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NEWS: ONE's Mob Psycho 100 Manga Ends on Friday

Huh, that's funny. I assumed that One Punch Man would end first as it's the longer running of the two. Also I doubt that Bones would have gone to such efforts of making some of the best animation of the decade if it was only meant to be an manga advertisement.

A lot of people are making pretty major assumptions about why anime is made. It's not just to sell manga, especially not today, when streaming plays such a big role, and series can often be very successful on their own. Mob Psycho 100 was a hit by itself. Further noteworthy is that the manga publisher isn't even on the production committee, so assuming they were the reason this series was made in the first place is wrong.

Zeino wrote:

Huh, that's funny. I assumed that One Punch Man would end first as it's the longer running of the two. Also I doubt that Bones would have gone to such efforts of making some of the best animation of the decade if it was only meant to be an manga advertisement.

Why wouldn't they? Whether the series is a one cour manga advertisement, an original, or anything else, Bones would always want to put out the best possible project(they are a studio who subsists on contracts, so having a reputation for providing high quality work is important regardless of the content or purpose).
The reason Mob was as good looking as it was was literally because Minami, in his own words, wanted to "one up" OPM(amusingly, many of the same people worked on both shows).

You act like Bones has any say in whether a second season gets made.

People forget why anime is even made in the first place when it adapts from a manga.

dark13 wrote:

People forget why anime is even made in the first place when it adapts from a manga.

By that logic, they shouldn't be making the live action series either since it's also based on a now-completed manga.

Takkun4343 wrote:

G S Palmer wrote: Hopefully this doesn't mean no second season, but it probably does. Too bad, because personally, I enjoyed this series a lot more than One Punch Man. So you're saying because the manga is ending while the creator's still alive... that means absolutely no season 2. What.

Yes. I don't know how you somehow missed this but anime from finished manga only happens when it's extremely famous or some sort of anniversary project. This is because anime is made in part to sell manga- and when the manga is done, there is no more manga to sell. A S2 is extremely unlikely at this point.

Huh, that's funny. I assumed that One Punch Man would end first as it's the longer running of the two. Also I doubt that Bones would have gone to such efforts of making some of the best animation of the decade if it was only meant to be an manga advertisement.

Honestly, the notion of dismissing most anime as mere "advertisements" for their literary counterparts has always struck me as intensely dismissive to the amount of passion and hard work that often goes into bringing something to life in a different medium like that. Imagine spending entire months of your life working on amazing cuts in a show like Mob only for some randies to label your hard work, blood, sweat and tears as an ad.

Why wouldn't they? Whether the series is a one cour manga advertisement, an original, or anything else, Bones would always want to put out the best possible project(they are a studio who subsists on contracts, so having a reputation for providing high quality work is important regardless of the content or purpose).
The reason Mob was as good looking as it was was literally because Minami, in his own words, wanted to "one up" OPM(amusingly, many of the same people worked on both shows).

there are handful of shows I want to come back because they were passion projects but that's never going to happen because in the end anime adaption = advertisement
your comparing how western advertise products to how japan dose it which imo every country dose things differently just because the west advertise something that's like 15 secs doesn't mean japan will to Mob 100 is another manga series that ended just like any other and a season 2 anime happening is the same as any other series that ended just like it cancelled,natural ending doesn't matter ends are ends that's all there is to it,explain why so many studios ( like Bones ) are doing their own original anime nowadays, its so they can make the maximum profit, lot of you seem to forget studios are still business money doesn't come out of a rainbow.

here is a good example animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-06-29/the-devil-is-a-part-timer-novel-creator-explains-why-anime-has-no-2nd-season/.118136

Damn man, you too? I guess I shouldn't expect people to read every comment in a thread, but it sucks when the same misinformation continues to spread while you're trying to disperse it.

Anyway, it's literally their job to spend months of their life working on things that sometimes end up being ads. To a high level animator working on a gorgeous project like Mob, producing fantastic individual cuts of animation is its own reward. I guess if it's not clear, what I take issue with isn't your position actually, which I agree with, but rather that you're using the fact that Mob looks so good to be your reason that it couldn't possibly be a manga advertisement(it's not a manga advertisement, but that's not the reason why). I sympathize with disliking the connotation of calling something simply an "ad" though, and as much as dark13 thinks so, not every manga adaptation is an advertisement, especially not in a case like Mob where the manga publisher was not even on the production committee, and thus has nothing to do with why this show got made!(I really hope they read my comment this time)
Anime is indeed created with a lot of passion and people need to look a little more closely at the details for each series before they make sweeping statements and generalizations about why and how it happens. It's very much a case by case basis. Mob wasn't made because the manga publisher wanted to sell more books, it was produced and funded by Bones(animation studio), BS Fuji(television network), Warner Brothers Entertainment, Klockworx Co, and Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures. None of whom are involved with the manga directly.
(And now, after calling people out for assuming that Mob must be a passion project because it looks so great, I'll ironically note that given the things that Minami has said about it, as well as the fact that Bones is on the production committee, it likely was indeed a passion project.[my point still stands though, not everything that looks great is a passion project, and vice versa. Studios are always doing their best to put out good work so they can stay in business and make a name for themselves])
Sorry, this is just a mess of a rant now.

I believe that if something looks great then it's an undeniable passion project, but that of course doesn't exclude it from also being something is a business commission. That's one of the great aspects of it, that people can express their passions through these productions while it also being a business as well as their jobs and livelihood. And yeah, we could get into the separate discussion over animator wages and yearly salaries and all that, but that's an entirely different can of worms.