cynical about Aniplex anime on a daily basis and how homogenized and cookie cutter they've made just about everything to do with the scene and Shaft looks like it's going nowhere interesting fast after a respectable original hit with the Madoka TV series. Thought the movie was awful by the way and very much in the cynically commercial vein of the post success Aniplex hegemony of how to run a production.

Nothing new at this point though. I honestly will never understand how so many people can just go for streamlined appeal light novel fast food type stuff like this time after time season after season year after year but I'm obviously just getting too old and tired of every popular anime featuring the same exact sets of people and styles now and it's kind of even getting boring pointing it out and by this point I think enough people that would even care have long since seen it too and come to the same conclusions I have.

It's just too obviously all the same thing to me and pumped out too fast and too cynically commercially and stuff that I never really liked all that much in the first place for reasons I guess not everybody can appreciate but make it hard for me to care anymore as a fan of 20 years. I'll probably be signing off from this community entirely very soon as with 2016 which was an observational year for me fast closing out there's just no sign of it changing or breaking out of the cycle and it not being the most popular and sought after sort of thing from anime anymore.

I get it it's readily popular and profitable but just not for me anymore. Maybe I'll do what I've done before and check out for a few years like I did around the mid 90's, come back and see if literally anything has changed and if Aniplex still dominates the industry with it's boring formulas and get rich quick combination schemes centered around working the otaku fanatic angle.

Alabaster Spectrum wrote:

It's literally called the Nonsense Series and that's the sort of stuff that's the enduring ideal for 2010's anime now it's kind of official. It's almost barely worth joking about how every Shaft anime (and really lots of anime but more on that later) looks and sounds virtually the same now and are homogenized down to a science of visual, sound profile and character design appeal. Honestly I don't think anyone could be faulted for just automatically assuming this is another part of the now beaten to death Monogatari series at first glance that past it's point of freshness both in style and story to tell years ago. In fact I just assume that's all on purpose for sales reasons. That and get Kajiura and Yuuki Aoi in there because that will remind people of Madoka and that was popular too even though her overly serious Madoka Magica sounding music doesn't seem to fit any of the cuts used for the trailer at all. Really hard not to be cynical about Aniplex anime on a daily basis and how homogenized and cookie cutter they've made just about everything to do with the scene and Shaft looks like it's going nowhere interesting fast after a respectable original hit with the Madoka TV series. Thought the movie was awful by the way and very much in the cynically commercial vein of the post success Aniplex hegemony of how to run a production. Nothing new at this point though. I honestly will never understand how so many people can just go for streamlined appeal light novel fast food type stuff like this time after time season after season year after year but I'm obviously just getting too old and tired of every popular anime featuring the same exact sets of people and styles now and it's kind of even getting boring pointing it out and by this point I think enough people that would even care have long since seen it too and come to the same conclusions I have. It's just too obviously all the same thing to me and pumped out too fast and too cynically commercially and stuff that I never really liked all that much in the first place for reasons I guess not everybody can appreciate but make it hard for me to care anymore as a fan of 20 years. I'll probably be signing off from this community entirely very soon as with 2016 which was an observational year for me fast closing out there's just no sign of it changing or breaking out of the cycle and it not being the most popular and sought after sort of thing from anime anymore. I get it it's readily popular and profitable but just not for me anymore. Maybe I'll do what I've done before and check out for a few years like I did around the mid 90's, come back and see if literally anything has changed and if Aniplex still dominates the industry with it's boring formulas and get rich quick combination schemes centered around working the otaku fanatic angle.

Tl;Dr Blah, blah, good points, blah, blah, the same problems every media has had since the dawn of time, blah blah, justification of your own superior opinion.

Seriously, this wall of text manages to smother every good point you have with a hearty dose of elitism and a failure to understand how media has always developed.

Let's start on your good points. Yes, this anime would have been more interesting if it had stuck closer to the novel style and it would have been nice to see shaft do that. Yes, anime looking the same is a problem, but I don't think it's any more or less one than any medium with a 'style' which is to say, all of them. It's worth mentioning but ultimately its pointless to complain about like this because it's inevitable.

Yes more anime is being pumped out faster with less care being given to them - another by product of a bigger industry and hard to apply to something which isn't even out yet

Now moving on - it's entirely your fault if you don't find mainstream light novel adaptions interesting yet continue to watch them. The responsibility is on you to find the series which interest you and filter out the trash. The popularity of something had never been a good indicator of quality.

Looking at Shaft specifically - the idea that they are 'milking' Monogatari is [expletive] laughable. Oh no, they are completely animating a series, how evil. They are 'milking' Kizumonogatari - that shouldn't be 3 movies at all, but the series as a whole? They said they would do this like 5 years ago. Does all their stuff look the same? There's certainly similarities but this can be said for almost every studio.

Kyoani stuff looks like kyoani, trigger looks like trigger and shaft looks like shaft - you can tell them all apart pretty easily. Still, shows like Sangatsu no lion do not look like their usual style. Kofuku graffiti was different as it was more mainstream and the kizu movies are noticeable different...so your points feel a bit moot to be honest.

Again, you had good points but hid them under layers and layers of pointless rant about the anime industry - most of which could apply to any industry.

Kyoani stuff looks like kyoani, trigger looks like trigger and shaft looks like shaft - you can tell them all apart pretty easily. Still, shows like Sangatsu no lion do not look like their usual style. Kofuku graffiti was different as it was more mainstream and the kizu movies are noticeable different...so your points feel a bit moot to be honest.

I liked Katanagatari, but this really isn't convincing me that it's not just another harem.

When was the last time Shaft did the SZS style, though, 2012? The only thing from recent years Shaft has done you can say was actually in a different style was... er, that Hidamari Sketch special in 2013?