4/27/2024 0 Comments Fall 2018 anime in a nutshellThe past (and next few) schedules are shockingly homogeneous by historical standards. And what we’re seeing in anime in 2018 (and announced for 2019) is the result. It seems as if most production committees looking at a potential series have a formula to determine whether it’s CGDCT enough to fund – a “Moeficient” if you will. But the damage being done to the diversity of anime as a medium here is huge. I know all these cute girls doing cute things shows are not created equal – duly noted. The parasites are killing the host, and when it dies these bloodsuckers will be forced to find a new victim to drain – but parasites don’t generally ease off out of concern for their host. Too many people are making too much money off the current system for it to change. And anime starves – it starves creatively, and the animators who create it are treated as virtual slaves. All of them dominate the decision-making process when new titles are greenlit. Record companies, LN publishers, seiyuu agencies, idol agencies – all of them skim most of the income from anime before it ever reaches the studios that produce it. The influx of cash from the likes of Netflix and Amazon to the studios hasn’t materialized (who could have predicted). Some in the industry – among them quite influential creators – have sounded this alarm. Ultimately, one truth becomes more and more inescapable – as long as the production committee system dominates, anime is doomed to a gradual creative death. At least these aren’t LN adaptations (fall has too many of those, too) but they still generally cater to the reduced attention span syndrome that’s dominated anime more and more since light novels really exploded as a source material. We’ve seen good shows come through this route, but they’re the exception. And frankly, I don’t consider it a positive for anime on the whole. This is a trend I was commenting on as early as last year, but it really seems to have intensified in 2018. I’m also noticing more new series based on games – especially cellphone games – than ever before. The most sobering thought for me is that the shows here are the ones I could actually convince myself to preview – the bulk of the schedule is even worse. And there’s no one series that I’m anticipating as intensely as I did Planet With and Hi Score Girl this season (and after those two shows, this season is pretty darn soft). Everything else is either a sleeper, a total shot in the dark or a reach based on one positive element that stands out (plus one intriguing oddity). And of those, it’s really only a sequel – Golden Kamuy – and maybe one new series that have me genuinely stoked. I pegged 15 series for this preview, but I had to lower the bar about as much as I ever have in order to to do so. On balance, though, I can hardly remember a season with less that truly excites me. But going in, this coming season looks like anything but the one that’s going to redeem 2018 in anime.Īs with winter, spring and summer there are certainly standouts on the schedule. It’s also the last chance for the year to be salvaged – and given that the first three seasons of 2018 have hardly been stellar, that aspect is all the more critical this year. After spring it has the largest number of shows (though this season seems to have fewer series than the last few fall schedules), and sometimes there’s a bit of a reflexive drift towards more substantial material as series that were deemed too “serious” for summer get pushed back three months. To be able to do so would give me an immense amount of pleasure.įall is one of the seasons we count on pretty heavily in any given anime year. A post that’s brimming with hope for the new season, one which seems fit to bursting with potential. I really want to write a season preview that’s glowingly positive.
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