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Glordit
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| Quote: | | My only fear now is how david production will maintain this level of quality as the series go |
Easy, just don't push for weekly releases and rather do 40 ~ 60 minute episodes every month or so. Most people will say it will kill "hype" but rather that, than an unfinished product.
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BadNewsBlues
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2026 3:21 pm |
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| Glordit wrote: | | Quote: | | My only fear now is how david production will maintain this level of quality as the series go |
Easy, just don't push for weekly releases and rather do 40 ~ 60 minute episodes every month or so. Most people will say it will kill "hype" but rather that, than an unfinished product. |
Given some of the OVAs I’ve seen which can have roughly the same release schedule but of course not the same production schedule that came out looking cheap or unfinished I wouldn’t say that would be any better.
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Alphael
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2026 4:15 pm |
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| Glordit wrote: | | Easy, just don't push for weekly releases and rather do 40 ~ 60 minute episodes every month or so. Most people will say it will kill "hype" but rather that, than an unfinished product. |
The "hype" argument never made sense to me. It's an adaption of a manga that's like 20 years old. Unless you're someone who only watches what the Current Popular Thing is and never watches anything older than a week because you need to be a part of social media conversation it shouldn't matter. Another reason why 'fandoms's hould die off. Give me a quality product. Finished. I'll binge it. I don't care about 'hype'
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MarshalBanana
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2026 5:24 pm |
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[quote="Alphael"] | Glordit wrote: | | The "hype" argument never made sense to me. It's an adaption of a manga that's like 20 years old. Unless you're someone who only watches what the Current Popular Thing is and never watches anything older than a week because you need to be a part of social media conversation it shouldn't matter. |
The whole thing is very strange, you also hear it about platforms and promotion. It has to be on a very popular platform and being heavily promoted upon release. Otherwise, it supposedly disappears forever.
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MFrontier
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2026 10:37 pm |
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I feel like you can feel the absolute culmination of David Productions work on JoJo in Steel Ball Run.
I'm not sure how the rest of the series will be released, but I will be eagerly awaiting it.
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Vanadise
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2026 11:10 pm |
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| Alphael wrote: | | Unless you're someone who only watches what the Current Popular Thing is and never watches anything older than a week because you need to be a part of social media conversation it shouldn't matter. |
For better or worse, there are a lot of people who only watch things because they hear about them on social media; and because people are more likely to talk about things that are currently airing, that means there's a lot more word of mouth around a series that is airing weekly than one that gets dumped all at once.
And if you're a business that's trying to make money off of a series, that should really matter to you.
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Glordit
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 12:33 am |
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[quote="MarshalBanana"] | Alphael wrote: | | Glordit wrote: | | The "hype" argument never made sense to me. It's an adaption of a manga that's like 20 years old. Unless you're someone who only watches what the Current Popular Thing is and never watches anything older than a week because you need to be a part of social media conversation it shouldn't matter. |
The whole thing is very strange, you also hear it about platforms and promotion. It has to be on a very popular platform and being heavily promoted upon release. Otherwise, it supposedly disappears forever. |
Reddit & MAL think that a show lives and dies by weekly discussions. If no one talks about it, then it's essentially dead.
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Slop Slop no Mi
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 11:55 am |
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| Glordit wrote: | | Reddit & MAL think that a show lives and dies by weekly discussions. If no one talks about it, then it's essentially dead. |
Heck, this past week on social media has opened my eyes that you don't even need to watch the show to be a fan of it. You can just talk about it apparently. 
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Mothy
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 2:21 pm |
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Like it or not, The Zeitgeist is a real thing and being part of it can increase the enjoyment of a given work for a lot of people.
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EmeraldSaucer
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 4:01 pm |
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Feel like a bunch of people here need to brush up on the concept of water cooler television, which existed for decades (and which seasonal TV made the most of when it comes to cliffhangers since Star Trek TNG's Best of Both Worlds, for example). Fiction bringing people together and being enhanced through active discussion is not new, nor is it a matter of "hype" - something that some people are either too young to understand, or that they have forgotten about under the normalization of solipsistic consumption of fiction as disposable product
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penguintruth
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 4:10 pm |
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I'm enjoying it, but SBR doesn't really get great until Scary Monsters shows up. I mostly just liked Pocoloco's luck and Gyro's aura-farming.
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Top Gun
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 12:47 pm |
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| EmeraldSaucer wrote: | | Feel like a bunch of people here need to brush up on the concept of water cooler television, which existed for decades (and which seasonal TV made the most of when it comes to cliffhangers since Star Trek TNG's Best of Both Worlds, for example). Fiction bringing people together and being enhanced through active discussion is not new, nor is it a matter of "hype" - something that some people are either too young to understand, or that they have forgotten about under the normalization of solipsistic consumption of fiction as disposable product |
Seriously. It's like a bunch of people have completely forgotten the basic model that television used from its earliest days up until a single company decided to do something different a decade-plus ago (and it's worth noting that said company has partially backed away from said different model for some of its biggest projects). I have never once understood the desire to plow through a single season of a show in a few hours like a pig face-first in a slop trough and then have nothing new to watch for a solid year or two. Most of the best moments I've had watching anime came from talking about shows on a weekly basis, whether it was watching a few episodes per week with a group of friends or tuning in every Saturday night for the [as] block. "JoJo Fridays" became a beloved meme in the community for years until Netflix killed that with Stone Ocean. Part 6 didn't really click with me at all the first time through, and I think a big part of that was the random stop-start release schedule.
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residentgrigo
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 2:33 pm |
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Part 5 is the only one with noticeable animation quality, outside of the Egypt arc OVAs. Judging overall production values by the pilot is the worst thing you can do, as ep 3 is always the stress test, but so far so outstanding. It's still a limited animation show but far less so than usual, especially with how nightmarish it has to be to animate these designs. The rearrangement of scenes and the as-of-now irrelevant and logical omissions make this a better flowing story than the manga's start. Let's see how stage 2 will fare, as it is one of only 2 quality drops. The incomprehensible Who Shot JJ is No 2, but storytelling and not the plot are the issues there.
If the anime goes on like this, then we know which exact group of people would be perfect for Berserk. In a world without more JoJo to animate, of course.
I saw the debut of Part 1 within 24 hours of the release and have been up to date on the whole manga since 2006. JoJo Fridays only existed for Parts 4 and 5. The first run and at least half of Part 3´s adaptation were obscure as hell outside of Japan. The anime only showed up on Western radars once the Cairo arc was fully underway and the current fanbase essentially grew by binge-watching during the break between Part 4 and 5. JoJo doesn´t need weekly releases or a stable meme economy. What it needs is a consistent and early telegraphed schedule. So far, so bad, but Part 6 would have flopped no matter what. It finished 2 decades ago but still has to find popularity in Japan. What it needed was a Seinen remake, not an anime. Even switching to the more free wheeling Monthy Jump would have helped.
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Gourmet Violence
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| Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2026 8:30 am |
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| residentgrigo wrote: | | So far, so bad, but Part 6 would have flopped no matter what. It finished 2 decades ago but still has to find popularity in Japan. What it needed was a Seinen remake, not an anime. Even switching to the more free wheeling Monthy Jump would have helped. |
Seinen adaptation, eh? That’s a really good idea actually. I mean, it’s a prison story ffs, it definitely should have been seinen.
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