poi-chan got kind of hot tbh, albeit she got bigger and that’s a disappointment
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Isn’t that what is slowly happening to anime anyhow with moe and moe moe is being commissioned alongside of cgdct whereas actiony stuff is turning more and more out like Berserk’s extreme overuse of cgi?
I’d have to say no. Moe is growing and growing but action isn’t dead or anything, nor is it really “dying” as much as just not being the only kind of anime really made anymore. It’s still popular and holds more mainstream appeal even in Japan. Moe’s profitability banks on the Japanese Otaku fanbase instead of widespread appeal, which is
always more reliable than the general audience in terms of making something profitable.
Basically this:
Or like Virgil said a while back, except without sort of realizing the insanity is why fans of stuff we like is absolutely dominating the market right now, while fans like him is why the medium continues to become more inaccessible to them:
And they’re so insane that one of them actually bought 800 copies of Shonen Jump just to supply votes for his waifu. And even voted for said waifu in online polls literally thousands of times just so his waifu could win. (Note:Someone in Japan actually did this.) And the rest of the fanbase congratulate him for being so dedicated instead of the more reasonable option:Staying away from him and calling a mental hospital. And everyone who hates Kousuke’s manga are extremely intelligent and sane by contrast.
Anime has become a lot more diverse, so naturally that kind of anime isn’t as big as it was because it isn’t pretty much monopolizing the entire industry like it was during the boom and whatnot. Doesn’t mean it’s dead, the way the industry has shaped up just isn’t as friendly to fans of it and therefore creators of it.
Really, people forget that there was a time when the anime industry was so oversaturated with generic shounen or seinen or just action-based anime in general that it makes the ocean of CGDCT and H/E look like a puddle in comparison. It used to be the only thing ever made, really, which is exactly what they want and why I hate that type of fan as much as I do. They’re just too stupid to realize they’ll never keep up with us by banking on widespread appeal, because the market is heavily geared towards obsessive fans right now. It’s why fuckin’ PVCs cost 170 bucks or so - because anime industry is centered around whaling now, and a single whale makes more money than an entire school of little fish
. Take a hunk of electric conduit, carve it up and paint it, make 1,000 or less, and price them absurdly high. People like you & me will buy it. Take a piece of rubber and make a keychain out of it for almost nothing and sell it for 30. Fucking
cell phone straps or little charm thingies can run at 60 or so. People like you & me will buy it. 50 bucks for a DVD with like, 4 episodes on it, and 200 for the whole series? Sold. Makes more money for them than anything like just owning a CR membership or something could ever hope to provide.
The opposites won’t go past that most of the time, though. At most they’ll just buy the manga and have a CR subscription and think they’re actually contributing something that way, even though they’re really still incredibly small time to the point of insignificance.
They’ll either have to swallow their false sense of pride and start becoming as crazy as we are or just keep watching themselves die off. The industry is very heavily geared towards physical sales recouping costs.