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INTEREST: My Sister, My Writer Credits List Animator with Pseudonym 'Honestly, I'm Screwed'

I'm a fan of the tropes portrayed in this series but the writing is just... bad. really bad.

I can totally understand other people would like it regardless of its glaring faults but unless they were banking on the 'true' fans having deep pockets who would buy the blu rays regardless this series seems... is unlikely to appeal to anyone outside of that very specific niche.

Its a real shame because with some competent editorial changes this could have been a really funny series.

Calsolum wrote:

The money and time that went into this should have been spent looking for a better series.

This is a fallacy that a lot of fans seem to believe in, but it's not how anime production works. There isn't some collective queue of money (& time) waiting to be used, and instead the this series was chosen specifically to be made into anime. It not being adapted would not have resulted in something else being chosen in its place, because that's not how production works. It simply wouldn't have been made, & that money simply wouldn't have been spent.

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I'm sure that sounds cruel but I feel like rejection handled professionally would have served this author better because then he could make his next work better. Who knows maybe people bashing his work now WILL make his next work better.

You're making it sound like the creator was the one responsible for the anime being put into production in the first place, as if they were directly making pitches to anime studios, which is really wrong. Sure, the creator may have been consulted to some extent, but the idea of making an anime likely came about by the publisher, which wanted to help promote sales of the original source material by making anime, i.e. the very reason why anime adaptations of manga/novels/games are made in the first place.

Lmao thats... kinda sad.

i have to wonder WHY this series was okayed in the first place.

I'm a fan of the tropes portrayed in this series but the writing is just... bad. really bad.

I can totally understand other people would like it regardless of its glaring faults but unless they were banking on the 'true' fans having deep pockets who would buy the blu rays regardless this series seems... is unlikely to appeal to anyone outside of that very specific niche.

With that information, I would emphasise that the company needed a more talented gatekeeper or scout or researcher.
Whoever's job it is to look for work that could be adapted should have found something 'better'.
At the very least something with more widespread appeal instead of this very niche and now oversaturated demographic.
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If the end goal of the publisher is money which lets be honest is always the end goal then they I would have chosen something else.
To be frank 'My Sister, My Writer' is bad. Sickingly so.
From a 'general' perspective.
Watching the first few episodes I wanted to meet this author's editor and ask why would you let your company publish this drivel?
Just tell him its bad and then you can suggest to him how he can improve it.
I know it fits a specific niche and that's great but if they company wanted profit then animating a niche title and hoping it becomes the next big thing is not the way to go.

Well, this is what happens when most of the bulk of anime series being produced today is just otaku trash. Then you tell me all Netflix originals released this year were dissapointing, when I tell you that most of those releases were miles better than most anime released elsewhere this season